Jarryd Hayne will spend at least three years and eight months in jail. (file pic)
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A jury in March found Hayne guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault which the victim said left her feeling dirty, scared and ashamed .
Hayne must serve a minimum of three years and eight months.
In handing down her sentence, District Court Judge Helen Syme said she found that Hayne was fully aware that the victim was not consenting and went ahead anyway. The reliability and honesty of the victim s evidence was tested at length and in my view, her reliability was not in doubt. She said no several times, Judge Syme said.
Gwyneth Beard, also known as Piwi is 59 and went into care from the age of 11.
Gwyneth Beard.
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Most of the time was spent at the Strathmore Girls Home in Christchurch, but she also spent some time in the Kingslea Home in the same city and a short time at Weymouth in Auckland.
She ended up in care after running away from home.
She describes her time in the secure unit at Strathmore as incarceration. It was like I have been locked up. I was only a child. I look out at my mokos now and wonder if anyone locked my mokos up at that age. There s no nationality behind it, that you should be locking children up.
Warning: This story discusses graphic details of sexual violence.
A woman who was raped by a welfare home staff member and became pregnant has outlined her ordeal before the inquiry into abuse in care.
Neta Kerepeti.
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The 59-year-old was first sexually abused by her father when she was about 7.
She came to the attention of the Social Welfare Department at 12 years old.
On one occasion after running away she was picked up by a police officer and raped.
Her ordeal continued in the first foster home she stayed in and then at the Bollard Girls Home.
The first humiliation was the mandatory internal examination by a doctor checking for sexually transmitted diseases.
Warning: This story discusses suicide and may be distressing for some readers.
The Bay of Plenty District Health Board has apologised to the family of a young man who died of a suspected suicide four years ago.
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A report released by Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Kevin Allan this week found the DHB breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights for failing to care for the man.
The man, referred to in the report as Mr A, first had contact with mental health services while in his late teens. Two years later, in 2016, he was admitted voluntarily to the mental health ward for two nights after instances of self-harming.
Warning: Graphic content in this story might be distressing to some readers.
A steadfast determination to tell the truth saw a 14-year-old girl endure months of solitary confinement at a social welfare-run home in the mid 1960s.
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She was sexually abused by her half-brother but no one ever believed her.
Taru, who is now 70, spent most of her life being labelled a liar.
After spending some time in a girls home in Horowhenua, she was shipped off to Kingslea in Christchurch.
From day one she was put into a room which was euphemistically called the clinic. We went into a cell and I stayed there for months and months at a time. There was just one cell, there was nothing else in there. Sorry, there was a bed but it was bolted to the floor, that was all that was in that room and me and I was in there for months and months.