Cough.
So the baby’s name that died was Ruthless-Empire Souljah Reign Rhind Shephard Wall???
Tell me that name isn’t an immediate red flag!
Ruthless-Empire Souljah Reign Rhind Shephard Wall???
That’s a name that demands Oranga Tamariki on the speed dial.
Am I right?
You know I am.
The second red flag is anything that comes out of the family spokespersons mouth that isn’t an immediate, ‘What scumbag has killed our baby’. If the words are about how loved the baby was, it reeks of an attempt to gloss over the level of accepted feral violence festering in that family.
The toddler’s uncle and family spokesman earlier told the Herald Ruthless-Empire was a “happy and bubbly” baby who would brighten up any room with his smile.
He described his nephew as “our soul” and said the family was absolutely devastated, having learned of his death while they were gathered in church.
“We received this news whilst our church bells were ringing on Sunday that our Baby Ru had grown his wings and headed home to Torona o Iho [Throne of God].”
I will be surprised if there isn’t a lot of previous violence.
The third but biggest red flag however is every prick wanting to use another dead brown baby from the underclass as a point scoring exercise to demand ‘enough is enough’ and that ‘something must be done’ because we refuse point blank to do the things that needs to be done!
Baby Ru death: Child abuse prevention group calls on politicians to take ‘courageous leadership’
A child abuse prevention group has said “enough is enough” in response to Police’s homicide investigation into the death of a toddler in Lower Hutt at the weekend.
Ruthless-Empire Ahipene-Wall died from blunt force trauma on Sunday in his home where he was living with three family members.
It’s been reported one of those relatives was on bail for assault charges.
Police say they’re working with Oranga Tamariki to understand how Baby Ru ended up in that home.
The reality is that the 9 dead children killed by whanau last year is a perfectly acceptable price to pay for most NZers to underfund our social services!
Our underfunded social services that prefer to contract out wrap around services to NGOs are a weeping wound that burns our society but we point blank refuse to fund them properly by taxing the rich!
Oranga Tamariki is a Frankenstein monster, a neoliberal welfare experiment conjured up by Bill English and big data.
The argument is that children from backgrounds with specific features were the worst in terms of cost to the state, so if the State stepped in and removed the children quickly enough, that cost will fall.To do this they passed law reducing the legal rights of parents, streamlined their 0800 numbers and weaponised uplifts.
They also ensured that people with children taken from them are ineligible for legal aid so they couldn’t fight back legally.
Oranga Tamariki has always been about saving the State money and the welfare of the child is secondary to that!
Since the Royal Inquiry into Historic Abuse, the Public Services Commission has done all it can to remove OT oversight and roll it into the ERO so that it saves the State money if children are abused in our care.
That Labour acquiesced to this and removed the Children’s Commissioner from providing OT oversight is disgraceful.
MSD in the 2000s oversaw obscene tactics that included hiring private detectives to dig dirt on victims who were complaining about being abused in state care in a Test case that if MSD had lost would have cost the State untold in damages.
The elite Wellington Bureaucratic class wanted to remove the threat of costs and damages from poorly funded social services and the ‘social investment model’ is a means to spend money on the most costliest of those social problems without actually universally funding services.
For the State, amputating social responsibilities and the legal threat of damages frees them up from having to spend any money in the first place.
Rather than creating more taxes like a Capital Gains Tax or Financial Transaction Tax to properly funded the welfare of children in State care, it’s easier to amputate the responsibility altogether.
Social Investment is a bullshit term for ending universal provision of welfare under the guise of providing more resource for the most at risk target demographic.
Baby Ru died because the adults in her life were broken violent people living at the bottom of a system that only seeks to erase them as a cost, not heal them as human beings.
Is barely enough enough?
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How did the child end up with them? Were the 3 individuals living in the house..parents/extended whanau/foster care.?
There are no details, and somehow we conclude funding is the problem?
Non corporation with police means the perpetrators escape the justice system, and some how this is acceptable.
We blame funding, but why should tax payer keep throwing money where no family member nor extended whanau of the child has any remorse, if they did someone would have spoken up already.
If that child had lived, would likely have become another statistic. Sounds harsh, but blaming the tax payers is weak!
Start by offering everyone receiving direct taxpayers charity enabling them to have food and shelter a free IUD / vasectomy +$1000
I have suggested this before and was slated and called all sorts of sorts of bad names but it is fact that certain people do not deserve the privilege of being a parent .It is easily achieved but hard to do properly and few including me succeed without regrets but at least 99 percent of the times their needs were paramount.
Does that include people with disabilities and superannuitants?
The Wellington Elite don’t really give two hoots about this baby or the family that it belonged to sadly. Because outside the elites world nothing else seems to matter.
Once we lose our mauri, there’s really nothing left.
What a pity that Carmel Sepuloni and Kelvin Davis abolished the Commissioner for Vulnerable children. This terribly battered little baby needed such a champion, and it looks like Oranga Tamariki needs better than some bunch of do-nothings from the Department of Education seemingly too busy embracing ideological fringe activities than doing the responsible adult thing which it should be. RIP, poor dead child. If the IRD can have a confidential tip line for reporting money fraudsters, why helpless powerless infants don’t have one beggars belief.
All the usual suspects will be on show here- intergenerational welfare dependency, gang affiliations, drug and alcohol dependency, criminal activity, low educational outcomes and a perpetuation of a victim mentality.
It is obvious that a completely different approach is needed here.
The gentle fluttering of wings into heaven?
Yes it’s a load of rubbish but the gullible believe it for some reason.
I have suggested this before and was slated and called all sorts of sorts of bad names but it is fact that certain people do not deserve the privilege of being a parent .It is easily achieved but hard to do properly and few including me succeed without regrets but at least 99 percent of the times their needs were paramount.
The problem IS our government and NGO social services.
Too captured by the woke political correct cultural neo kindness straight jacket, everything that is needed to done is not done only for this appalling barbarity to be repeated over and over until we are no longer outraged.
It has become normal, common and expected. It is the Kiwi version of US school shootings.
We all know what needs to be done but inaction rules.
Jack, I may be wrong, but the State Services Commissioner overseeing the kneecapping of the Commission for Vulnerable Children being a single man who I think has not been a parent or caregiver, may not be the wisest choice for such a job. It may be better for Peter Hughes to be replaced. He’ll land another lucrative position, they all look after each other. I think one of the MSD top dogs may be an ex-army chief who featured in the Hager/Stevenson account of what the SAS did in Afghanistan, but I can’t be bothered checking.
Rather than advising Winston Peters to apologise for allegedly saying mean things about Ardern, Sepuloni could consider heaving herself out to Taita Cemetary and apologising to this dead baby. It’s a bleak and arid burial place where gulls wheel overhead meowing like alley cats before heading back towards turbulent Cook Strait and richer pickings.
Peter Hugh’s is alienating to the wider population. He may be the bees knees around the Welly Bureacracy but that’s it. No he should not come anywhere near a role that has anything to do with parenting. Looks rather odd to just saying
Very true Martyn. We need to form a society where abuse like this, which is the primary value of characters like Tim Jago, is unacceptable. Libertarians hate that. But they will all burn in hell.
Vile scum kill kids, not the poor. Most poor people look after their children. These were vile scum that need to be hung out to dry.
It’s been obvious for years that state agencies are simply not up to the job of solving these sorts of problems. The last thing these agencies need is more money chucked at them. That would wrongly assume that a) They possesses the will to solve said problem and b) That they have the competence to do so.
Obviously they don’t.
Time to give the Salvos or someone else who actually cares a go.
Definitely not the 1st heartbreaking passing and won’t be the last in this world we live in. After reading all these argumentative comments on each supposed belief which isn’t “just a few lines of a comment’ or a 5 minute talk on an o going issue that’s been around for years now who is any random to make these bold statements to an ever changing economy.
Life can be hard enough without anyone thinking they have the right to choose life or death on another’s life fullstop. And yet psychological pain can be more severe as physical pain. Where’s the WORDS HELP AND SUPPORT THESE DAYS!!!! Nah aye either got no time or cant be bothered. Self centred. Not all about money AT ALL.
The thing I’ve noticed is that executives of all kinds never try to actually fix a problem. They always go for constucting the illusion that something is being done. Occasionally they get lucky and the window dressing works in spite of them. For a little while anyway. Most of the time, though, they create a mess that they then wash their hands of and move on to the next “project”.
I’ve always marveled at this. It seems to go beyond laziness into some sort of weird pathological human behavior that is baked in and unfixable.
Ruthless-Empire Souljah Reign Rhind Shephard Wall???
That’s a name that demands Oranga Tamariki on the speed dial.
Am I right?
That is hilarious! Thanks Martyn you have made my day (which was rapidly sliding into the abyss!) that is funny …
3,800+ precious children killed in Gaza from Israeli bombs, one every ten minutes, and not one Western politician is condemning it or lifting a finger to stop it. Certainly not our newly elected weaselheads.
Ruthless empire indeed. Good name for an ethno-fascist militarised colonialist state, but not for a child. How did it get past the name registrar? That’s the first question.
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