Alan Moncrief Wright News Today

ROSA WOODS/STUFF Grant West, a survivor of child sexual abuse, has since gone on to become the face of sexual abuse survivors and started the idea of tying ribbons to church fences. GRAPHIC CONTENT: Grant West sobbed in his cell-like room. Arthur Taylor was a bright kid and couldn’t figure out what he was doing there. Keith Wiffin met violence before he even arrived. They were boys – aged 10, 11 and 11 respectively – on their first days inside the now-infamous Epuni Boys’ Home in Lowe...

RNZ The Catholic Church says its shamed and saddened by abuse in the church. The church has opened its evidence at the Inquiry into abuse in care on how its handled complaints. (Video first published March 2021). It is also calling on anyone with personal information on the matter to come forward and speak with them. The allegations were made at a Royal Commission of Inquiry hearing on Tuesday by Keith Wiffin, a former ward of the state who lived at Epuni Boys’ Home in Lower Hutt in the 197...

Moncrief-Wright was later convicted and jailed on a number of sexual violation charges against boys and is now dead. At Tuesday’s hearing, Wiffin told the Commission while he didn’t experience the practice involving the Church officials himself, he did take many excursions in the van, which was always driven by Moncrief-Wright. The housemaster would take boys to pick up videos and lollies for the Saturday night entertainment and would sometimes take groups of boys to see movies. “In r...