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Thread ID: 120591	2011-09-15 22:17:00	Ignoring child abuse now criminal offence	SP8's (9836)	PC World Chat

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1231494	2011-09-15 22:17:00	In the news this morning .... www.odt.co.nz But if you make people laugh, you can get off. No bloody wonder this country is going down the gurgler ... :angry	SP8's (9836)
1231495	2011-09-15 22:26:00	So it should be but it could be a tough one to prove sometimes. As for the Judge that let that so called comedian off, she needs some time in the real world.	mikebartnz (21)
1231496	2011-09-16 09:21:00	Turning a blind eye to child abuse will now be classified as criminal after Parliament tonight passed a law to hold people accountable. The Crimes Amendment Bill (No 2) creates a new offence of failing to take reasonable steps to protect a child or vulnerable adult from the risk of death, grievous bodily harm or sexual assault, which comes with a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment. So the Judge should be prosecuted now then.	pctek (84)
1231497	2011-09-16 09:46:00	So the Judge should be prosecuted now then. In the case concerned, absolutely! The judge seems as screwey as the 'comedian'. I'll be happily avoiding anything that guy features in or promotes in future. Can't believe I saw him on tv earlier tonight.	Paul.Cov (425)
1231498	2011-09-16 10:13:00	Looks like I better start packing for a spell inside. I may not have turned a blind eye, but I definitely failed to turn a couple of wobbly ones to every single case of child abuse in the country all day today. Better wash my hands before it is too late. I have wilfully failed to detect or report a single case all day, and dedicated experts assure us that an offence against children occurs every 9.6 seconds. When judges can give people "deterrent" sentences things can get pretty grim, that person is not being sentenced for what they did, but for what some person unknown person may or may not do or (have done) at some unknown time in an as yet unidentified place. Perhaps I could get time deducted for unknown acts not committed by millions of unknown people all over the place very often. That has to count for something (besides legal aid).	R2x1 (4628)
1231499	2011-09-16 20:52:00	In my neck of the woods it's not unusual to walk through town to find some huge lump sitting down in a public area bellowing out to its kids "come here or I'll kill you". I hear the "I'll kill you" bit so often it could almost be considered a common way to end a sentence, much like the Aussies end a sentence bizarely with 'but'. So am I, and everyone else in town to conculde that the child is in danger? I'd certainly agree that their parent is less than ideal, but is this parent a threat? A threat to decency, yes. A threat to intellect, yes. A threat to the elastic in their tracksuit pants, yes. But a physical threat to kids? Slowly killing them with the same crappy diet I suppose. I've never once seen one of these parents actually get off their butt to do anything with/to the child concerned, and fully expect the kid could outrun these lumps that are bellowing at them. The huge mum who always comes around with the child in her pushchair being fed chips and a sugary drink - well you could argue she's abusing the kid, endangering his health. Should the cops be called?	Paul.Cov (425)
1231500	2011-09-16 22:29:00	They are forcing people to come forward with the threat of imprisonment. This seems wrong somehow	Gobe1 (6290)
1231501	2011-09-16 22:44:00	Why not extend it to include witnesses to assaults?, burglaries?, shoplifting?, speaking ill of the govt? ....	fred_fish (15241)
1231502	2011-09-16 23:35:00	Good start,the people who do most of the offending wont like it though.	prefect (6291)
1231503	2011-09-17 00:28:00	Why not extend it to include witnesses to assaults?, burglaries?, shoplifting?, speaking ill of the govt? .... True it becomes a slippery slope.	mikebartnz (21)
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