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Defence Minister Phil
Goff says a number of legal steps have to be taken before a long-awaited
report into alleged physical and sexual abuse at the army's former cadet
school in Waiouru can be made public. The inquiry by former
High Court Judge David Morris had been set to report back in March. It was triggered by
numerous historic claims teenagers were physically and sexually abused at
Waiouru Army base and also looked at the fatal shooting of army cadet Grant
Bain in 1981. The abuse is alleged to
have happened at the Army's cadet school at Waiouru, which was open from 1948
to 1991. Goff says he can
understand how the delay was causing frustration for Bain's family. Grant Bain was
17-years-old when he entered the Regular Force Cadet School at Waiouru in
January 1981. Three weeks later he was dead, shot on a Friday night in
barracks by a corporal a few months older than himself who was supposed to be
supervising the younger men. Goff says the Bain
family will receive a copy of the report before it is published. |
