Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care report says ‘unimaginable’ and widespread abuse in care between 1950 and 2019 amounts to a ‘national disgrace’.
200,000 people out of an estimated 655,000 in care were abused and many more neglected, with Māori disproportionately affected and subjected to overt and targeted racism.
READ MORE: The full report: What the inquiry found about abuse in state and faith-based care during the 1950s-2019
The Government has described the abuse experienced by New Zealanders in state- and faith-based institutions as horrific, unimaginable and despicable – saying the Prime Minister will deliver a formal apology later in the year and seek redress for survivors.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon specifically discussed the abuse that occurred at Lake Alice Hospital, a psychiatric facility, and issued a formal acknowledgement that this abuse was “torture”.
Luxon made the acknowledgement of torture and discussed the “unimaginable” abuse at other state- and faith-based institutions during a press conference ahead of the public release of the long-standing Royal Commission of Inquiry Abuse in State and Faith-based Care report.
Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care report says ‘unimaginable’ and widespread abuse in care between 1950 and 2019 amounts to a ‘national disgrace’.
200,000 people out of an estimated 655,000 in care were abused and many more neglected, with Māori disproportionately affected and subjected to overt and targeted racism.
READ MORE: The full report: What the inquiry found about abuse in state and faith-based care during the 1950s-2019
The Government has described the abuse experienced by New Zealanders in state- and faith-based institutions as horrific, unimaginable and despicable – saying the Prime Minister will deliver a formal apology later in the year and seek redress for survivors.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon specifically discussed the abuse that occurred at Lake Alice Hospital, a psychiatric facility, and issued a formal acknowledgement that this abuse was “torture”.
Luxon made the acknowledgement of torture and discussed the “unimaginable” abuse at other state- and faith-based institutions during a press conference ahead of the public release of the long-standing Royal Commission of Inquiry Abuse in State and Faith-based Care report.
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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.