250k Kiwis estimated to have been abused in state and faith based care
Chair of the royal commission, Judge Coral Shaw, said the figures were deplorable.
250k Kiwis estimated to have been abused in state and faith based care Wed, 16 Dec 2020, 2:02PM
Up to 253,000 people are estimated to have been abused in care in New Zealand between 1950 and 2019, with the number of people passing through care judged to be six times higher than previously thought.
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith-based Care has released two research reports by consultancy agency Martin Jenkins and an internal report by the inquiry s research team.
Kath Coster spent part of her childhood at Strathmore
There’s a big chunk of Kath Coster’s childhood that is a blank. Not because she can’t remember it – she will never forget the time she spent at Strathmore Girls’ Home in Christchurch. The abuse she went through from the age of nine has left deep scars. “I don’t think you ever get over that kind of thing,” she says. But the Department of Social Welfare, as it was called then, that ran Strathmore has passed on an institutional amnesia to its present-day iteration, the Ministry of Social Development. It has left little trace of the existence of Strathmore, which was closed in 1980.
Abuse in Care: Quarter of a million Kiwis estimated to have been abused in state and faith based care
15 Dec, 2020 05:38 PM
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Chair of the royal commission, Judge Coral Shaw, said the figures were deplorable.
NZ Herald
By: Jake McKee Cagney
Up to 253,000 people are estimated to have been abused in care in New Zealand between 1950 and 2019, with the number of people passing through care judged to be six times higher than previously thought.
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith-based Care has released two research reports by consultancy agency MartinJenkins and an internal report by the inquiry s research team.
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