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Department attacked for teen placement
By 3News
Published: 09/19/2008

NEW ZEALAND - The Corrections Department has come under attack for placing a teenage white supremacist in the same cell as a hardened Maori gang member. The result was that the teenager was repeatedly raped. Dean Noble remained defiant as he was sentenced for the raping and bashing the teen today.

Flanked by prison [officers], he called out 'I'm innocent!' during the sentencing. He also had to be ordered to take off his hat. The sentencing focussed on whether or not Noble should get New Zealand's toughest penalty - preventative detention. Crown Prosecutor Pip Currie called for it, saying Noble had more than 60 convictions and was already in jail for assault and kidnapping when he attacked his cellmate at Christchurch prison. Read more.

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