Ex-Oranga Tamariki youth justice resident claims staff beat him up for chocolate rewards
A young man who used to be in the care of an Oranga Tamariki youth justice facility claims he made a deal with staff allowing them to beat him up in return for chocolate.
It comes after a wide-ranging review resulted in 28 staff complaints referred to police, on top of disturbing footage last month that showed staff facilitating fights between young men in state care.
Of course OT staff bribed children with chocolate to beat them.
Of course they did.
Staff at these underfunded, under resourced, under managed child detention camps are given 2 weeks training to work with these damaged hurt children.
Of course OT staff bribed children with chocolate to beat them.
Society has been framed out by ram raids and they are screaming for their sense of safety to return despite Covid generating uneven sacrifices in an unequal society!
There were 886 ram-raids in 2022.
There were 57 murders in 2022.
In 2022 there were also 175,573 domestic violence investigations.
Ram raids and murder are terrible crimes, but they pale into insignificance when you look at the cicvil war being committed in terms of domestic violence, yet the entire political debate is over who can put ankle bracelets on children youngest.
We love punishment and suffering and revenge fantasies in this country over justice, mercy and rehabilitation because we are a low imagination horizon people who are fixated on udders, rugby and alcoholism. We are a juvenile Settler culture with all the maturity of a can of day old coke.
Think I’m wrong? Remember what happened when those kids climbed up on the roof?
When youth offenders climbed onto the roof of an Oranga Tamariki detention centre and were coaxed down with KFC, the New Zealand ZB Lynch mob went into a feeding frenzy.
‘How dare we use KFC to coax these kids down’ screamed the New Zealand ZB Lynch mob who seemed to feel that snipes should have been used to bring the children down.
Turned out that the kids had escaped onto the rood because hilariously the staff were arranging Lord of the Flies fight clubs that they were then filming.
These staff get 2 weeks training…
Two men charged with organising fights between children inside Oranga Tamariki
Two Oranga Tamariki staff members have appeared in court, charged with organising fights at a secure youth facility.
…mungo no understand?
Where’s the outrage New Zealand ZB Lynch mob? Where’s the rage that these kids were being forced to fight club each other and that it was this violence that drove them to the roof in protest?
The New Zealand ZB Lynch mob were so aroused by screaming at the use of KFC to coax frightened kids protesting at the violence staff were meting out on them, that no one cared why the kids were up there in the first place!
This Fight Club is the very reason why the Children’s Commissioner should have oversight rather than a faceless useless panel inside the Education Review Office which is what Labour changed it to!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s almost as if there was no warning that children in state care are being abused, oh wait – there was – last year, the headline reads…
Almost 500 children, teenagers in Oranga Tamariki care harmed during 2020-21
…that was published in March of 2022.
It is now September of 2023.
How is this acceptable after the Historic Review into State abuse of children?
The Minister has called for another bloody inquiry when the bleeding obvious is confronting us – these detention centres are obscene and grim and violent and underfunded and under resourced because no one gives a fuck about these kids!
These are the broken children who are awaiting trial or the broken children already abused by the State!
There has not been the investment into the facilities, and there are no plans to do it either!
They will create the smokescreen of an inquiry when the bleeding obvious is the answer – MORE FUCKING MONEY!
Labour will cry out they don’t have the money to do that, which is a lie. They could properly regulate Capitalism and Tax The Rich and we would have the money for this social infrastructure.
Allowing poverty and abuse to co-govern our detention facilities into operating Staff supported fight clubs is an obscenity.
Pretending to not know this is happening when report after report has highlighted all the conditions exist to create these exact abominations is an obscenity.
Removing the Children’s Commissioner as independent oversight of Oranga Tamariki is an obscenity.
Not taxing the rich to properly fund these facilities is an obscenity.
Blaming kids being filmed by staff to compete in fight clubs for climbing onto the roof of their detention centre is an obscenity.
The Minister’s response that more metal detectors at the detention centres is the solution is an obscenity.
Nothing will get better under National or ACT, it will be far worse.
Oh, you want solutions?
Ok.
Tax the fucking rich and properly fund these centres so that staff have more than 2 weeks fucking training!
We don’t care that the boot camp policy is counter productive, we only care that those we hate suffer and are punished.
This is Nu Zilind, this is what we is now.
Bring on the book burnings.
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This has taken place under the stewardship of a Labour Government,it’s a disgrace.
You really are a bit of a muppett at times @Bob. It’s been a problem with successive gummints over the years and the whole OT thing was a window dressing of one of you idols – although I don’t blame her because given her circumstance she could be nothing other than distanced and out of touch with her comfy little BoP lifestyle.
CYFS, OT and whatever that went before it.
We created the idea of the Family Group Conferences which were seen as progressive and the envy of the world. I’ve attended so many I’ve lost count. Problem being that the agreements reached were hardly ever enforced, and PMC equipped often thought they knew better, and even when they didn’t, there was never enough resources at the coal face to check, keep checking and making sure what was agreed was ticketyboo.
In your worldview, no doubt you get what you pay for – and for those abused in State care, there has been FUCK ALL investment in those charged with doing the mahi.
Just ask some of them – Urliches, Reweti-Peters and MANY others. One after the other after the other after the other.
And no doubt, also in your world view – you’d put ’em in the army to show them some discipline.
Well ekshully @ Bob, we tried that too and it ended in a dishonourable discharge BECAUSE of a lack of resource in follow up and checking.
Thankfully, 33 years later, things are turning around and it ISN’T because of anything OT, OR its predecessors have done – rather, IN SPITE of it
Muppett!!!!!
Kneecapping the Children’s Commissioner is indefensible. Replacing the Commissioner with a committee looking like yet another self-serving diversity advertisement from the department promulgating genderID misinformation throughout the school system, is another millstone around the necks of every vulnerable child. Cry the beloved country.
39 years of neo-liberalism gives us this.
LabGween policy. You can’t beat it.
Two weeks’ training to deal with damaged and disturbed children is reprehensible, as is the Minister of Children for his lack of oversight. He incomprehensibly colluded in abolishing the Commissioner for Children, and if it’s replacement and he himself think that wilful negligence is ok, then they should all be abolished themselves.
Domestic violence is a product of people struggling economically,the struggle that has been exacerbated by the lack of action by the Labour Government over 6 years.
Bob Yet again, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Family violence is not, and never has had political links, or economic or social linkages. It permeates every level of society and I struggle to accept that you do not know this.
Wealth redistribution would fix the problem you high light. It’s a fiscal problem.
Sounds an interesting technique. Do people dressed as in the image provide the organisation and services? I am sick of seeing suits and designer clothes fronting up to explain our bloody awful lives and doings to us. Let them dress in what they can derive from op shops.
Do you know that they have got more stuff than they can sell, but they are too upmarket now for the low, and turn away good stuff. When confronted by real need they turn away. They are disgusted at the squalor when people dump their rubbish outside and they are forced to pay to cart it away. Their ideas in christian charity shops are neat poor little people to be patronised. Warm, loving and caring for people who are short of money, help, transport and hope and self-care – that’s what the people need.
The people in our bloody care claws and institutions need kindly, practical services, not middle-class disapprobation. So you get fights – the authorities get upset. It is a legitimate sport for the inmates, of the gladiator type that they are used to, and though a bit rough it isn’t much different than what everyday society is as provided by gummint on the outside. You dainty darlings think on that.
Only one thing missing:
It ain’t over til the fat blogger sings.