Hilo Man receives 30 years for adolescent sexual assault

A 54-year-old Hilo man was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Friday for the abduction of 2022 and the sexual aggression of a 15-year-old girl who was taken from a beach in West Hawaii to Hilo’s property and agitated on a bus.

The chief judge of the Kona circuit, Wendy Deweese, also ordered Duncan Mahi to serve a mandatory minimum of 20 years in prison.

Mahi negotiated a plea agreement on December 31 with the state. In exchange for his pleading without competition for a number of sexual aggression of the first grade and grade and second, the state rejected the eight remaining accusations of its 11 -numbered indictment.

The rejected rooms include 1st and third degree sexual aggression, methamphetamine traffic, two first -degree robberies and two accusations of terrorist threat of grade I.

The girl told the police that she is with her lover, for 15 years, on Anahoomalu beach, on September 16, 2022, when Mahi robbed them of their phones and $ 50.

She also reported how Mahi forced her to crawl and cover her lover’s legs and hands, pant to her own shirt and cover her head with a towel and tap it. Mahi then kidnapped him at Knifepoint and drove it to his car. He forced him to smoke Meth, made him do sexual acts on him and comforted him as he led to Hilo. He led him to his property, where he shook him in a bus.

The girl convinced him to take her to take food, and she managed to escape from Mahi’s Grasp the next day at 11:26 am September 17, 2022, while she was on an alley near a Hilo restaurant, with the help of the good Samaritans.

Her captain claimed to be the girl’s father, but the witnesses recognized her girl from the Amber Maile alert. A witness took a car photo while running away.

Mahi was arrested at 2:51 pm 17 September 2022, in Hilo.

Deweese told Mahi before meeting his sentence: “Your actions devastated the life of two young people and their families and we cut our community in its center. … …

“You have victimized two young people in a very cruel way, in a way that they will probably not recover fully, in a way that will probably haunt them, their families and their loved ones.”

Deweese told Mahi that the victims “submitted to the state to make you a pleading offer to allow you to avoid the probability of life in prison.”

Deputy prosecutor Kaua Jackson asked the court to consecutive conviction.

Deweese condemned Mahi to the consecutive conviction for the two charges of kidnapping. The 1st grade kidnapping has a sentence of 20 years, while the second degree tax has a period of 10 years, for a total of 30 years.

Deweese pronounced a 20 -year sentence for 1st grade sexual aggression to run at the same time with a 30 -year penalty.

(Mahi was also evaluated a $ 1,515 fee to go to the Crime Victim Compensation Fund.)

The judge declared for the 54 -year -old that he represents “an unacceptable risk of re -examination, unless you are limited for a long time,” citing his violent criminal.

She told her that her behavior is “planned and predatory and not driven by the moment, led by drug use. You had links with zipper. You had tape. You had handcuffs. “

Deweese added that many in the community abuse drugs, “but do not behave as you did. They do not go out and do not stir sexually and kidnap the children. “

She said that her actions “show a deep level of dysfunction, depravity and lack of respect and disregard the rights of others and the community.”

The judge said: “Most importantly, the court has taken into account and respects the position of the victims in this case. And based on it, the Court agrees that your offenses justify a consecutive punishment. Out of respect for the victims, the court was related to that agreement. “

Regarding the plea agreement, which avoids a process that requires victims to testify, said Hawaii County Prosecutor, Kelden Waltjen, in a written statement: “Our office appreciates the victim’s contribution and the importance of well-being of the victim.

“The cases of sexual aggression, especially those involving minors, are some of the most traumatic types of criminal victimization. The victims and their families were consulted and very involved during the pleading negotiations in this case. “

Waltjen praised the good Samaritans Bridge Hartman and Kori Takaki, “whose fast thinking and actions saved life (girl).”

He recognized the “courage and courage” of both victims in this case.

“I hope that today’s conviction will give their families a certain closure and a feeling that justice has been served.

“Hawaii Island is a big island, but a small community,” adding, “we support each other for strength, and that makes us resistant.”

He praised the hard work of deputy prosecutors Kate Perazich and Jackson, the assistance unit of his victim, the Hawaii Police Department, the main detective Steven Grace and the other officers who worked in the case, together with the partners of the federal and state law.

Waltjen thanked the missing children’s center and alert coordinator Amber Maile.