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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1010/
- Published: 2024-07-25T18:30:15.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-25T18:30:14.000Z
- Description: “I said, ‘Prime Minister, when you apologise to the mothers forced to give their babies up, here’s my mum, here’s the reality’,” Toni Jarvis said.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, General

> An Invercargill man abused in state care 50 years ago has shown Prime Minister Christopher Luxon a photo of his late mother.  
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> “I said, ‘Prime Minister, when you apologise to the mothers forced to give their babies up, here’s my mum, here’s the reality’,” Toni Jarvis said.  
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> The exchange took place at Parliament, when the [Royal Commission of Inquiry report](https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350354548/what-survivors-abuse-care-hope-will-come-royal-commission?ref=goodoil.news) into abuse in care was tabled.  
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> Dozens of survivors of abuse in care, including Jarvis, gathered to see their experiences recorded and noted at Parliament.  
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> Jarvis said he met Luxon, who intended to formally apologise to the abused survivors in November.  
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> His mother’s name was Margaret Jarvis.  
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> “I often wondered what my life would have been like if they hadn’t taken me from her,” he said.  
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> “She would have loved me, I know she would have, like she loved her \[other\] kids.”  
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> **Stuff**

[Read More](https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350354668/abuse-survivors-heartfelt-exchange-prime-minister?ref=goodoil.news)