A principal adviser to the Māori hearing of the Royal Commission on Abuse in Care wants to see other agencies pick up the inquiry’s work.
The commission’s report made public last week estimated at least 200,000 of the 655,000 children and young people put in the care of state or religious institutions since 1950 were subjected to abuse including violence and sexual abuse.
Among its recommendations were that police set up a special unit to pursue cases against abusers.
Pāora Crawford Moyle, a survivor herself, says most survivors are tired after the six-year inquiry process.
It’s time for others to do the right thing.
“Others need to be responsible for naming those who did the harm, for holding them to account, for holding systems to account, and let survivors have a back seat because we’re not just talking about one on one harm, we’re talking about intergeneration trauma where whole whanau, hapu and iwi have lost tracts of whakapapa,” she says.
Pāora Crawford Moyle says any redress needs to include an intergenerational element to help whānau rebuild from trauma.
