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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Charlotte Graham-McLay

New Zealand finds that state and religious institutions failed to prevent or stop decades of abuse

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New Zealand’s wide-ranging independent inquiry into the abuse of children and vulnerable adults in care over the span of five decades released a blistering final report Wednesday that the country’s state agencies and churches failed to prevent, stop or admit the abuse of those they were supposed to look after — even when they knew about it.

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