NZ’s Maori violence problem:

Just two examples…
‘A Cambridge man who severely injured his baby daughter by shaking her has avoided prison.
The sentence has angered child advocates who say the country should be ashamed of its record of child abuse.
Jacob Patrick Tatana, 21, was yesterday sentenced to three months’ home detention and 150 hours’ community work when he appeared in the Hamilton District Court.
He earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of injuring by unlawful act related to shaking his three-month-old daughter Kayla Anne Tatana.
Judge Glen Marshall originally considered a sentence of seven months in jail – the maximum penalty is three years – but reduced it due to mitigating factors.
……..Tatana – exhausted after a weekend of smoking cannabis and drinking – was looking after Kayla while his partner, Gina Hodges, was at work.’
and:
”A Wanganui man, who kicked a two-year-old boy to death, has been found guilty of the toddler’s murder.
It took a jury of three men and nine women three hours to find Rikki Ngatai-Check, 23, guilty of murder rather than manslaughter in the High Court at Wanganui today.
……Rikki Ngatai-Check is not a blood relative of Karl Perigo-Check. He was described in court as a cousin of the boy’s father Karl Check – who is serving at last 15 years in jail for the 2007 murder of Jhia Te Tua, 2, during an altercation between the Mongrel Mob and Black Power gangs in Wanganui.’