“After cases such as this the blame game begins. While ultimately responsibility rests with the person or people who take the life of a child, or children, that we tolerate child abuse and neglect is an indictment on our society.
“New Zealand has a high tolerance to violence and much of the violence towards children is perpetrated in the name of discipline. There are no acceptable ways of hitting children.
Dr Kiro is not a favourite of Keeping Stock's. And this lengthy statement suggests why. New Zealanders on the whole do NOT "tolerate child abuse". New Zealanders on the whole do NOT have "a high tolerance towards violence". And Dr Kiro does New Zealanders a huge disservice, especially the children she purports to represent, when she makes sweeping generalisations such as this in solidarity with the likes of Sue Bradford and Helen Clark.
Child abuse is, as I blogged last week, a cancer on our nation. New Zealanders are horrified, angered and sickened by the revelations from the Nia Glassie trial. And Dr Kiro's focus should be on working towards solutions, not on writing platitudinous media releases. Doubtless the incoming adminstration will be closely watching Dr Kiro's performance.
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Kiro should be the first bureaucrat to get the sack when National takes over. I'll take back everything I've said about Paula Bennett if she does that.
Is she saying that the treatment dealt to Nia Glassie was discipline?
Kiro is sick if that is the case and `the people in white coats' should be sent immediately to take her away.
I don't believe that she is necessarily making that link pdm - but she has a history of siding with Bradford et al and using cases like this as a justification for the repeal of S59. Lowlifes such as the Curtis brothers would have no comprehension of the anti-smacking law, and indeed, little comprehension of any law. However, I suspect that they will very soon encounter the law of prison, where child abusers are the lowest of the low.
This neatly demonstrates that Ms. Kiro is utterly devoid of ideas on arresting this blight on our country. That this case has absolutely nothing to do with smacking is obvious to everybody else in the country except her and her coterie of PC morons.
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