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Māori tikanga hui lets ‘well-known’ man walk free from violent charges

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Sep 03, 2025
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Tikanga Māori and Te Ao Māori concepts will be taught at all law schools

Just a few weeks ago I wrote about a man who had amassed a massive collection of child abuse material, somehow the courts handed him permanent name suppression. He can live out his life in secrecy, his identity hidden from the very public he endangered, with his reputation protected more than the children he exploited.

Now, we have another case that show…

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