FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW!!!

Each week, a new child is admitted to starship hospital suffering serious injuries after being bashed, mashed or maimed.
They are overwhelmingly BROWN and they are overwhelmingly MAORI..

This is a big problem within maoridom thats sees more maori children abuse and die each year than any other ethnicity, and at the hand of their own WHANAU..

James Whakaruru, Lillybing, the Kahui twins.- Are all disturbing deaths that show Maori adults killing Maori children..

Child abuse is a stain upon MAORIDOM......

We as a people (maori)need to do more to stop this problem Stop turning a blind eye and pretending it's not happening and that it is not a maori problem because it is!!!!

There are so many overwhelming facts that show us how bad this problem has gotten within our people but do we really need 2 see these facts??? When all you really need 2 do is read the papers watch the news, it is all around us how can you not see the problem??

We need 2 learn from what is going on, so we can see the sign's, so we can hear the cries so we can at long last open our eye's and see the problem before it is 2 late...

We need to save our Maori children with out them there is no future we are nothing....

Yep sure am!! And proud, even tho i look white as in the winter i have the last name to prove & Ngati Maniapoto, the undefeated tribe lol Te Rohe Potai

Glow, I'd like to take this one step further and ask WHAT needs to be done?

Obviously steps need to be taken before things like James Whakaruru, Lillybing, the Kahui twins happen but WHAT?

This is something that has been bugging me for a long time...

Teaching and supporting people who are at risk is important but how can you help someone who doesn't think they need it? It can't just be a case of "informing the authorities" becuase these authorities are frequently powerless or don't have the resources to help. Something BIG needs to happen to make a change but what is that something?!

Anna wrote: And i mean that in a general New Zealand sense, not just targeting maori... I think it needs to be seen as a NZ issue, not just maori.

I,M WITH YOU THERE yes there are maori childern being bashed to death but so are white,asin,ectectect you can not say its a maori proplem when its sooo wide spred the only way it will stop if people like my friend standup and say something report these horrable people and makee sure the pushment fits the crime (and yes i am part maori )