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Prime Minister encourages people with information relating to alleged 80s politician paedophile ring to come forward
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New Zealand Herald
Posted: July 7th, 2025
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/prime-minister-encour...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is fronting media after a walkabout with police in central Auckland. Earlier, the Prime Minister encouraged people with information about allegations of a paedophile ring in the 1980s to come forward to police. It follows the release of the final report from the Royal Commission into abuse in care, which referenced allegations of offending against children by politicians and public servants in the 1980s. The report states it received “deeply suspicious” evidence but it was “unable to make a finding that organised abuse of children and young people in State care occurred by groups of people in public positions of influence”. The long-awaited Royal Commission report into abuse in state and faith-based institutions was released on Wednesday. It found an estimated 200,000 people out of 655,000 in care were abused and many more neglected. The true number will never be known because some records were never created, had been lost or, in some cases, destroyed. The “unimaginable” abuse was widespread between 1950 and 2019 – and amounted to a “national disgrace”. Violence and sexual abuse were common, and in some cases children and young people were “trafficked” to members of the public for sex. “Instead of receiving care and support, children, young people and adults in care were exposed to unimaginable physical, emotional, mental and sexual abuse, severe exploitation and neglect,” the report says.
Note: This article is also available here. Watch an excellent segment by Australia's "60-Minutes" team "Spies, Lords and Predators" on a pedophile ring in the UK which leads directly to the highest levels of government. A second suppressed documentary, "Conspiracy of Silence," goes even deeper into this topic in the US. For more, read our concise summaries of news articles on sexual abuse scandals.
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