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The Spinoff: Huge changes to be made at Oranga Tamariki following review into child uplift process
Oranga Tamariki’s review into their own practices of uplifting newborn babies, spurred by a Newsroom investigation from June, has been released today. Here’s why it happened and what it says.
Newsroom: Oranga Tamariki overhaul after damning uplift report
RNZ: Oranga Tamariki inquiry: 'serious consequences' over attempted removal of baby
Newsroom: Uplift mother gets second child back
RNZ: Abuse inquiry just scratches the surface
A warning - some listeners may find some of the content in this podcast distressing.
The first tranche of public hearings in Auckland into the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care ends today.
There’ve been so many dramas on the road to get the inquiry underway, that there’s confusion as to what it’s actually covering. For that reason the sessions have been described as “contextual”.
RNZ reporter Katie Scotcher has been there for the duration. She says over the last two weeks of evidence the public should now have a clear idea of what exactly the inquiry is all about.
Stuff: Evidence building against the state and faith-based institutions alleging a cover up
RNZ: Abuse in care inquiry: 'Arduous process' to reach ultimate context
RNZ: Abuse survivors not compensated enough, Commission hears
RNZ: Pacific voice: Gang member 'lost ability to love' after state abuse
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RNZ: Royal Commission hearings: Children's Commissioner says state care has failed
RNZ: State care institutions central to early gang formation - academic
RNZ: Play time over: How Kiwi kids lost their freedom to roam
New Zealand's population is nearing five million, but are the growing numbers shrinking children's opportunities for independence? Teresa Cowie reports.
The Spinoff: More young people are taking antidepressants – and that’s not necessarily a bad thing
Rates of antidepressant medication dispensing are on the rise among young people, according to a new study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today. What can this tell us about our prescribing habits and the demographics missing out?
Newsroom: New sexual violence data tells same, bleak story
The MeToo movement has put a spotlight on sexual assault, but new statistics show not much has changed in terms of outcomes. Laura Walters reports.
1 News Now: Experienced lawyer says sex abuse conviction rates point to broken system
Stuff: Majority of sexual violence incidents reported to police are children or young people
RNZ: Young offenders, families need long-term support - judge
Principal Youth Court Judge John Walker wants more support for youth offenders when they finish a sentence.
Latest figures show 90 percent of the most serious young offenders will be back before the courts within two years.
These offenders received the toughest penalties imposed by the Youth Court, with some being placed in a youth justice facility for up to six months.
Judge Walker said the young people who received these sentences were almost always dealing with deep trauma.
Scoop: NZ Legal System Can Perpetuate Financial Abuse
Press Release: Auckland University of Technology
New evidence from Auckland University of Technology (AUT) shows changes to the Family Court are needed to help protect women and children from financial abuse. The findings follow recommendations in July by New Zealand’s Law Commission to change the Relationships (Property) Act.
Financial abuse happens when someone uses financial resources to control and terrorise another person. Often, this form of abuse occurs within intimate relationships. It is more commonly perpetrated by men against women, with devastating consequences for women and their families.
In 2018, AUT Senior Lecturer in Finance Dr Ayesha Scott interviewed 15 women about their experiences of financial abuse after the breakdown of their relationship. Scott says the findings show the importance of this research.
RNZ: Rising rates of youth hospitalised after self-harming
Hundreds more young people are being admitted to hospital with self-inflicted injuries.
There were 3081 hospitalisations of young people under the age of 20 for self-harm last year - up more than 200 on the year before.
The vast majority of those hurting themselves were girls and rangatahi Māori made up about 30 percent of those ending up in hospital.
Youth mental health campaigner Lucy McSweeny said it was time for urgent action.
1 News Now: Netsafe calls on adults to have direct conversations with young people around online safety
Online safety organisation Netsafe has called on adults to have conversations with young people around the dangers of being online after an increasing number fall victim to suspected paedophiles.
It comes after police revealed two girls from Hawke's Bay are among thousands of children who have been targeted by, or fallen victim to, a global sex abuse network.
Police are not ruling out others coming forward after a 21-year-old Irish man allegedly used false identities on social media sites to persuade children to send in explicit photographs of themselves in what's believed to be the UK's biggest catfish child abuse investigation.
NZ Herald: Mother fears having to leave her children in NZ due to 'flaw' in immigration laws
A domestic violence survivor in Queenstown may have to leave her young children behind if she is forced from New Zealand.
The case highlights a flaw in the country's immigration law, observers say.
The woman's application for a residence visa - under the domestic violence category - was turned down in September because she could not prove she would face stigma in her home country or be unable to support herself financially there.
NZ Herald: Man serving life sentence for murdering partner Marie Harlick loses appeal
A man jailed for brutally murdering his partner has lost a court appeal after arguing his disadvantaged background should mitigate his tough penalty.
Robert Hohua was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years in December 2017 after being found guilty of the murder of Marie Harlick.
Hohua punched, kicked and stomped his partner to death at her home in Ōpōtiki in November 2016.
Stuff: Preventive detention for rapist who had nickname tattooed on victim's face
A remorseless rapist who had his nickname tattooed on his victim's face has been sentenced to preventive detention.
Jessie Arthur Heke-Gray raped the woman multiple times and subjected her to a mock execution during her prolonged ordeal in Whangarei in 2016.
Justice Christian Whata sentenced Heke-Gray to preventive detention on the rape charge in a hearing on November 1 in the High Court at Whangarei.
The sentence could see the 34-year-old imprisoned for far longer than the minimum non-parole period handed down of seven years and six months.
RNZ: Autistic boy, 5, in hospital twice before death
A five-year-old autistic boy grew up in a household known to police for drug crimes and violence, and turned up to hospital at least twice with injuries before his death in Christchurch in 2015.
Those facts came to light during an unusual court scenario that saw police and the District Health Board cross-examined for hours about what they possibly could have done to prevent Leon Jayet Cole's death from a blow to the head.
Leon's stepfather James Roberts was charged with murder but died before his trial in 2016, prompting the coronial inquest which began looking at the cause of death last year.
Part two, beginning on Monday afternoon, has probed into Leon's stepfather's violent past.
Stuff: Father taunts partner as he beats her in front of their children
A son who watched his intoxicated father repeatedly strike his mother tried desperately to stop the attack.
But Ngira Lawrence Craig paused only to hit the boy, then turn to his then-partner and say: "I love making you cry."
In the Palmerston North District Court on Tuesday, Craig was sentenced to three months home detention and ordered to complete 100 hours of community work after pleading guilty to several domestic violence charges, including assault with intent to injure, assaulting a child and assaulting a female.
