When Judge Carolyn Henwood explains her job to her
three-year-old grandson, she tells him it's about fairness. But, as the
former Chair of the Confidential Listening and Assistance Service, she
says there is little fairness for the 1,100 New Zealand children who
were horrifically abused while in state care until the early 1990s. She
says the time has come for New Zealanders to clearly state how our
children should be treated.
For the last seven years I
have heard reported accounts of children suffering sexual abuse,
punchings, kickings, and beatings with jug cords. I heard from children
who were locked up in solitary confinement, unable to learn at school
because they were so worried about what would happen to them when they
got home.http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/89359350/Carolyn-Henwood-Time-has-come-for-New-Zealanders-to-clearly-state-how-children-should-be-treated