Three generations of women in a Gisborne family turned on a
12-year-old relative who claimed she had been sexually assaulted by her
uncle, in a case that a judge said "made a mockery of notions of
whanau". The case involved a mother and daughter forcing the girl
to retract claims that her uncle had indecently assaulted her, after a
jury had found him guilty.
The women, aged 48 and 29, and both closely related to the offender, have been jailed for three years for attempting to pervert the course of justice. They cannot be named, to protect the girl. When sentencing the pair in Gisborne District Court on July 16, Judge Tony Adeane said the girl was the subject of "a cruel course of ostracism by three generations of female relatives – grandmother, aunt and cousin".
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The women, aged 48 and 29, and both closely related to the offender, have been jailed for three years for attempting to pervert the course of justice. They cannot be named, to protect the girl. When sentencing the pair in Gisborne District Court on July 16, Judge Tony Adeane said the girl was the subject of "a cruel course of ostracism by three generations of female relatives – grandmother, aunt and cousin".
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/70641919/Judge-blasts-family-who-intimidated-young-victim-of-sexual-assault