Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 12, 2018 17:28:47 GMT 12
BABY GRABBING A COLONIAL ABUSE
The growing numbers of wāhine Māori in prisons is likely to be one of the main topics for discussion at a Māori criminal justice summit in November.
It will also challenge a system that continues to affect Maori from birth, such as the way Oranga Tamariki preemptively take babies because they consider the mothers to be a risk.
"Mums are imprisoned while they are pregnant. Some give birth in prison and keep their babies until a certain age when they are taken away from them because they are 'bad mums' in prison, and I think that is a gross abuse of colonising power," Mr Jackson says.......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjAwODc/National%20News/Baby-grabbing-a-colonial-abuse
The growing numbers of wāhine Māori in prisons is likely to be one of the main topics for discussion at a Māori criminal justice summit in November.
It will also challenge a system that continues to affect Maori from birth, such as the way Oranga Tamariki preemptively take babies because they consider the mothers to be a risk.
"Mums are imprisoned while they are pregnant. Some give birth in prison and keep their babies until a certain age when they are taken away from them because they are 'bad mums' in prison, and I think that is a gross abuse of colonising power," Mr Jackson says.......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjAwODc/National%20News/Baby-grabbing-a-colonial-abuse