Sentencing — posting a digital communication — threat to safety — Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015. The defendant appeared for sentence in relation to one charge of posting a digital communication. A woman more than 20 years younger than the defendant had rejected his romantic advances. The defendant over several occasions sent her messages threatening her safety and then created a meme which he posted implying he was going to kidnap and kill her because of her rejection of him. The starting sentence was six months' community detention. This was reduced by one month for the time the defendant had already spent in custody and by a further six weeks for his early guilty plea. This came to a total of three months and two weeks' community detention. He was also ordered to pay the complainant $1000 for emotional harm at a rate of $30 per week. Finally, the defendant was made subject to a condition that he was not allowed access to the internet unless using a WINZ computer at a WINZ office for the purpose of finding a job. Judgment Date: 26 February 2019.