I cannot imagine what the parents of yet another toddler run over in his driveway must be feeling. I have always though that these sorts of accidents are amongst the most tragic and most horrible. I once had to attempt to resuscitate a toddler in the middle of a car park. The distraught mother had backed over [...]

I see that Karen Aim’s Killer was a 14 year old boy at the time of her murder. I have been thinking about how a 14 year old could do such a heinous deed. How could a 12 year old like Bailey Kauriki help kill Michael Choy? How could two 15 year old girls murder [...]

Apparently, New Zealand has the second highest rate of bullying in the world. This comes as no surprise to me. I have two daughters who can only be described as “petite”. The eldest, age 22, is only 4’6″. When she first started at high school, she was bullied unmercifully. We took the matter to the principal of [...]

There is a very sad litany in the newspapers today. They are the terrible stories of dead and damaged children. Three of them. An unnamed 4-month-old baby lies in hospital with a fractured skull, it’s family silent on who did this vile thing. The trial of the murderer of 2-year-old Jhia Te Tua, killed in [...]

In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Adams describes the ultimate bureaucrat, the Vogon thus: A Vogon would not lift a finger to save his own grandmother from the Ravenous Bug-blatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, lost, found, queried, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried [...]