So if a Political pedophile ring was operating in the 1990s, where do we start investigating? One dark possibility
- The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care reported “deeply suspicious” allegations of politicians and public servants preying on children;
- The Herald has obtained a police inquiry report from 1992 in which similar allegations were probed;
- Minister of Police John Banks – an abuse survivor himself – says he would not have stood by while children were being hurt.
The allegations are alarming – that senior politicians and public servants in the 1980s carried out organised abuse of children in care.
And then, using their influence, it was claimed they avoided – and continue to avoid – accountability decades later.
Those were the claims made to the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care which, remarkably, reported on the allegations as “deeply suspicious” but lacking “direct evidence”.
This could all be a lie and some grift by a disgruntled journalist, but there was more evidence of these allegations beyond what was reported in the newspapers at the time.
That evidence sits inside the testimonies of state abuse survivors and gagged by restraining orders once settlement is agreed.
Their stores tell of coordinated abuse at the hands of the powerful, those stories will never get told.
If there was an organised ring of public servants, police and politicians abusing children in state care, then it would have been classified a state secret and no possibility of finding anything via OIA.
However, we do have glimpses of monsters and those monsters have left a trail…
Ron Brierley has been jailed for possessing child sexual abuse images.
The 84-year-old former knight and famed corporate raider in New Zealand and Australia was sentenced today in Sydney to 14 months’ prison after pleading guilty to possessing tens of thousands of child sex abuse images
“Images of this kind are neither innocuous or benign,” Judge Sarah Huggett told the court, noting Brierley had collected images over years.
“For decades he had been an intelligent and high functioning businessman … his offending was not isolated nor aberrant nor something that was only in his later years.”
Brierley initially faced 17 charges before he pleaded guilty earlier this year to three counts of possessing child abuse material earlier this year. The other charges against Brierley were withdrawn.
…to be clear.
I’m not suggesting for one second that Ron Brierley was involved in a high level group of politicians, State Servants and Police to abuse children, what I’m saying is that IF such a group existed, powerful and rich men with a sexual interest in children would have been involved and if one wanted to test that theory, research who Brierley was associated with during the time these allegations were supposed to have happened.
A lot of children were abused in State Care and allegations of children being systematically abused for powerful men demands more scrutiny than it has been given.
THere are a few suspects in this government ,just have to look at how much they dont care about the kids of NZ like trying to starve them out of school ,throwing their parents on the work scrap heap to make sure they are living in the worst poverty possable
Very interesting how you put it here, there could very well be more to it than just another pizza gate conspiracy theory, which is how it looked. Who will do this investigation? Why would the state cover it up if there is truth behind it. After all Ron was finally put behind bars.
We certainly shouldn’t make any unwarranted suggestions. I mean Brierley had many associates in politics with the absolute highest moral character- Roger Douglas passed through Brierley’s BIL in the period in which he was busy conspiring to form the ACT Party.
I’m sure we will only hear the best things about these characters after they go to their appointed place in the afterlife and the media is no longer sweeping up for them.
It certainly happened in the UK. When homosexuality was illegal it opened people up to blackmail . It is good those days are behind us.
It’s people like Prince Andrew who get vilified. He couldn’t hide behind screens put up by more anonymous lower orders who could effectively organise. They made him a real scapegoat. He really drew attention away from the other misdeeds carried forward eg the British Post Offices extraordinary rendition from state to private, with malfeasance which needed a cross, garlic and a stake through the heart by those seeking right behaviour who then set themselves to travail through the muck.
Deeply suspicious, meaning absolute bollocks. So was it the National government of day, or a cross party effort? Probably sparked by some delusional Cantab from Christchurch, while going after Peter Ellis.
I mean, the dodgiest party in NZ politics today was founded by veterans of the Lange government, including close associates of Brierley. I’m sure those involved will be as cross party as most parliamentary friendships are.
It could be like the web of lies spun around the Peter Ellis case also? There probably are more people (from all parts of society) with criminal sexul offending not caught yet and maybe some links between them but it seems unlikely that there will be big groups involved because most of society thinks that that sort of offending is abhorrent.
Most of society does not meet the Mt 5:28 standard so it is self righteousness run amok if they just demonize those offenders and ignore what is considered normal immorality. Recognising our need is the first step to salvation so this comment is not intended to condemn anyone, if you don’t believe in God then I’m not going to be offended if you think that I am just another nutter.