Media Release Tue 9th May 2017
Right to Life asks when is the government really going to get serious about child abuse and recognise that it begins in the womb? Why is a preschool teacher convicted as a criminal for lightly smacking a child’s hand, while a doctor who violently kills thousands of children in the womb is granted a knighthood by the Queen for services to women?
A 59 year old preschool teacher and day care manager was found guilty in the High Court in Auckland on Wednesday, 3rd of May of 10 charges of assaulting children in her care. Six of the charges were for smacking a child on the back of the hand. In defence, the accused claimed that she had not smacked a child but had merely tapped the child on the hand. The defendant was released on bail and was remanded to appear in the Court in July for sentencing. The complaints had been laid by the Education Department which was pleased with the verdict. The prosecutor stated that the smacking was “gratuitous violence.” The teacher now has a criminal conviction for assaulting children; has justice been done? This sad case highlights the hypocrisy of our claim that we care about our children. On one hand we have the Ministry of Education having these charges brought to Court to protect children from a light smack or tap on the back of the hand. on the other hand we have the Ministry of Health providing a “termination of pregnancy service” to violently murder more than 13,000 unborn children each year. Something is badly wrong.
We have a law that states that you may not smack a child and at the same time we have a law that is allowing vulnerable children in their first nine months of life to be violently torn limb from limb and killed by doctors in what is euphemistically called “a reproductive health service or a termination of pregnancy service.“ This “service” is provided in our Public Hospitals paid for by the state as a core health service with unlimited funding and no waiting list. When are we going to recognise the truth that child abuse begins in the womb? We have this distraught and caring preschool teacher convicted in our Court for child abuse and branded for life as a criminal while those who distinguish themselves in killing the unborn receive a knighthood for “services to women“. This hypocrisy is an outrage and an intolerable burden on the conscience of our nation.
Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life
Stop the hurt is going to be a slogan I will use when I stand as electorate candidate for the Hunua electorate. I have in the past stood for ACT but can no longer do so given the party leaders position on euthanasia. Anyone who advocates abortion or euthanasia is not fit for public office. I am going to stand as an Indepeñdent. – as a candidate for life.
Well done Ian.