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2004-1224 - The Press -
Extradition ruling delay
NZPA - A Sydney magistrate said yesterday that he would hand down a decision
in mid- February as to whether three St John of God clergymen would be
extradited to New Zealand to face child abuse charges. The trio -- two
brothers and a priest -- face 64 charges of sexual abuse of students at
Christchurch's Marylands school, which was run by the St John of God order
between 1955 and its closure 30 years later.
2004-0924 - The Press -
Indecency charges
A
former St John of God brother has been committed for trial on three counts of
inducing an indecent act, after a short depositions hearing in the
Christchurch District Court yesterday. Bernard Kevin McGrath faces three
charges of inducing a boy under 16 to do an indecent act, allegedly committed
between February and June 1977.
2004-0904 - The Press -
Alleged victims use compensation to track priests
by
Yvonne Martin - Money from a Catholic Order is being used to hire a private
investigator to track errant priests and brothers. The search is being driven
by five men who claim they were abused as boys by clergy visiting their
Christchurch orphanage run by the Sisters of Nazareth. They are hiring a
private eye to find the alleged offenders using compensation money about to
be paid by the nuns. The five claim they were abused by unidentified priests
or brothers who visited St Joseph's Orphanage in Halswell to take Mass and
hear confessions in the 1950s and 1960s.
2004-0901 - The Press -
Child sex inquiry slams churches, State
by
Sean Scanlon - Canterbury victims of child sex abuse are buoyed by an
Australian report damning churches and State institutions. A report presented
to the Australian Senate this week found governments, churches and care
agencies had shown a "complete lack of understanding or ...
responsibility for the level of neglect, abuse and assault that occurred in
their institutions".
2004-0711 - Sunday Star Times - The
curse among the clergy
by
Sarah Stuart - Sexual abuse by Catholic priests seems to be the new white
collar crime and, as SARAH STUART reports, genuine clergy are having to pay
for the sins of a few.
2004-0710 - NZ Herald -
Patients lived in fear of 'The Treatment'
by Phil Taylor - Brutal treatment of patients was
the culture of the Porirua Mental Hospital in the 1960s, four former workers
have said. The four women told the Weekend Herald that electric shock
treatment was routinely used as punishment and patients were drugged into
zombie-like states to make them more manageable. The women - students at the
time - said part of their duties was to hold patients down while shock
treatment was applied.
2004-0709 - One News -
Children's home abuse investigated
A top Wellington police officer is to head an
investigation into mulitiple complaints of sexual abuse against a man who ran
a children's home in Wellington nearly 50 years ago. The accusations are
against Walter Lake, 83, a justice of the peace who
headed the Presbyterian church's Berhampore childen's home in the 1950s and
1960s. Kathleen Batchelor is one of at least seven people who claim Lake, the
former head of the Presbyterian church's social services division, sexually
assaulted them when they were children in his care.
2004-0703 - Nelson Mail -
Patient abuse claims on rise
by Sheriee Smith - Complaints of serious
mistreatment of patients at Ngawhatu
Psychiatric Hospital
are mounting. Since the Government announced last month it was looking at
more than 200 complaints of abuse at psychiatric hospitals around New Zealand, nine former patients at Nelson's Ngawhatu Hospital
have lodged claims with Wellington
lawyer Roger Chapman.
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