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NEW ZEALAND INQUIRY FINDS 200,000 CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS ABUSED IN CARE

By Lucy Craymer and Alasdair Pal
July 24, 20243:34 PM GMT+2Updated 2 days ago
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 * Nearly 1 in 3 children, vulnerable adults in care abused since 1950
 * PM says 'dark and sorrowful day', official apology on Nov. 12
 * Compensation for survivors expected to run into billions

WELLINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
apologised and promised reforms on Wednesday after a public inquiry found some
200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in state and
religious care over the last 70 years.
Nearly one-in-three children and vulnerable adults in care from 1950 to 2019
experienced some form of abuse, the report said, a finding that could leave the
government facing billions of dollars in fresh compensation claims.
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"This is a dark and sorrowful day in New Zealand's history as a society and as a
state, we should have done better, and I am determined that we will do so,"
Luxon told a press conference.
An official apology would follow on Nov. 12, he added.
Survivors and their supporters filled the public gallery of the country's
parliament as the report was debated, while still more watched from a separate
room.
After Luxon spoke, likening the abuse against children to torture at one state
care facility, Lake Alice, many stood and sang an Indigenous Maori song about
love and unity.
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The report by a Royal Commission of Inquiry spoke to more than 2,300 survivors
of abuse in New Zealand, which has a population of 5.3 million. The inquiry
detailed a litany of abuses in state and faith-based care, including rape,
sterilisation and electric shocks, which peaked in the 1970s.
Those from the Indigenous Maori community were especially vulnerable to abuse,
the report found, as well as those with mental or physical disabilities.

Civil and faith leaders fought to cover up abuse by moving abusers to other
locations and denying culpability, with many victims dying before seeing
justice, the report added.
"It is a national disgrace that hundreds of thousands of children, young people
and adults were abused and neglected in the care of the state and faith-based
institutions," the report said.

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It made 138 recommendations, including calling for public apologies from New
Zealand's government, as well as the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury,
heads of the Catholic and Anglican churches respectively, who have previously
condemned child abuse.

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In a statement the Catholic Church in New Zealand said it was carefully
reviewing the report.
"We will ensure that action follows our review of the inquiry's findings," the
statement said, adding it had previously acknowledged the abuse occurred.
The Vatican press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Anglican Church in New Zealand said in a statement: "We acknowledge and take
full responsibility for our failures to provide the safe, caring and nurturing
environment those who have been in our care had a right to expect and to
receive."
The Methodist Church of New Zealand said the injustices revealed by the inquiry
could not be overstated and thanked survivors for the courage they showed in
sharing their stories. It committed to implementing the report's
recommendations.
The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand said it would respond once it had read
the report.


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The report said the average lifetime cost to an abuse survivor was estimated in
2020 to be approximately NZ$857,000 ($511,200.50) per person, though the it did
not make clear the amount of compensation available for survivors.
Luxon said he believed the total compensation due to survivors could run into
billions of dollars.
"We're opening up the redress conversations and we're going through that work
with survivor groups," he said.
The inquiry also recommended payments to families who have been cared for by
survivors of abuse due to the intergenerational trauma they suffered, as well as
a review of compensation paid in previous child abuse cases including at the
Lake Alice adolescent unit.
"The most important element is to recognise and acknowledge the survivors for
the reality and the truth of their lives," said Tracey McIntosh, a sociologist
at the University of Auckland.
The report also called for the government to set up a Care Safe Agency
responsible for overseeing the industry, as well new legislation including
mandatory reporting of suspected abuse, including admissions made during
religious confession. ($1 = 1.6764 New Zealand dollars)

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Reporting by Lucy Craymer in Wellington and Alasdair Pal in Sydney; additional
reporting by Joshua Mc Elwee in the Vatican; Editing by Michael Perry and Alex
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