Labour’s most senior Māori MP Willie Jackson says the way children and young people have been abused in care is a black mark on New Zealand.
The report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith Based Care released yesterday is a harrowing record of physical and sexual violence, neglect, cover-ups and denial stretching back to the 1950s and leaving hundreds of thousands of lives =damaged.
Mr Jackson says the Government needs to act quickly on the recommendations.
“To take kids’ innocence from them. To take their lives from them. It’s affected them in so many ways through various institutions, just shocking really and I know a few people who’ve been dealt to by the state and some of those people have turned out to be terrific people but so many have not been able to recover and sadly led unfortunate lives, terrible lives,” he says.
