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24 killed since Malachi – Review exposes ongoing failure to protect NZ’s most vulnerable children

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A new review by the Independent Children’s Monitor has found New Zealand’s child protection system has made little meaningful progress since the 2021 murder of Malachi Subecz, with systemic gaps identified in 2022 still largely unresolved despite government acceptance of recommendations.

A 2025 report by the late Dame Karen Poutais said many reports of concern about children still do not lead to action from Oranga Tamariki, leaving vulnerable tamariki effectively unseen, while information sharing between agencies remains weak and risk assessments too narrow.

A review of Poutasi’s report released today said that since Malachi’s death, 24 more children have been killed by caregivers, with several known to authorities beforehand, highlighting ongoing failures across police, welfare, and support systems.



Oversight bodies, including the Children’s Commissioner and Ombudsman, are urging faster, coordinated action across agencies, warning that without real change at community level, children remain no safer than they were when Malachi died.

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  1. Does everyone remember how Sue Bradford and Helen Clark demagogued Section 59 of the Crimes Act? Remember how throwing parents in jail for spanking their children was supposed to eliminate child abuse?

    I remember!

    So, what has happened? Child abuse has skyrocketed ever since Section 59 was repealed.

    Nobody actually cares about children, anywhere in the Western world. Children are simply political footballs to be kicked around in pursuit of dishonest ideological agendas.

    Societies that behave this way go extinct.

  2. This is because the NZ Family Court system is a SH*T SHOW,
    alienating children and terrorizing especially fathers with a mafia made up of police, women’s refuge wrecks, bias ‘lawyers-for-child’, man-hating judges, a totally hateful sexist bias at the courts, perverted child support clubs, and deep apathy of the general public of how that mafia destroys families. Every third child grows up fatherless !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Here is a truly HORRIFIC statistic that above descibed scum would rather swipe under the carpet, but they HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS:
    https://assets.menz.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/OIA-response-for-A-Kern.pdf
    Where are the governing bodies? The cries of children and fathers go unheard!
    Read and weep: https://menz.org.nz/

    https://www.tiktok.com/@reealvybes/video/7514357675862281502?embed_source=121374463%2C121468991%2C121439635%2C121749182%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121497414%2C121477481%2C121351166%2C121811500%2C121960941%2C121860360%2C121487028%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%2C121885509%3Bnull%3Bembed_card_play&refer=embed&referer_url=menz.org.nz%2F&referer_video_id=7512550046408199455

  3. What a depressing little country this is.
    Clean green New Zealand – a great place to raise children. What a joke.
    People here have always been cruel to children. No matter what safeguards or how many commissions they have, it will never be any better.
    I hate living here. How I wish my old folk had stayed in Scotland.

  4. What do you expect when people are having kids purely as a form of income,
    Govt will give me $1200 a week if I ditch the Father.. winz kids

    • Winz paying for children what a laugh they pay Jack. Perahps the leaving parent should pay under the law for their kids, as they are suppsed to PROVIDE food and shelter. They get away with debt to IRD and NOTHING goes to the child .
      You go live in a benefit before you join the National party, NZ tall poppy bollarks. People don’t say hey I will have kids to go on 270 a week you’ve got to be bloody joking!
      Try living in South Africa, where people kill for food. Wankery of NZ. How about you have a go at actual child abuse, it doesn’t have a benefit attached to it you moron. Fifthly rich people abuse and kill kids, it’s just not public to protect them hello!! I saw thousands of cases of this at law school and people like you haven’t got an IQ over 75. Enough of blaming the benefit, if they didn’t not have it you would be living behind barred houses. Give NZ some credit. I am happy to pay for people if it means I don’t have to live behind barred windows with guard dogs and guns to protect my safety. Go overseas.

      • Also note the misogyny and domestic abuse, higher in this country than any other first world country for no reason any of the ‘experts’ can pinpoint. It’s not new. NZ women and children have always been at risk from men brought up in this ‘man alone’, huntin’, shootin’, fishin’, rugby warrior ridden, and alcohol sodden society where the haka death dance is our national anthem.

        • Every third child in NZ grows up without a father.
          Let that sink in.
          Why is that?
          I make a bet the majority of what you complain about is done by boys growing up fatherless.
          And who brings them up? Mothers!
          You need to learn to reason.
          And therapy.

  5. But yet CYFS go after good parents, especially immigrant parents, and always try to remove a child from a good home based on lies, heresy, or in order to get a bonus.
    Child trafficking is still a concern in NZ, especially after the Epstein Files have come to light revealing those internationally who have engaged in crimes against children…!
    We has a SLT suddenly show-up at our home (not a normal thing for the MoE to do) and was taking down false notes, and making attempts to have our special needs child removed from us.
    We obtained the entire file under the OIA and discovered there was a conspiracy between the MoE & MoH (a major health care provider on South Island) which we suspect were disgruntled managers trying to cause problems.
    Based upon the Epsteinm Files, if you are an immigrant parent with a special needs child, be VERY alert and DO NOT COMPLY in signing any documents with governmental agencies!
    https://100percentfedup.com/warning-graphic-we-just-discovered-what-beef-jerky/
    https://www.thewisewolf.club/p/epstein-was-a-cannibal-eating-children-witchcraft
    https://www.thewisewolf.club/p/epstein-baal-child-sacrifice
    https://rumble.com/v75gul2-video-title.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v3_sa_o%2Csrc_v1_upp_a
    https://www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-exclusive-mk-ultra-victim-human-trafficking-survivor-responds-to-bombshell-epstein-revelations-confirming-elite-satanism-cannibalism-mass-murder
    https://www.thewisewolf.club/p/is-jeffrey-epstein-alive-in-israel
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qIvERo-V88
    Paedophile pathways track to all nations-especially in remote and secretive places where people are easily compromised.

  6. In 2 generations we have forgotten how to treat our youngest and most vulnerable children. This is like the Jews in the wilderness – we see the worship of Baal however it is much deeper than that. They sacrificed children like we are (called abortion – however it is for convenience or better lifestyle)
    We are going rapidly to the judgement seat of Jesus and will be rewarded for our actions – some to everlasting life, and some to the lake of fire.

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