The country's top cop has conceded police could have gone public about the Roast Busters scandal earlier.

Judith Collins has never been a big fan of short skirts. With our robust Kiwi figures, they're best left to super models.

The Roast Busters are delusional losers, starring in their own fantasy of a rock-star life. If their actions hadn't been so harmful and damaging to young women, they would be laughable.

Matthew Hooton is so far right he sneeringly derides the National Government as communists, says Matt McCarten.

The victim of a brutal pack rape which has gone unpunished for more than two decades says the "Roast Busters" case has brought back awful memories of her ordeal.

Police have been asked to investigate a website that claims to be exposing dozens of men who it says sought sex with a 14-year-old girl.

"Roast Buster" Joseph Parker has skipped town after threats and abuse were shouted at his family home.

Yet again, the message from the NZ Police to New Zealand women is that the police will not protect women by enforcing sexual assault laws, writes Catriona MacLennan.

One of the boys at the centre of the Roast Busters underage sex controversy left school soon after allegations were made about an incident involving a young female student.

Any Facebook posts, videos, photos and text messages deleted by the Roast Busters group would not stay hidden from the prying eyes of police for long, a private investigator says.

The response was swift and pretty much universal: this was appalling, stomach churning, almost certainly criminal, writes Toby Manhire.

The Police Minister says she would be "extremely disappointed'' if police had not followed strict protocols when questioning a young complainant in the Roast Busters case.

'I haven't done anything." A sandwich company owner has been inundated with abuse over the Roast Busters sex scandal - so he's changing the name.

Another RadioLive host has come under fire, this time for an interview with a caller who said she was raped as a 14-year-old.

Hamilton residents are being advised to check their home security following a series of intruder incidents in the east of the city on Sunday.

One of the founders of a group calling themselves the Roast Busters has apparently apologised online for his involvement in the group.

I was incensed this week when I read the story of Jacqui Scott, as indeed were most people when they read of her ordeal.

The former principal of a Northland Christian school has appeared in court on sex abuse charges involving two young boys more than 40 years ago.

Three teenagers alleged to have been involved in the rape and sexual assault of a young woman are associated with one of New Zealand' most distinguished boys' schools.

A woman has taken the bold and unusual step of applying for her name to be made public to expose her adult son who was convicted of rape and incest against her.

A number of suspects have been eliminated from inquiries, as Christchurch police investigate the brutal rape of a young Sockburn mother.

A teenager charged with the rape and abduction of an 11-year-old girl has appeared in court this morning.

'Why didn't I cry out for help? Fear.' Ten years on and in a new book Elizabeth Smart details her ordeal after she was snatched from her bedroom by a crazed preacher.

Police hunting the fluoro-vested intruder who raped a young mother in her Sockburn flat last week are speaking to ex prison inmates and known sex offenders.