Government dishonour those abused in State Care with pathetic law

The Abuse in Care Legislation Amendment Bill limped through into law last night in a move that most Kiwis should be ashamed of.

The State, who have used despicable tactics against the victims of state abuse to undermine their claims and undermine the payout EVEN THOUGH THE STATE KNEW THAT THE VICTIMS WERE TELLING THE TRUTH AND WERE BEING TORTURED, RAPED, ABUSED AND BEATEN – even though the NZ State KNEW the allegations against the State were true, they did everything in their power to silence victims, undermine victims, minimise victims, demonise victims and gag victims all so that the cost would be lower for the State.

That isn’t standing your corner and protecting your interests, that is a predator covering their tracks and minimising their costs.

In light of that appalling behaviour by the State, The Abuse in Care Legislation Amendment Bill is a shameful and embarrassing document that ignores the main calls by victims fore an Independent Body away from the State that decides costs, a point made by State abuse survivor Ihorangi Reweti Peters…

the announcement did not include the establishment of the promised new single redress system. Minister Stanford noted that both the royal commission and the redress design group recommended a new independent redress system, but the challenging decision between allocating resources to develop a new scheme versus providing immediate support through current processes seems to have prevented this from happening.

It was clear that the Government cared more about how they looked to voters than acting on their promises to survivors.

…exactly!

This is about looking like the Government have listened rather than actually listening.

So let’s get this straight:

• The State abused hundreds of thousands of vulnerable NZ children.
• The State KNEW it had abused these children.
• The State then used despicable and disgusting tactics to minimise the abuse and undermine the victims while retraumatizing them to save costs.
• The State then passes a law that ignores what victims wanted.

If you aren’t disgusted by this, you aren’t paying attention.

This is why I can’t take the right wing hate trolls seriously – they are more concerned with petty culture war hate games than the true damage of the State on the weakest and poorest amongst us.

Consider this, it is estimated that 80 to 90 per cent of Mongrel Mob and Black Power gang whānau had been abused in state wards.

You want less gang members, stop abusing kids in State care!

Allowing Boot Camps and the right to use force simply entrenches the States capacity to abuse, not cleanse it of it.

We should all be ashamed of this pitiful legislation.

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