Charlie Toetoe says his son Kharlo-Rae Pirini-Kiel wouldn't be alive to see the new year had it not been for a stranger who helped revive his badly injured child.
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National is ignoring the weight of evidence against enforced military-style camps for young offenders, according to a lawyer who has represented survivors of some of NZ's worst cases of abuse in state care.
Former Kawerau mayor Malcolm Campbell says military-style interventions with youth offenders did work, but did not go far enough - they needed to be followed up with pastoral care.
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