Matua Kahurangi: Some communities protect abusers the same way churches did

I wrote the other day about white European men, the church, and the long, ugly trail of child sexual offending that keeps surfacing in this country. Predictably, some people bristled. Others pretended not to understand the point. A few accused me of singling out one group while ignoring others. So let’s be clear about what was said, and what wasn’t.

Kerre Woodham: Should there be name suppression for child sexual abusers?

I can't think of much worse than being labelled a child abuser, a child pornographer. It's such an abhorrent, vile, aberrant perversion of a crime. All crime is evil. But when it involves children, there's something particularly sickening about it.