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: Dame Lowell Goddard has badly let the team down. Her failure has been splashed through the British papers. It's not a good look.

Documents were leaked detailing examples of harrowing abuse, sexual assault, child abuse and self-harm attempts in a Nauru's detention centre.

Kimberly Martines was desperate to lure her husband back into her life, so police say she hatched a plan to get his attention.

A group which lobbies for child abuse survivors has welcomed the departure of a NZ judge as head of a major British inquiry into institutional abuse.

Maori tribal leaders will today sign a "covenant" with the nation's children, promising to respect them and make childhood a time of "joy and light".

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The NZ judge heading the UK's historical child abuse inquiry has shocked barristers by admitting that she is confused by English law.

Dame Lowell Goddard, could receive more than £5m in pay and perks amid fears hearings will drag on for a decade.

Shocking new details of the Butler's case can be reported for the first time today after a gagging order was lifted to the allow the reporting of a 2014 family court judgement.

Moko Sayviah Rangitoheriri, 3, died in August last year of horrific injuries inflicted by his carers.

Chris Finlayson waited until after the sentencing of Tania Shailer and David Haerewa to comment on the case since the pair pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

The family of a child sex victim were already angry they had to wait more than eight months for the offender to be sentenced.

Mother of 3-year-old killed by caregivers breaks down in court as pair are jailed for highest manslaughter sentence handed out in New Zealand.

Rallies across the country for toddler who was beaten, tortured and killed, as Tania Shailer and David Haerewa jailed for 17 years each.

The man and woman who pleaded guilty to killing Taupo 3-year-old Moko Sayviah Rangitoheriri have been sentenced to 17 years each at the High Court in Rotorua.

The killers of Moko Rangitoheriri are sentenced in the Rotorua District Court today. A New Zealander and 3 Australians who were among seven men kidnapped at gunpoint in southern Nigeria last week have been released.

Dr Patrick Kelly feels honoured to be recognised but warns that NZ's rate of child abuse is getting worse as key solutions have not been implemented.

COMMENT: Without any explanation, a decision was made to withdraw a murder charge that shocked and appalled many.The public has not yet been told why.

COMMENT: So where was Moko's dad? We have no idea. We have no idea because the question was never asked. It never is.

COMMENT: The torturing and killing of poor little Moko has saddened and angered New Zealanders to a degree that I lack the words to explain.