MEDIAWATCH: The Nation – Jesus wept – Oranga Tamariki are strip searching children!!!
I wonder how many of these public servants defending strip searching children are earning $100k…
Oranga Tamariki strip-searching children in Youth Justice
Documents obtained by Newshub Nation under the Official Information Act reveal in the six months from July to January, Oranga Tamariki conducted 41 strip searches; 12 in Auckland, none in Rotorua, one in Palmerston North. Three quarters of them – 28 – took place at one facility in Christchurch. It says it doesn’t happen in its care and protection residences.
Youth Justice Residences general manager Ben Hannifin acknowledges the numbers are confronting but says there is some justification.
…THEY ARE TRYING TO DEFEND IT!!!!
THEY ARE STRIP SEARCHING CHILDREN FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!
We are paying a dead turtle with a $12 000 taxpayer funeral more care than children in state care…
Taxpayers shell out more than $12,000 to transport dead turtle, give it a funeral
Taxpayers have shelled out more than $12,000 to transport a dead turtle and give it a funeral.
…right now we have an ongoing inquiry into the horrors perpetrated on the weakest and most vulnerable in State care, how the hell is strip searching children right now anything other than more abuse?
The State is the greatest abuser of human rights in NZ, but sure, let’s fire up over $100k public servants not getting a pay rise instead.
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They strip searched just 41 at Youth Justice Facilities, jail for young persons.
“Items found ranged from broken glass, a sharpened felt-tip and marijuana, to ripped clothing and string”.
Glass that can cut, can stab, can take lives. Sharpened felt tip aka a shank, can stab, maim and kill, ripped clothing and string, that can strangle, hang, harm and kill and do just that! Regularly.
And as much as I would like to believe that all young persons are balanced, thoughtful, peaceful, believed in the truth, caring for others, Santa Claus and the holy ghost, some just dont. Some are nasty pieces of work who commit the worst of adult crimes and don’t give a fuck.
As Kelvin Davis said, those who criticise OT for doing so would criticise OT for allowing a child to harm or kill themselves or others by assuming everyone of those persons entering one of their facilities was ka pai rather than using some common sense risk analysis and searching them. OT have a duty of care too.
It’s the real world, nothing to be outraged about.
Yes, I would like to hear the justification
While it does sound bad, but I guess if the children were going to use the weapons for suicide or harm others then that could be justified. But not strip-searched naked, – more to underwear and with same sex person doing it, and if they are seriously concerned beyond that, with a child protection services person present.