24 Jul 2024

200,000 people abused in state or faith-based care

From Checkpoint, 4:07 pm on 24 July 2024

The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry has found at least 200,000 children, young people and adults have been abused in state or faith-based care. The Royal Commission's final report - and its findings and recommendations - have just been made public, laying bare the failure of the state and churches to protect New Zealand's most vulnerable and the shocking scale, depravity and extremity of the abuse faced by those in care, Timothy Brown speaks to Susana Lei'ataua.