The School at the cen­tre of the storm around all male teach­ers on the North Shore being branded vic­ar­i­ously through the action of a judge grant­ing name sup­pres­sion for a kiddy-fiddling teacher want the man named so that they can inform parents.

There is sig­nif­i­cant New Zealand and over­seas research that says that by nam­ing the offender it is likely to bring more vic­tims for­ward enabling a slam dunk pros­e­cu­tion. For some­one to reach the age this offender is he will have form at pre­vi­ous schools. Unfor­tu­nately the way the Teach­ing fra­ter­nity oper­ates is that any­time some unsavoury details emerge they qui­etly resign and move with a glow­ing ref­er­ence tucked in the pocket from a relieved prin­ci­pal who doesn’t have to deal with it.

Luck­ily the Prin­ci­pal of the school in this case is not pre­pared to stay quiet and nei­ther is the BOT. Good on them. They should name him, they should post a let­ter to all stu­dent, not just for their peace of mind but for the 100’s of other par­ents who right now are con­tem­plat­ing whether to send their kids to school.

I have already fielded dozens of calls from wor­ried par­ents. Name this man, he will have com­mit­ted other offences, other vic­tims may come for­ward. Give the par­ents of the North Shore peace of mind.

The Gov­ern­ment must act. If they can change under urgency the defence of provo­ca­tion because of one case and adopt a pri­vate mem­bers bill about ani­mals (Well done Simon) then they sure as hell can move on this. The Pub­lic aren’t going to tol­er­ate much more of this and I would bet I can find a suit­able story every week from now till the elec­tion about inap­pro­pri­ate name suppression.

My sug­ges­tion to North Shore res­i­dents con­cerned about the safety of their child at school on Tues­day is call their local MP and lobby them to change the law so more vic­tims aren’t cre­ated. If Simon “Just-in” Bridges, a newby back­bencher, can get the ear of the PM about hor­ri­ble treat­ment of ani­mals to get an urgent law change then why can’t Simon “FIGJAM” Power do the same.

Right now it appears that the gov­ern­ment cares more about ani­mals and the rights of pae­dos than they do about poten­tial vic­tims of kiddy-fiddling teacher sickos.

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