: | RNZ | Tim Brown | The government and a vast majority of faith-based institutions have missed a key deadline recommended by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. The commissioner’s first time-sensitive recommendation was that the government and faith-based institutions should publish responses to the inquiry’s reports…
: | Christianity Today | Isabel Ong | Survivors, advocates, and pastors call for “true repentance” among religious groups that ran schools and homes between 1950 and 1999. Over the next few years, Tagaloa began piecing together long-buried memories and came to recognize that she had been sexually abused between the ages of…
: | 1News | Ryan Boswell | Survivors of abuse in faith-based care are worried perpetrators and institutions won’t be held accountable despite the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse. The inquiry, which reported last month after a six-year investigation, found the moral authority of religious leaders had…
: | The Press | Joanne Naish | A woman who claims she was enslaved at Gloriavale from birth says an apology without accountability is “pointless”. The Royal Commission into Abuse in Care’s final report recommended Overseeing Shepherd Howard Temple issue a formal apology for neglect and abuse in Gloriavale. The inquiry…
: | Greymouth Star | Laura Mills | The Abuse in Care Royal Commission recommendations include steps that would prevent someone like Gloriavale founder Hopeful Christian — who returned to lead the community after being jailed for sex offending — from ever happening again. The inquiry’s 3000-page final report, released yesterday, estimated 200,000…
: | RNZ | Jean Edwards| The government has been urged to immediately do everything it can to ensure the safety of Gloriavale members and their children as a result of Royal Commission findings that leaders allowed physical and sexual abuse at the West Coast Christian community. The Overseeing Shepherd has also been called on…
: | RNZ | Tim Brown | At least 200,000 people have been abused, and even more neglected, by the state and faith-based institutions since 1950. The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry’s 3000-page final report has been made public on Wednesday afternoon, laying bare the scale of failure of…
: | Otago Daily Times | Ric Stevens, Open Justice reporter | The abuse and neglect of hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders in the care of state- and faith-based institutions has been branded “a national disgrace”. The long-awaited report of the Abuse in Care Royal Commission, six years in the making, has been released…
: | The Post | Anna Whyte | The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care report has named dozens of institutions it said was at various levels of fault for the abuse within their walls, as detailed by survivors’ experiences. The report outlined what happened to those in care between 1950 to 2019,…
: By Maxine Jacobs | Stuff | As the final day of the Inquiry into Abuse in Care hearings drew to a close, Gary Williams reminded the Royal Commission of the children. “Survivors started their journey as innocent, and through their journey they became punished, and punished, and punished again. “I…