Home-detention sentence for baby beating
‘…The Crown sought a prison sentence for the man, starting at three years.
However after giving him credit for remorse and the promise of employment, she sentenced him to home detention and ordered him to complete 160 hours of community work.
“It does seem to me with right environment you are able to behave in quite un-obstructive ways,” she told him.
“This is a long sentence for you, but it is a sentence that allows you to address the needs you do have.”….’
Child abuse is an enormous problem in New Zealand, among the highest in the world yet this…person… calling herself an effing judge…. aaah, what the hell and what’s the point. 
From the article:
‘New Zealand has the worst rates of child abuse and domestic violence in the developed world – every five-and-a-half weeks a child is killed by a family member and each year more than 90,000 are exposed to violence in their home.’
I’ll leave it to readers to play “spot the demographic”.
You may be surprised to learn that Denise Clarke hails from the Ngapuhi tribe.
Ref: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=220444
What was the iwi of the defendant, again?
Amazing. Simply amazing, eh?
From your link:
“”I am confident I can rise to the challenge … the community in Rotorua has given me the best apprenticeship I could have hoped for,” she said.
“It’s my hope to bring to the position an intimate insight into our people…an insight not from books or professors but from real life.”
Judge Clark acknowledged her appointment was another Maori voice in the partnership between Maori and the Crown that was enshrined by the Treaty of Waitangi.”
An “apprenticeship” in dealing with scumbags and lowlifes?
Oh, and by the way, there’s no “partnership” between Maori and the Crown enshrined in the Treaty. That’s a comparatively recent invention by scammers and liars.
Woodchipper
And yes,what an idiotic judge
It’s our feminised judiciary.
It’s our feminised judiciary.
Maybe so. But I fear other forces are at work here.
“Judicial history was made in Rotorua yesterday when lawyer Denise Clark was officially sworn in as a District Court judge on Tamatekapua Marae at Ohinemutu. ”
“Rangatahi Kirikiriroa, and Hamilton Youth Court Judge Denise Clark has seen first-hand the difference the court has made.”
“Her Honour Judge Denise Clark is another Mana Wahine that I want to acknowledge. ”
” Greg Reinhardt will present the award to all eight Judges who established and lead the 14 marae-based Rangatahi and two Pasifika Courts: National Rangatahi Court Liaison Judge Heemi Taumaunu, Judge Louis Bidois, Judge Denise Clark.”
“Ko Denise Clark ahau. The primary function of the Kaupapa Māori Advisory. Group (KMAG) is to provide information and guidance to the Chief Judge about kaupapa Māori issues in the District Courts. KMAG has been responsible for, or assisted with, the establishment of Rangatahi Courts, a Matariki.”
It seems to me that “kaupapa Māori issues” Play a rather disproportionate part in this Judge’s decisions.
This beating of a baby by a 20 year old man has left me cold.Usually you don’t see the graphic nature of the injuries inflicted. What could instil such rage into a man that he could do such a thing. In sentencing what could lead Judge Denise Clark to sentence this animal to anything but a long sentence of hard labour. This judge has been found wanting in her defence of a baby. She needs to explain herself and her actions.
“What could instil such rage……” – “P”. (Methamphetamine for the non New Zealanders). It causes a chemical imbalance in the brain resulting in massive mood swings, emotional instability and paranoia.
Hi Chris.
“This beating of a baby by a 20 year old man has left me cold.”
Please amend to ’20 year old male’. He’s no man.
“This judge has been found wanting in her defence of a baby.”
She’s been found wanting in her basic understanding of the precepts of justice and deterrence. “Community work” is little more than a weekend get-together with like-minded scumbags and a chance to socialise and get stoned. When he bothers to attend, that is.
It’s time to stop listening to academics and do-gooders and start making the penalties appropriate to the crime.The only penalty I can see that’s adequate for this waste of space is Darin’s solution, but of course we’re too civilized for that, aren’t we? But apparently not civilized enough to protect the helpless and the vulnerable in society.
So,apart from the general public (who have no input into the outcome), who judges the Judges?
The court of public opinion. The judges are our employees, and when a sentence is so manifestly out of touch with society’s values then obviously something is wrong.
The idea that judges should be above criticism dates back to the days when they were able, principled and actually interested in justice. (and deterrence).
That’s obviously very often no longer true.
Selected because of their ability, not race or gender.
“A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying,”
~Pope John Paul II
I’ve read the herald article and on that reading it seems an atrocious sentence. However the court may have received a report from a health professional relevant to the offender. Such reports are not always available to the public or the press. We must trust that the police will exercise their right to seek either a review of sentence or an appeal against the sentence because the way this has been reported could lead members of the public to minimise violence in our community .
I don’t give a fuck about a “report from a health professional” aka social worker. They’ve been so often wrong that their credibility is approaching zero.
And “trust the police”??? That’d be the same police who have repeatedly failed to act on reports of domestic violence, who have failed to act despite violations of protective orders, would it? The same police who mounted an illegal road block and violated innocent people’s rights and privacy for merely attending a meeting?
Pull the other one.
Comments about “trusting the professionals” are too often no more than a cowardly abrogation of the responsibility to speak up and demand integrity and justice.
Equally galling are the outright f–ups that CPS and the courts make on a regular basis that harm children and good parents.
We had one over here a few years ago,little boy born to a crack addict mother who signed him over for adoption.He was adopted by a barren couple who by all accounts were a fine loving couple.Three years after the adoption,the druggie mother comes back and decided she wants the boy back and the state along with CPS drag them into court.Of course the idiot judge in the case sided with the mother,but later on appeal custody was permanantly awarded to his adopted parents after the mother’s own parents wrote a letter to the court stating that their daughter was a liar and that she only wanted the boy back so she could collect ADC welfare.I would like to believe that letter made the difference in that case,but it was also rumored that the new judge recieved another letter that sent a chill through his soul if you catch my drift.
I think we do.
From the moment that child was conceived it was doomed. The poor kid inherited low genetic stock, probably had foetal alcohol syndrome, had feral parenting and , if this abuse hadn’t come to light as many cases don’t, she would have grown up just like the sub-human creatures who brought her into the world. For myself, I am sickened by violence towards innocents. Has this Judge ever heard a little kiddie scream in pain. I doubt it.
Exactly, Mara.
I just love the part where she says ““It does seem to me with right environment you are able to behave in quite un-obstructive ways”
So, mutilating a baby is merely being “obstructive”. Does she even understand the English language?
I would bet money this judge is perfectly okay with abortion and if truth be known probably is okay with postnatal “abortion” aka infanticide as well.There are several,well a lot actually of progs that believe in infanticide up until age 2.
Mara, you are so correct; drugs and alcohol, and unbelievably low IQ’s.
Sexist, ageist bitch!!! This piece of crap is a “minister” in a government that has no mandate and should be hounded out of parliament for her comment.
Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter says old white men should ‘move on’ from company boards
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102507145/minister-for-women-julie-anne-genter-says-old-white-men-should-move-on-from-company-boards
No mention of the fact that many of those old white male executives built the companies they now captain.And having done that why should they step aside for someone else to reap the reward?Oh,wait,I forgot “they didn’t build that”
I guess she means more like Lizzy Homes-
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/03/14/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-charged-massive-fraud/424670002/
Mawm beat me to it!
Bwaahaha. The wise “judge” has been shown up as to how useless she is. The baby-beating thug is back in gaol……for breaching his bail conditions. Also turns out that he’s Mongrel Mob – so you know his racial affiliation and also why there was such a lenient sentence. You can bet that the cops are pissed with her and took the first opportunity to re-arrest the thug.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12018198
Denise Clark , seriously I don’t think your mind is quite right. This mans needs to go to prison are you kidding me! This is outrageous and it will forever be remered in New Zealand for your wrong judgement. He will most likely do it again not to mention putting the baby aslt risk again by giving the criminal rights to do it again! Basically. Sickening… So sickening
Totally agreed. Sickening.😢😢
This woman is clearly unfit to practice law let alone be a judge she should be disbarred asap!! She should also be prosecuted for letting that mutt go free!!! Home detention is a fucking joke!!!
Agree – wtf is normal to her that she thinks he should get HD for doing that to a baby? Should be removed.
Amen to those comments.
It was great to see the cops have got him locked up for breach of his home detention, by visiting & celebrating at the pub. Lets hope they can keep him there while the judges decision is appealed & a more appropriate sentence is given .