26 Jul 2024

Church group destroyed 27 years of records of children in their care

From Checkpoint, 4:41 pm on 26 July 2024

There are calls for the police to investigate why a religious organisation deliberately destroyed 27 years worth of records of children in its care. The Royal Commission of Inquiry said its investigation into abuse at Presbyterian Support Otago was made particularly difficult because the organisation destroyed its records in 2017 and 2018, Amy Williams reports.