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Posted: 21 October 2008 at 3:46pm |
I am starting to think the media is obsessed with child abuse cases. I am getting really upset at the coverage of the Nia Glassie trial. I just dont want to hear all the details and it seems to be everywhere I turn.
Is it just me?
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Posted: 21 October 2008 at 4:01pm |
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I was reading the article in the herald this morning about the Nia case, and felt sad all over again. What those "men" did to her is just sickening.
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Posted: 21 October 2008 at 4:24pm |
today was the first i had heard of it. i find the details disturbing and wonder how necessary they really are.
what i find even more sickening tho is the people who stood by and did nothing! 
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Posted: 21 October 2008 at 6:33pm |
They should all get life and stay in jail until they die.
I can't understand HOW this could happen....
I cringe everytime it comes on the news.
I work in early childhood and my passion is working with young children i have worked with many 3 year olds and can't understand HOW THIS COULD HAPPEN...
What about the mother???? 
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Posted: 21 October 2008 at 6:47pm |
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I've been avoiding the coverage, I know they are in court and the only other thing I want to know is when they get sentenced and hopefully it is for a long long long time. Personally I would prefer they were hung but that sadly isn't an option. Hopefully someone will top them once they are in prison.
I'm not sure why they are giving all the details on the news, its just doesn't seem necessary to me and I find it a bit disrespectful to Nia (i find a lot of what is on the news to be disrespectful when it comes to people that have died/been murdered). I really hope the poor jury get counselling afterwards, I think they will need it, I certainly would if I ever had to be a juror on a case like that.
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Posted: 21 October 2008 at 7:34pm |
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I guess the idea is by getting the details out there, people will be disgusted and more likely to act, in future.
If this kind of coverage doesn't stop child abuse what will?
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Posted: 21 October 2008 at 7:59pm |
I get upset everytime it is on the news. Even tonight with the TV1 news they said there was graphic coverage so view discression I had to turn it over as I didn't want to watch it let alone let Andrew watch it.
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Posted: 21 October 2008 at 10:20pm |
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I totally think it is way over bored I rushed to turn the tv off before it started. I don't think we all need the detail's over and over again i think by now you would have to have been living under a rock not to know the detail's.
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Posted: 21 October 2008 at 10:57pm |
I had to walk out. It made me cry and Willie told me to get out coz it was upsetting me too much. And I am pretty hardened when it comes to that sort of stuff.
What gets me the most, more than all the horrid (and IMO unnecessary) public recounts of what those animals did to her, is the picture all the news organisations are bandying around of her in the yellow hat with this huge smile. She looks so happy and sweet and innocent and I can't help but think of my own kids when I see it, and think about how lonely and sad she must have felt in her last few weeks of life.
I'm leaving this thread now coz I'm getting upset again 
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Posted: 22 October 2008 at 9:14am |
doesnt get to me but i guess people need to be aware or something?
Its so so sad. When i look at any young kid i just have to wonder how anyone can hurt them. They are so helpless really, and what sort of sick #$@$ing #$@^%&&$*&*$!@#$@#$ person could actually hurt them? 
If someone did anything like that to my child id quite gladly go to jail for killing the bastard...
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Posted: 22 October 2008 at 9:17am |
Sorry Emma, I didnt mean to upset you I just wondered if I was irrational....I have never reacted so strongly but I burst into tears whenever its on the news and I get all panicky to turn it off or change channels....I can usually handle stuff like that but not pregnant and not looking at TOm and how much effort I go to to keep him safe....I am upset that he has bruises on his wee legs from insisting on crawling over shist rocks! (bloody boys )
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Posted: 22 October 2008 at 9:28am |
I guess like Fleury mentioned, the hope is that the more people know about these barbaric acts against children, the more likely they are to speak out and actually do something. It makes me sick to my stomach to think that there were people around this little girl who stood by and let this happen to her. My personal belief is that they should be charged and sent to prison also. I just dont understand why anyone would think its okay to torture a child like this. These people are dogs - and when dogs go bad and attack people we put them down.
Just my two cents worth. Like Emma - this makes me so angry and upset that I prob shoudlnt post anymore.
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Posted: 22 October 2008 at 9:34am |
OMG - sorry I just have to add....ANYONE ANYONE at all, friends, family, neighbours....who SAW that little girl struggling to breath and having fits at a birthday party, or being spun on a washing line, or any of the other horrific things that they did to her.....need to be called to account. How anyone can stand by and watch that happening to a child is beyond me. It makes them all monsters in my mind.
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Posted: 24 October 2008 at 10:21am |
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Posted: 24 October 2008 at 2:03pm |
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I get upset listening to the coverage, but I do think its necessary, how can anyone think its ok to treat a child in that manner. This is a matter for public concern and it seems the media have become the forum for debating it.
I think its awful too, and hope they all get plenty of jail time.
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Posted: 24 October 2008 at 2:35pm |
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I just really hope that they dont get isolated in prison. I think it is only fair that the other inmates "deal to them" as they see fit.
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Posted: 24 October 2008 at 2:45pm |
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Posted: 24 October 2008 at 5:24pm |
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I have been avoiding any coverage of it , I already know the main details,and they are bad enough .
The thing that upsets me the most about these cases, apart from the fact they are being hurt by people they are meant to be able to trust, is the image of their eyes,and how frightened they would be .
...Fear has no place in a child's eyes, and it should never ever be placed there by the very people who are meant to love and provide for the child.
May she rest in peace, and may they get all they deserve .
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Posted: 24 October 2008 at 5:36pm |
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i got called up for JURY service for that case! fortunatly i knew 2 of the lawyers on the case so i got out of doing it.
1 of them a female lawyer is really affected by it and has even written up her notice to hand in to the firm once the case is finished.
i hope they all get really big sentances. especially the mother, what kind of mother leaves their child with people like that!
when it first happened last year the entire street of the court was a angry mob of protesters.
NZPIPER:
2 of the guys and the young chick got beaten up really bad in the holding cells under the courts by some gang guys, the policec just stood back and watched - good on them!
and yes they have been in isolation for that last year.
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Is the media coverage getting to you?
the horrible things they did to her!! WHY OH WHY would you do that to a 3 year old...I mean how is it "fun" to torture a child that size? what the hell is wrong with those F%@&% A&%$@&?? And this was from another child in the house...who surely wouldnt be making these stories up!
