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Like so many people in New Zealand I am saddened and appalled by the abuse of Nia & the Kahui Twins and, unfortunately, many other defenseless children.

I saw on TV that there are around 12 cases like these every year. The New Zealand Herald on Saturday said the StarShip team dealt with around 600 cases of various forms of child abuse a year!

It absolutely has to stop. How anyone could do this is beyond me. I understand that some people have horrible childhoods, but this is not an excuse to do things like this.

I think the days of not wanting to pry are well and truly behind us. Not wanting to get involved will solve nothing. I know I'm singing to the choir saying this to the parents who are on this site, but I just needed to get it out there.

I think it's time for us all to be 'Collective Parents', be the voice for those precious little ones who have none. We love and care for our own babies, we need to love and care for our 'neighbour's' child too.

To be honest, I didn't know who to call if I thought some child was in danger so I googled it and found this link:

http://www.cyf.govt.nz/text/SuspectAbuse.htm

Please visit it and read the information.

Thank you for reading my 'soap box' speech, I'm off to hug my child...

Hi, I still can't get my head around how people can do such things to children. Children are our futures and need love and nurturing. It is so sad to watch the news these days and hear about all these wee babes being beaten and killed.

I watch the kids at my oldest boys school, some of them the bruses are obvious, some they aren't. Some of the behaviour of these children is really bad. My son has come home from school covered with bruses because a kid from a bad household didn't like that I gave my son a hug and kiss at the school gate that morning.

Last night when we went for our family walk a whole bunch of bad kids from the neighbourhood were at the bottom of our street. To be perfectly honest, if my partner had not been with us, I would have been too scared to walk past them. One sat on his bike accross the footpath and would not move, so I had to go around him with the pushchair. He laughed at us and tried to stare me down. His brother tried to kick my oldest boy, and when I told him to leave my son alone, he said "shut the f**k up bitch"

Its getting really bad, I have to call the principal at the school this morning and let him know what happened, becasue that boy will undoubtidly try to beat my son up at school today after last night.

These children are aged between 9yo and 13yo. It sickens me to think of what the behaviour of the parents must be like for them to be that bad themselves.

I am going to be involving the police. I am sick of the intimidation from these little so and so's.

i cannot believe that they would treat you and your family that way. good on you for going to the police because someone needs to intervene before it gets worse

just an update..

The little bully was at my son all day at school and even the teachers at the darn school wont do anything about it!

So I am off to the school in the morning to lay an official complaint there too!!

These gangs of kids are getting quite rediculous. We live in quite a good area, the houses sure cost an arm and a leg, but the biggest problem seems to be comming from the renters kids. Every one of those little so and so's in that gang is a kid of a renter. And even though the parents have been approached time and time again, they do nothing about it!

Thats why I purchased the house we live in now. The renters kids were absolute mongrils and were part of that gang.

I am not saying that renters are bad, I was a renter for years before I saved to get my own place.

Just all these kids are really pissing me off. I know some of them are from bad families and their parents are in gangs.

I just wish that they would not pick on poeple. I have watched as some of the elderly neighbours have crossed the street to go around these kids because they are too scared to go past them.

Frustrating is not the word for it!

i tend to think that children acting out like the one that hurt your son at school after you kissed him good bye was acting out because in a round a bout way his parents never did that for him, all kids wont to feel accepted and loved! not that this i any excuse for this type pf behaviour case its not! terrible to think that they are likely yo gorw up and be just the same to thier own kids.. such a horrible circle of life! and so hard to break!
hopefully they will move haha perhaps you should tell the cops, atleast then if things continue they have evidence to back up the landlords if things turn nasty and theyare told to move/?

It is sad. There are so many kids at school that are just crying out for attention and love. They show it in the wrong ways. Its heartbreaking.

Again, I wish so much that I could just give them all a great big cuddle and tell them how precious they are and that everything will be alright.

are, its all they know and im sure its all they will ever know so come the day when they have kids and it will be just the same, im sure at times they will see what they are doing to their kids but not have the knowledge and know how to change it..and so the story continues!

These poor babys are just going to continue the cycle, generation after generation. But thats what has already happened, and now the babys are dyeing from it.

I told my partner this morning that if we could rescue all these babies that we would have to line our house with cots for them all!!!

He just shook his head and laughed at me.

But he knows I would seriously do that if I could! I'm bad enough with animals. Both dogs that we had were rescued from bad homes, all 3 cats are the same!!

If he can aviod driving past the spca he will casue he knows I will want to go in and see all the animals and maybe bring 1 or 2 home.... but he's just as bad as I am..

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through my job i have seen child abuse. Some parents think hiting their children is fun. would you like it if somebody put you inside a dryer and turned it on. I hope Kris Kahu rots in jail for a very long time.

As a mum of 5 beautiful kids and number 6 due in july, it sickens me to see all this abuse being reported on the news, in magazines or even seeing it on the streets. As parents we are always stretched to breaking points sometimes now or then BUT there is NO excuse for abuse what so ever. We all choose to be parents, and as parents we have the roll as the carer, the roll model and the person your lovely kids come to for support and cuddles, so why on earth are there these "poor excuse of a parents" out there.................??? Chilren are meant to be our flesh and blood for life, not as a boxing bag for WORTHLESS TRASH!!!! I hope that all of those that abuse kiddies of any age will get what they deserve!!!

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