A Waikato support worker who raped an intellectually disabled man, targeted him due to his mental impairment, a judge found. Gerald Christian Albert is now behind bars serving an 11-year jail term after a jury found the 53-year-old guilty of eight charges including one representative charge of having intercourse with the victim after a trial last year. Albert was sentenced in the Hamilton District Court in November, but his victim was still feeling the effects of what happened to him between 2005 and 2007, his mother said. However, she said both she and her son were pleased with the sentence handed down by Justice Glen Marshall and hoped they could now begin to move on with their lives.
