New Zealand continues to follow Sweden

From Family First NZ Media Release:

https://familyintegrity.org.nz/2008/eight-smacking-prosecutions-in-six-month-period/

“According to the Police Executive Meeting 6 Month Review papers, there have been no prosecutions for ‘smacking’, but the paper (Official police papers) says that “eight ‘minor acts of physical discipline’ events against children were prosecuted with six yet to be resolved.”

This is what Ruby Harrold-Claesson informed us back in March 2007 about Sweden

https://familyintegrity.org.nz/2007/emails-from-ruby-harrold-claesson/

March 2007

[4] – “There has been no increase in the number of parents drawn into the Swedish criminal justice system for minor assaults in the past 25 years.”

Rebuttal: Before 1978 no parent would have been drawn before the police and prosecutor like the priest who had slapped his 16-yr old daughter. (See Case 1 in my Case Law). Deborah Coddington quoted Prof. Christian Diesen in her article “Anti-smack campaign fails to pack a punch”, (http://subs.nzherald.co.nz/author/story.cfm?a_id=271&ObjectID=10393619). Diesen said that there are “7000 reports of child abuse per year in Sweden, but only 10 % are prosecuted.” These are statistics from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.
Diesen says “only 10% are prosecuted.” He wants to see more prosecutions – even if the parents should be found not guilty.

Recent statistics show that there are 11 000 reports of child abuse per year in Sweden and that there has been a 14% increase between 2005 – 2006. See http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0702/S00378.htm