A Masterton man yesterday admitted assaulting his partner's two young daughters after one of the girls gave evidence against him.
The man had denied two representative charges of assault and one of threatening to cause grievous bodily harm to the girls between February 13, 2004, and December 24, 2006.
But at the end of the elder sister's evidence at his trial in Wellington District Court yesterday he admitted the assault charges.
He was discharged on the third count of threatening to cause grievous bodily harm.
He will be sentenced in Wellington District Court on November 24.
Crown prosecutor Dale La Hood had told the jury the man would become angry and aggressive "and take that anger and aggression out on the children".
"He would hit them with a wooden spoon, he would kick and punch them and on one occasion he threw (the younger girl) about her room."
In a 2007 Child, Youth and Family interview played to the court yesterday, the elder girl said she was kicked, hit, smacked and threatened with an axe.
She also saw her younger sister being thrown "from one wall to the other, to the door, to her bed and to the carpet".
But questioned via closed circuit television yesterday, the girl, now 10, said she did not remember the interview but she had told the truth.
Defence lawyer Louise Elder asked the girl if she was confused about some of the details, to which she replied "yeah".
The girl also said that she was never threatened with an axe but she did see the man holding one when he was angry.
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