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Showing posts with label Physical child abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Physical child abuse. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

John MacDonald: The anti-smacking law has failed. But we still need it


How about this for a statistic to make you proud to be a New Zealander?

In the past seven years, since Oranga Tamariki was established, 57 kids have died because of abuse or neglect in New Zealand.

They’re the numbers being reported today as we try to get our heads around the death of another toddler, Ruthless Empire, who died just days before his second birthday from what the police described as “blunt force trauma”.