YouTube - The Timaru Lady speaks out - herself
The history. Two years ago the woman who is pictured in the youtube video was acquitted by a jury for beating her son on two separate occasions, once with a cane and once with a whip. Note in the video the man she refers to as her husband is not the childs father.
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Because of this case, A politician called Sue Bradford introduced a private members bill into parliament to repeal section 59, a section in our crimes acts allowing the 'reasonable use of force' against children.
Here is the site for the repeal of section 59
what in the video she calls 'syphs' is CYFS
And before I led you up the garden path, the womans statements in the above video should be tempered with the knowledge that she is currently facing charges of binding another son hand and foot on the side of the road and along with her husband kicking and punching that son. The husband, the childs stepfather, has plead guilty, she is again pleading not guilty under section 59.
New Zealand IIRC has the highest youth suicide rate per capita in the developed world.
We have IIRC the highest number of murdered children per capita in the developed world.
We have the highest rate of violence toward children per capita in the developed world.
Anyone wants more sources or info let me know, but it's hard to find good sources on this as the Government controls the statistics.
Much has been made recently of a poll which stated that 80% of New Zealanders were opposed to the repeal of the act, which I personally find astounding, but then looking at the murder, assault and suicide statistics, maybe I shouldn't be.
I myself was hit many times as a kid, both by my parents and teachers, and it didn't make a blind bit of difference to my behaviour except I never really trusted my Dad afterwards, and a couple of occasions where I had to explain away the bruising to inquisitive friends or why I couldn't do various activities.
I have never found or percieved the need to hit my children, infact it is one of the few situations where ironically I would use force if someone else were to attempt to. My daughter is 7 and while still being something of a messy eater is otherwise perfectly civilised, my son of course is just entering the terrible twos.
As such I am one of the twenty percent who believe that the protections under section 59 should be removed, and children gain the same rights to freedom from assaults as adults.
What do you all think?
The history. Two years ago the woman who is pictured in the youtube video was acquitted by a jury for beating her son on two separate occasions, once with a cane and once with a whip. Note in the video the man she refers to as her husband is not the childs father.
Jury clears mother over 'six of the best'
12:00AM Friday May 27, 2005
A mother who admitted hitting her son with a horse whip and a bamboo cane based on her Christian beliefs has been found not guilty of assaulting the boy.
The 39-year-old, who received final name suppression, was on trial in the Timaru District Court before a jury on two charges of assaulting her son, then aged under 14.
It took the jury one hour and 10 minutes yesterday to reach a decision.
The woman admitted giving her son "six of the best" with a cane for misbehaving at school, and striking him three to four times with a horse whip after an incident in which the boy waved a baseball bat at her partner.
12:00AM Friday May 27, 2005
A mother who admitted hitting her son with a horse whip and a bamboo cane based on her Christian beliefs has been found not guilty of assaulting the boy.
The 39-year-old, who received final name suppression, was on trial in the Timaru District Court before a jury on two charges of assaulting her son, then aged under 14.
It took the jury one hour and 10 minutes yesterday to reach a decision.
The woman admitted giving her son "six of the best" with a cane for misbehaving at school, and striking him three to four times with a horse whip after an incident in which the boy waved a baseball bat at her partner.
Because of this case, A politician called Sue Bradford introduced a private members bill into parliament to repeal section 59, a section in our crimes acts allowing the 'reasonable use of force' against children.
Here is the site for the repeal of section 59
what in the video she calls 'syphs' is CYFS
And before I led you up the garden path, the womans statements in the above video should be tempered with the knowledge that she is currently facing charges of binding another son hand and foot on the side of the road and along with her husband kicking and punching that son. The husband, the childs stepfather, has plead guilty, she is again pleading not guilty under section 59.
New Zealand IIRC has the highest youth suicide rate per capita in the developed world.
We have IIRC the highest number of murdered children per capita in the developed world.
We have the highest rate of violence toward children per capita in the developed world.
Anyone wants more sources or info let me know, but it's hard to find good sources on this as the Government controls the statistics.
Much has been made recently of a poll which stated that 80% of New Zealanders were opposed to the repeal of the act, which I personally find astounding, but then looking at the murder, assault and suicide statistics, maybe I shouldn't be.
I myself was hit many times as a kid, both by my parents and teachers, and it didn't make a blind bit of difference to my behaviour except I never really trusted my Dad afterwards, and a couple of occasions where I had to explain away the bruising to inquisitive friends or why I couldn't do various activities.
I have never found or percieved the need to hit my children, infact it is one of the few situations where ironically I would use force if someone else were to attempt to. My daughter is 7 and while still being something of a messy eater is otherwise perfectly civilised, my son of course is just entering the terrible twos.
As such I am one of the twenty percent who believe that the protections under section 59 should be removed, and children gain the same rights to freedom from assaults as adults.
What do you all think?
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