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A Pamapuria elder wants to change the name of the community’s school.
Waireti Walters says the community near Kaitaia is trying to heal the damage caused by Pamapuria School’s former deputy principal, James Parker, who was last week sentenced to preventative detention for sex attacks on at least 20 boys over the past decade.
She says changing the name may be a way to reflect a new beginning.
She says Parker’s sentence, which included a minimum seven years in prison, wasn’t long enough.
"He gets seven years and preventative detention and they boys get life. They’ve got life of suffering, life of embarrassment, life in pain, and just imagine when they grow into young men and into relationships, how is that going. So he got off easily. He should have been executed," Mrs Walters says.
She says the women of Pamapuria are working on strategies to heal the school, the teachers and the community.
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