In May the Herald launched a campaign focusing on family violence in NZ. We are revisiting the issue with a spotlight on family harm over holiday period.

A child rapist has been jailed a decade after his crime when a mother realised what he did to her daughter while cleaning her room.

Prime Minister John Key is resisting growing pressure to further investigate historical child abuse in state care.

COMMENT: Note to Minister of Social Development Anne Tolley: Try stopping being a politician for a minute, and just listen.

A man who put a 3-year-old into a scalding bath, causing the boy's skin to "flake off", has been jailed for nearly four years.

COMMENT: The appalling treatment of hundreds under govt care demands answers - but Anne Tolley says no.

The Human Rights Commission has come out in support of an independent inquiry into the abuse of New Zealanders in state care, to ensure

A prominent judge has come out swinging after Social Development Minister Anne Tolley ruled out apologising for the abuse of children

Tanya Quedley, 48, was sexually abused by her own father from age 9 or 10 until she ran away at 14.

Almost 80 children have died in the care of the New Zealand state in the past 15 years - an average of five a year.

New Zealand has the fourth-highest rate of child deaths from assault in the OECD. Simon Collins visited three communities to look for the root causes of that bad child abuse record. First: Flaxmere.

NZ has the fourth-highest rate of child deaths from assault in the OECD. Simon Collins visited three communities to look for the root causes.

A Hastings primary school is bringing in self-defence tutors for its older girls because the girls are afraid of being sexually abused by older men.

Criminologist Greg Newbold said the fact the boy was abducted was very uncommon.

The harrowing last moments of an 11-year-old Australian girl murdered in her bed are revealed.

The fate of 3-year-old Aliayah Lunsford has stymied police and frustrated her family since she vanished more than five years ago.

One of the women jailed over the death of Rotorua toddler Nia Glassie has had her third child removed from her care by Child Youth and Family at birth.

New revelations in the JonBenet Ramsey case suggest a mysterious 911 call days before the murder foreshadowed the sickening crime.

The new Vulnerable Children's Ministry wants to recruit 1000 more foster parents in a dramatic bid to improve the quality of state care for children.

COMMENT: Recent cases indicate violence between and against children is widely accepted.

Adults being sentenced for sex offences against children, will now have to face the Judge as to whether they should go on the register.

Dame Lowell Goddard, who quit as head of the massive UK public inquiry into child abuse after just 18 months, had been on a salary package worth almost $870,000.

A Hamilton couple who kicked their children and hit them with a skipping rope or belt have been sentenced to home detention.

An expatriate Kiwi writer who has lived in half a dozen countries says New Zealand culture is uniquely hostile towards women. Katherine

At the Justice for Moko rally staged in Napier three months ago Napier City Councillor and former police detective Keith Price drew

Boys as young as 6 were told to "stop making up stories" when they complained about priest's sick abuse.

New Zealand judge Dame Lowell Goddard has slammed the British child abuse inquiry which she headed until last month, saying that it needs to be completely overhauled.

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The mother of murdered toddler Nia Glassie has been recalled to prison after concerns from authorities that she was "a risk to the community".

COMMENT: I hope we will do a better job of helping these people to stay offence free so we can keep children safe. But first we have to try to understand.