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Ashley Skinner, seven, hasn’t been seen for four years by his father Michael Turberville.

He is believed to have been taken to Australia last year by his mother Joanne Skinner, a trade union worker.

The President of the High Court’s Family Division has taken the unusual step of lifting the reporting restrictions that apply in children’s cases in the hope that publicity will help trace the boy.

Sir Mark Potter said: “This is a boy who has been snatched by his mother during court proceedings intended to decide how much contact he should have with his father. (more…)

You must be the judge, to protect your children:

Boy’s abductors avoid jail terms
December 18, 2008, 12:43 pm
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/5221600/boys-abductors-avoid-jail-terms/

A father and daughter who admitted abducting the woman’s young son in Hamilton in 2006 have been sentenced to home detention.

Dick Halton Headley, 70, and Kay Halton Skelton, 38, pleaded guilty in the High Court at Hamilton in October to a single charge of abducting Skelton’s six-year-old son. (more…)

A 33-year-old mother was charged with having sex with a minor three weeks after she found out she was pregnant to the boy, a court was told.

The woman was remanded on bail till February 13 for trial in the Timaru District Court after depositions before justices of the peace yesterday.

The woman uttered one word yesterday “No” when asked whether she wished to plead guilty to a charge of sexual connection with the boy, then aged 15, between July and September this year. (more…)

A Dunedin mother of five who killed her 22-month-old daughter earlier this year escaped a custodial sentence today.

The 27-year-old, who has permanent name suppression, admitted infanticide after an initial charge of murder was dropped.

She hit and smothered the girl for crying incessantly, leading to her choking to death on regurgitated food.

In Dunedin High Court today, Justice Graham Panckhurst said the woman could not be held fully responsible as she was severely depressed at the time of the attack.

He sentenced her to two years’ intensive supervision and 100 hours of community work.

If you are visiting from overseas and don’t know of this case; here is a link to pick it up.

Back to today….

Once again the Government is asked for an inquiry to this case after three terms of left wing. Today we have the National Party in leadership. They certainly weren’t put there for John Key’s lack of experience.

Peter Ellis talking of the vested interests of officials in the Ministry of Justice: “I have high hopes that [Mr Power] will have the moral courage and political will to certainly listen to the advice of the [Justice] ministry, but to remember that if the ministry consists of the same career bureaucrats that have been in charge of [the case] for the last 17 years … that they have a vested interest to leave it as the status quo.”

Peter Ellis has always stated his innocence and after he had served his 10 year sentence he stayed in prison where he has now served 15 years because he cannot get parole unless he states he is guilty. And he won’t. They say, “Anyone with half a brain can see this man is innocent.” I am of the opinion it is not the brain that the left lacks. It is something else ….
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1. UNICEF: Daycare is “A high-stakes gamble with today’s children and tomorrow’s world”

Evening Standard (UK) 11 Dec 08
The drive to push mothers back to work is leaving children at risk of long-term emotional damage, Unicef warned today. A detailed study of childcare policies found that leaving under-threes in all-day nurseries made them more likely to be aggressive, disobedient and lonely. The Unicef report, which draws on extensive scientific and psychological data, recommends that all children should, where possible, be cared for by parents at home during the first 12 months of life. READ MORE
READ Full report http://www.unicef.org.nz/page/241/InnocentiReportCard8.html
READ “Extended Childcare No Miracle for Children” by Bob McCoskrie http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10462594&pnum=0

NZ childcare use near top of Unicef list

The Press 12 December 2008
Tens of thousands of Kiwi toddlers are being booked into childcare at world-leading rates and our world-lagging rates of paid parental leave are taking some of the blame. A new report by Unicef rates New Zealand 23rd out of 25 countries for effective paid parental leave. Kiwi parents get 14 weeks paid parental leave. The average in the rest of the developed world is approaching one year. The Unicef report also shows the childcare rates for the nation’s under-fives are among the highest in the world. READ MORE

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A woman who demanded her 9-year-old daughter’s paper round money before punching her in the back of the head did it because she was “stressed”, a court has heard.

The 34-year-old solo mother pleaded guilty to a charge of assault on a child in Dannevirke District court yesterday, for the incident on December 1. (more…)

The National Party has gone crazy putting through laws lately without anyone’s say. But… we have a chance now.

National is expected to pull back on the number of bills it will push through under urgency as it starts its second week in government.

Legislation giving police the power to issue on-the-spot protection orders for victims of domestic violence would be given a first reading then be sent to select committee this week. (more…)

Thanx to Counter feminist for putting this together with help from Italy and also Factory for putting it it up on his site. This is teamwork after all. Sooooo, what do you think? Is it good enough for New Zealand? Is it relevant?

PRINCIPLES AND GOALS: UOMINI 3000 – MENS MOVEMENT (Translated from the Italian by R. Randazzo)

Uomini3000 is a movement of opinion characterised by the following principles and objectives:

• PRINCIPLES Uomini3000 recognises and affirms:

1. The existence of natural differences between the genders.

2. The extreme immorality of certain social forces, and at the same time, the very real opportunity that these forces have to deny, ignore, compromise, and repress these differences and any expression of them.

3. The necessity of cooperation between the genders, and at the same time the inevitability of opposition between them.

4. The scientific inconsistency and dubious morality of any claim by one gender to describe the state, condition, needs, experiences, or the value of the other gender.

• THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS

Uomini3000 defines the current situation in the following terms:
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There was a time when I believed that justice may be blind but surely it is not dumb. I figured (naively) that students actually studied the law and that all people were protected under it. In a funny way it was like a security blanket and I got on with life believing that the law had my interests at heart and that of my family and friends.

I guess, the child within me wants to continue to believe this … but as I get smacked around the head with reality from time to time, I find myself in disgust of the world I live in.

How can it be that lobby groups have more control of the way the world works than ordinary working class people? How can lobby groups have more power than politicians or judges? (more…)