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Due to some of the comments made by people, I am obligated to warn you of the GRAPHIC PHOTOS in the photo albums. Photo's contain pictures of abused children. Beaten, battered and horrific brusing of children that resulted in their passing.
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Lengthy terms for Nia Glassie's killers
Melissa Stokes
6:43PM Wednesday February 04, 2009
Source: Newstalk ZB
The brothers who abused and murdered Rotorua girl Nia Glassie will spend at least 17-and-a half years behind bars.
Michael and Wiremu Curtis were on Wednesday sentenced for the three-year-old's murder.
They came into court almost casually, adults who inflicted unthinkable cruelty onto a child.
From the public gallery, people called out for them to rot in hell. In reply, Michael Curtis could be heard barking as he left court, a Mongrel Mob fighting call.
"Good job, chuck the key away. They don't deserve to live. Give them exactly what they gave the baby," says Piki Rapana, Nia's aunty.
The sentencing judge, Justice Judith Potter, told the guilty five that Nia Glassie had no-one to fight in her corner.
The judge sentenced the two brothers who had kicked Nia Glassie's head in to life imprisonment and a 17-and-a-half year non parole period.
"The ill-treatment of this child sent waves of shock horror and disbelief through the community in New Zealand. So it rightly should," she said.
Lisa Kuka, the mother who turned a blind eye to the violence, was sentenced to nine years in jail for manslaughter.
"Lisa Kuka was the only person Nia could look too for protection and she failed utterly," said Justice Potter.
"I don't' think the public would accept anything other than a stiff penalty," says Panama Le'au'anae, Kuka's lawyer.
Nia Glassie suffered months and months of misery. She was kicked in the head, put in a clothes drier which was turned on, had wrestling moves performed on her and was flung off a clothesline before her short life ended in Starship Hospital in August 2007.
The Curtis brothers turned against her because she was ugly.
Wiremu Curtis's lawyer, Craig Horsley says his client is sorry for what he did to Nia and has to live with it.
Making up the pack who tormented her were two others who were found guilty of assault.
Michael Curtis's girlfriend Oriwa Kemp was was sentenced to just over three years in jail and Nia's cousin, Michael Pearson will spend three years behind bars for his part in the torture of the three-year-old.1 Comment 227 weeks
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Smacking bill referendum to be held
August 22, 2008, 5:35 pm
A postal referendum will be held on anti-smacking laws after parliamentary officials confirmed a petition calling for the ballot had enough valid signatures.
Clerk of the House Mary Harris said an audit of the petition found that about 310,000 of the 390,000 signatures were valid.
To trigger a referendum, 10 percent of registered voters (285,000) need to sign it.
Petition organiser Larry Baldock said the vote should be held in conjunction with the election.
The Government has ruled this out, saying it would best be held as a postal ballot next year.
Ministers cited advice from electoral officials that the last time a referendum was held it had confused voters, slowed down the count and to so again would be a logistical nightmare.
They said there was little difference in cost between holding a postal ballot separately and the extra resources need to run a referendum on election day.
Ms Harris said the petition would be presented to Parliament on August 26 and the Government had one month to name a date for a referendum or say a postal ballot will be held.
The vote must be held within a year of its presentation to Parliament.
After the petition announcement, Justice Minister Annette King confirmed the Goverment was planning a postal ballot which would take place midway through 2009.
Mr Baldock said Prime Minister Helen Clark was trying to avoid the smacking laws becoming an election issue, but this would not work.
Mr Baldock, who is also the leader of the Kiwi Party, said today's announcement was "great news and a huge victory" that had taken far more effort than should be needed in a democracy.
When the petition was originally presented in February, there were 324,316 signatures, but many were ruled out during a checking process and the final tally was 269,500.
Organisers had another two months to gather more signatures.
The referendum will ask the question -- `Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand ?"
The legislation, which was drafted by Green MP Sue Bradford, amended section 59 of the Crimes Act to remove the defence of reasonable force for parents who physically discipline their children.
It was backed by Labour and eventually National supported the legislation after an amendment gave police discretion to judge whether a reported offence warranted prosecution.
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Mother of dead baby concealed pregnancy
The 17-year-old mother of a baby found dead in Te Puke in the Bay of Plenty had hidden her pregnancy from her family
11 August 2008.
Tauranga police investigating the death of a newborn baby have confirmed the child's mother had concealed her pregnancy.
The baby girl was found dead at a rural property in Te Puke on Friday. Her mother is 17-years-old.
Senior Sergeant Rob Glencross says the teenager had hidden her pregnancy from her entire family. He says a full statement will be made later in the morning on the circumstances surrounding the case.
A post mortem examination has been carried out and family members have been interviewed.
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Masculinist Evolution New Zealand - promoting a clearer understanding of men's experience - site
The link is above.
This man makes a VERY VERY valid point.
"I have heard several men complain that their complaints to CYFs regarding the safety of their children, in the care of the children’s mother, were not listened to by CYFs.
There were two young Aplin? girls living near to Palmerston North, who were murdered by their step father, in their mother’s house. In this case CYFs denied that they had received complaints over at least a 6 months period, from the father. The father later produced telephone bills, showing when the calls were made and how long they lasted. CYFs then retracted, saying that they had got their records mixed up. It sounded awfully as though CYFs had dismissed the father’s complaints, without in any way at all investigating them.
I have known of several fathers who had been denied contact with their children, by the mother refusing to obey or honour familycaught orders. The familycaught steadfastly refused to enforce orders that it had made!
Later, when the mother’s care had come into question, after complaints by teachers or neighbours, social workers were looking at the chidren’s extended family for possible carers. They considered - apparently as a matter of personal judgement (incidentally outside the written CYFs statute law!) - that the fathers are not part of the family. It seems that they were able to make this assessment without even talking to the fathers in any way! Essentially, they were accepting the mother’s assessment of the father!, the same mother that they were now removing the children from!!!!!
Someone in the mother’s family told the father that CYFs were making these enquiries, about who was available to care for the children?
The father contacted CYFs, but was told he wouldn’t even be considered.
I am not saying that all social workers behave in this way. The erratic unpredictability results from the lack of relevant training of many social workers. These decisions are effectively random gambling with children’s lives.
I guess this reflects the lack of relevant professional training possessed by these social workers. Although several judicial enquiries have pressed the Government to recruit properly trained social workers, as fast as they have recruited suitably trained staff, they have lost the same number somewhere else.
Practically - no progress has been made!
Unfortunately, it seems that the general voting public are more concerned about tax cuts, than they are about the quality of decisions being made, about removing children from families. Maybe we remove about the right number of children - it’s just that we seem to remove children who should not have been removed and fail to remove children who need to be removed to keep them alive.
To add insult to injury, some of the removed children are killed, by caregivers chosen by CYFs.
This alone shows the lack of decision making ability within CYFs. Boldly painted in red letters.
While “judges” have been calling for better qualified social workers, it is notable that our NZ appointed “judges” are not professionally or relevantly trained as judges!
We follow the British style, of appointing lawyers, to then act as judges.
Anyway, please don’t die laughing, as children’s lives are being extinguished for no good reason. One day, one of them might be your own child or your own grandchild.
Standing by, making complaints that are clearly just being ignored, is extremely disheartening and soul destroying. Then to have to face the preventable death of your child must be one of the cruelest ways we could ever treat any parent.
All that I can say to a father trapped in this situation is “document your complaint as well as you can and send it into CYFs. Maybe, do this 2 or 3 times over several months. Then, try to stand back and h
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8/3/10
Lil Freak
they have no right to get abuse i hate ppl who do that >
Here my love to stop children abuse
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7/13/10
Exclusiive
how can people hurt there children when others arnt even able to have kids ; like wtf ? and when ppl lose there babys to miss carriage ? and other idiots wanna kill there helpless children ; well guess what FUCK USE >
heart for all of gods souljahs
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Shirley Jones6/14/10i will be a moderator just send me a message
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ShannonCheriee.4/12/10i will be moderator if ya wont?..x
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4/11/10 via Mobile
GLossy Miss Bossy
Im getting so sick of seeing on the news that children an babys r dying an getn abused 2 the point that there b0dy iz so badly damaged
i cry wen ever i hear or see about, i have a gorgous 1 an half yr 0ld girl, i kant imagen my self 0r anyb0dy else hurting her, shez 2 precious, arnt they all, please people, d0 n0t abuse children or babys, the kant defend them selfz, they dnt understand the world an how evrythng workz! I love all bbys an children, if i ever see a child or bby get mistreated, an abused i wil cal the copz, gosh sumbody has to protect them, if thea waz a group 2 j0in where we kan save childrn an babaz frm being abused, id s0o b in that group. .
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Jammy Jen3/31/10All kids have the right since the day they are born to live a good childhood. There is no excuse for abusing children. Kids rely on their parents for nurturing and kindness not abuse and pain. It's just cruelty and remember children are the future adults.
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3/14/10
May Nonu
I cant believe people would actually do those terrible unspeakable things to their children, God is watching so they will be judged for their doings. The beautiful children that have passed on are all in a better place with our Heavenly Father.
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1/7/10
Patches - Dats Us
I believe they know who killed JonBenet, someone took a bribe to keep everything quiet. There was too much evidence discovered within the home, perhaps it was a brother of hers - seems to lead that direction. Several years ago a similar case developed in Philadelphia, Pa. The case was never investigated.
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Casualty Of War12/4/09”The best way to protect children from wars is to prevent them from happening in the first place” War kills, injures or permanently disables many thousands of children War sees countless children, mostly girls, raped or subjected to other forms of sexual violence War traumatizes and displaces millions from their homes War orphans countless young people Close to 10,000 youth are killed or maimed by landmines War violates every right a child should have –the right to life, the right to be with family and community, the right to health, the right to education, the right to the development of the personality, and the right to be protected. Children make up the majority of civilian victims of armed conflict, and the absolute numbers of children affected continue to grow. STOP THE WAR & BRING OUR TROOPS BACK!!!
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10/6/09
Youallenvyme
i have had cyfs called on me 5 times during the past 2 years and EVERYTIME they come and visit they honestly found nothing it's jus ppl being malisious there are alot of ppl that need cyfs attention but not me i have never harmed my daughter in anyway i would and could never do that to her cyfs should pay attention to all the ppl out there who are actually abusing their kids and there are actually unexplainable marks bruises on them
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BeAutiful10/6/09HEY ALL, IVE CREATED A NEW WEBSITE YOU CAN NOW FIND ME @ http://xpressionz-msdvs.blogspot.com/ YOU CAN ALSO SUPPORT CHILDRENS HOSPITALS BY CLICKING ON A LINK FROM MY WEBSITE Im currently featuring some of my work from here and when i get round to it ill be posting new stuff be sure to check out the ads and other stuff and also continue your support by joining up and following my site. If you are on FACEBOOK you can link my site to yours for easier future reference ALL thoughts and feedback are welcome! HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL AGAIN SOON! Kylie
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XxNikki10/3/09seriously the ppl who abuse children r mean, and need shooting, all children have the right to live happy, its not ok to hit children or abuse them, i study child care at tafe and i have been for a year now, and i really enjoy it when i watch the news about parents neglecting there children i feel like shooting them, if u abuse children whats the point of getting preganet then
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Kylie8/27/09
Children have the right to Live peacefully and grow up being successfull !! If anyone thinks chld abuse or even smaking children is okay..they have issuess!! its NOT okay too punish your children by the anger or sadness your feeling, simply walk away for 2 seconds and breathe then come back to your childrren!! Im totally AGANIST child abuse, the people that commit this terrible crime should be faced LIFE in PRISON!! or give them the same treatement as they gave the poor child
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8/9/09
Jo
sweet dreams baby delcie, you deserved so much better, now your killer mother has a new life, new husband and new baby......you never had the chance to even feel safe or loved your whole life was PAIN because this woman failed you and her slob boyfriend raped, burned and tortured you for FUN????? If anyone deserves a cloud in paradise and a beautiful afterlife it is you little girl ....god only knows what awaits those who did this to you
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Freespiritnz7/20/09This was in the herald.and is sooo discusting and Man accused of pimping 12-yr-old daughter 2:38PM Monday Jul 20, 2009 The High Court at Auckland. File photo / Dean Purcell The High Court at Auckland. File photo / Dean Purcell A father was paid $40 by three men who sexually assaulted his 12-year-old daughter in a store car park in south Auckland, a court was told today. The 37-year-old father-of-eight arranged for the attack to take place, the Crown has alleged in the High Court at Auckland.
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Zacs Chavvie Lil Bitch7/4/09http://www.bebo.com/luvzXkidz plz join my group its about child abuse its got the signs of an abused child to so maybe 1 day u could pick up on those signs and save a innocent young child or baby xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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6/18/09
To every child who fall victims to abuse, love from the universe of carers....
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