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Martyn Bomber Bradbury: It is difficult to write about the latest exposed abuse at Oranga Tamariki without an intense anger and bitter sadness.
That some of our most vulnerable young children should be assaulted in such a manner by the State who is supposed to be protecting them strikes us with raging grief that can see no horizon.
First, we must congratulate the young whistleblower for having the courage to expose this violence, their empathy and compassion was fearless. Their care exemplifies the best of our social service.
Secondly, we must also thank Newsroom for their brave journalism. They are currently being prosecuted for highlighting Oranga Tamariki’s appalling reverse uplift policy and follows them releasing the original uplift footage that rocked the country. Their unwavering focus on how the weakest and most vulnerable are abused by State agencies who are supposed to care is journalism at its best.
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Friday, 2 July 2021, 4:28 pm
On Monday, as I drove from Kerikeri to Kamo, on Radio New
Zealand Kathryn Ryan was interviewing
students from Christchurch Girls High School, who were
commenting on vague but serious claims of sexual abuse, with
the finger being pointed mainly at Christchurch Boys High
School pupils.
It was a discomforting listen, and my
passing thoughts included three movies: The Crucible (set in
the 1690s), Heavenly Creatures (set in the 1950s), and
Clockwork Orange (set in the 1960s). My thoughts also
drifted to the Christchurch Civic Creche case (early 1990s),
where a number of women and one man were charged with