Catherine Rentz propublica.org **This story is the first of a three-part series. Editor’s note: This story contains several brief descriptions of rape. “Who Is This Monster?” by Catherine Rentz; Illustrations by Isabel Seliger, special to ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big
As I’ve asked before, why aren’t we spitting on teachers? That, after all, is what has happened to priests, even in Ireland. In the media, priests are continually painted as predators in robes. Jokes about priests and altar boys are the stock-in-trade of every second-rate “comedy” festival (even
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust Official Information Act data shows there has been more ‘liquid-ecstasy drugs’ seized by Police and Customs in the first three months of this year than in the entirety of 2019. “The National Drug Intelligence Bureau released data to the Sensible Sentencing Trust showing
Dear Editor A work colleague of mine was talking to the local E Tu union rep Red Middlemiss. He was saying some local gang members (don’t know if they are Black Power or Mongrel Mob) were getting paid 100k per annum government funding to run counselling services. I don’
Angela Shanahan mercatornet.com Angela Shanahan is a Canberra-based freelance journalist and mother of nine children. She has written regularly for The Australian for over 20 years, The Spectator (British and Australian editions) for over 10 years, and formerly for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust If found guilty, the two ferals from Flaxmere charged for “one of the worst child abuse cases” need to not only face the maximum prison time possible but they should not be afforded the usual weak sentence reductions from the likes of culture
You had to be listening hard through the word soup to hear that the Prime Minister believes that you don’t need a target to reduce violent crime, all you have to do is reduce the prison population. Hon Judith Collins: Why does the Government have a target to reduce
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson The Government has today announced it will spend $70 million to go softer on crime than it already is. This funding includes 12 Iwi Community Panels, known as Te Pae Oranga. These panels give offenders who commit serious crimes like stabbing a police officer
Revelations Associate Justice Minister Willie Jackson met with the Mongrel Mob at gang headquarters and Black Power in the Beehive on multiple occasions indicate that, far from hostile, Government relations with gangs are practically friendly, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Gangs are recruiting faster than the police, violent
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust The revelation that Associate Minister of Justice Willie Jackson has met with gang members as a ‘part of his job’ shows the total misdirection this government is heading in with justice and law-and-order, says Darroch Ball, co-leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. “It would
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson Associate Justice Minister Willie Jackson has been told by the Prime Minister one of his key focusses should be “engagement with gangs.” Willie Jackson is taking on that role with gusto, meeting with Black Power three times and the Mongrel Mob at least once
Jewish shops smashed and looted. Synagogues and schools attacked. A statue of an Honorary American Citizen who saved thousands of Jews during the holocaust defaced with anti-Semitic slogans. This has to be the work of the far-right, yes? No. This mini-Kristallnacht was the work of the supposedly “anti-Fascist” left. In
The case of Richard Pusey, the porsche-driving road-rager who filmed himself screaming abuse at dying police officers, grabbed headlines. Pusey was recently convicted and sentenced for “outraging public decency”. But the accident itself was not Pusey’s fault, except insofar as his flagrant speeding habit led to the police being
Labour’s Broken Compass Budget has failed to address the growing critical threats to New Zealand’s digital infrastructure, National’s spokesperson for Digital Economy and Communications Melissa Lee says. “We only have to look at what’s happening to the Waikato DHB to know how important it is to
Remember #StopAsianHate? Anyone? Boy, did that hashtag get old, quick. Michelle Obama didn’t even get round to taking a pouty selfie while holding up a poster. Which is weird, considering that there has been an undeniable wave of violent anti-Asian hate crimes in America especially. But the media and
