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The number of boys who say they were sexually abused by a former Rosmini College teacher has increased to at least 12 – but a decision on whether or not to extradite him is yet to be made. Brother William Jackson, who went on to become a priest, was a music teacher at the Auckland…

Empowering sexual assault survivors and highlighting the importance of education as prevention is set to be the focus for new Australian of the Year Grace Tame. The 26-year-old from Tasmania was awarded the honour last night, having already been named the Apple Isle’s Australian of the Year. Ms Tame was awarded for her tireless advocacy…

A group representing some survivors of abuse in faith-based care wants churches to come out and support the call for the setting up of an independent body to deal with all complaints of abuse. Survivors have told the inquiry into Abuse in Care that the new body, which must be separate from the state and…

Mike Subritzky is a team of one committed to helping heal the unknown number of male sexual assault survivors in Taranaki. Subritzky, a trained counsellor with a background in chaplaincy, runs Male Survivors Taranaki which falls under the national body Male Survivors Aotearoa. He says statistics show 1 in 6 men have been sexually abused but it’s…

Police investigating historical sexual offending allegations at Dilworth School in Auckland have identified over 80 additional accusers. An additional 33 charges have been laid against five men as part of Operation Beverly, Detective Senior Sergeant Geoff Baber said today in a statement. All five men, aged between 68 and 78, are already before the court after…

Police say a former Scout leader charged with historical sexual offences involving children over 40 years may have had other victims. The man was arrested in March and faces a total of 26 charges. They are: seven charges of unlawful sexual connection with a male aged 12-16; 17 charges of indecent assault on a boy…

A former school teacher has been sentenced over a historic indecent assault. Former Otago Boys’ High School maths teacher David Russell Bond, 69, appeared for sentencing before Judge Michael Turner in the Dunedin District Court on Thursday on a charge of indecent assault. His lawyer, Anne Stevens QC, said her client was no longer a…

Historical abuse suffered at the hands of some fellow students and staff at Dilworth School have been outlined to the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care. Neil Harding, who is 55, went to the Anglican boarding school in Auckland in 1977. A number of men are before the courts charged with indecent assault relating to historical abuse…

A former Christ’s College student sexually assaulted and abused by other students in the 1970s says it was “systematic deliberate abuse” designed to shame him. Jim Goodwin attended the Christchurch school as a boarder from 1970 to 1974 and told the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care in Auckland on Monday about the assault by…

A man has presented a harrowing testimony of being terrified as a boy for every day of school through two years, at the Abuse in Care inquiry. Known only as John, the 52 year said he was sexually abused 40 years ago at the Marist-run Xavier Intermediate School in Christchurch, between 1980 and 1982, by…