Lost among the hype of New Zealand’s recently released 2010 crime figures were some shocking data about child violence. The stats make for grim reading as they come at a time when schoolyard bullying and violent assaults are frequently in the New Zealand news. Police crime statistics showed the number of children under 9 apprehended…
Further details have emerged of the sickening attack on a 15 year old Wanganui Girl’s College student, Robin de Jong, that we reported on on 20 March. See Another School Attack Hospitalises Student Video of the assault shows another pupil of Wanganui Girl’s College pushing her victim to the ground, kicking her in the back…
In the last few days we’ve been blogging about bullying, a culture of brutality, assaults on children and the controversial ‘anti-smacking’ legislation in supposedly child friendly New Zealand. In the blog about a father being acquitted of child brutality (despite his admission that he’d tied his son by his wrist and then by his neck,…
(For an update to this story read Wanganui Girl’s College Student Bled From Ears (25 March 2011) Another appalling incidence of female bullying and violence has again occurred in a New Zealand school. Following a disturbing trend in New Zealand the assault was recorded. This account appeared in yesterday’s Wanganui Chronicle A Wanganui Girls’ College student…
Hadlin Onverwacht is a 13 year old teen who left the troubles of South Africa four years ago. Unfortunately when she emigrated from South Africa to New Zealand she never imagined that she was exchanging one set of strife and tribulations for another when she became a pupil at Mount Roskill Grammar School in Auckland. If you…
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