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The law was supposed to stop this

by Whaleoil on November 29, 2011

Simon Power touted his name suppression changes as being able to stop people getting name suppression because they were famous:

A well-known former rugby player has pleaded guilty in the Auckland District Court to a charge of assaulting a child.

The sportsman, who was granted interim name suppression, admitted to an incident on September 27 in what police have called an act of excessive discipline.

He was granted name suppression because of his standing in sporting circles and in the community.

Well he should have thought about that when he bashed his kid shouldn’t he. Quite happy for the profile on the field but not happy for the profile for beating a child.

Some tough guy he is, afraid of his own name.

Simon Power won’t care he has retired and got his cushy job at Westpac.

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  • Gazzaw

    Was the new law in force on Sep 27?

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=586802903 Graeme Edgeler

      No. The Criminal Procedure Bill starts to take effect from early next year, in stages.

  • Mully

    Utter bullshit. Public interest surely in this case, since the reason wasn’t to protect the sprog.

    • http://www.whaleoil.co.nz Whaleoil

      Sue Bradfords law was supposed to protect the kid, nope. Name Suppression to protect the kid? Farcical argument, the one who is getting protected is the child basher.

      • Mully

        Well yeah, but I thought normally the scumbag’s application was to protect the identity of the kid he smacked around?

      • starboard

        welcome “to Nil Zilind”…land of fuckwittery.

      • Troy

        I’m happy to name and shame – i live outside of NZ (thousands of miles away) – if the fuckwit judges wanna chase me – catch me if you can! :)

    • Pharmachick

      Nice idea Troy … but if you do this on Whaleoils site, he might be liable. That’s not so cool :-(

      I recently advised DPF to move his client server to an offshore provider, then found out that wouldn’t (apparently) limit his liability either.

      As I’ve said before … what is one to do when the law is an ass????

      • Peter Wilson

        I’d like to see this law pushed around a bit. In a hypothetical case, what would happen if you said the offender was one of a group of say 150 identifiable people. That’s not naming the person is it.

  • starboard

    no no. Douchbag Bradfords law was gunna stop this sort of thing..remember?

  • Pharmachick

    What chance a repeal of this crazy law that a large majority of NZers hate? 

  • Chuck Bird

    Compare this with the mother who was refused name suppression for losing her cool when she seen the one of the group who bashed up her daughter. 

    • Rightoverlabour

      That mother needs a medal for doing what all parents are instinctively wired to do – protect their children. As one person e-mailed the radio, glad suppression was not granted, now we know who to go and congratulate!

      • Callum

        Sorry, but that mother is a retard. How stupid do you have to be to hit a 13-14 year old in front of the cops while they are being questioned? Seriously lacking in brain cells and common sense, the cops had no choice but to charge her and she WILL be convicted. All for what? A little bit of vengance that will do nothing to help her daughters situation.

    • Sadu

      Yep. Doing it in front of the cops is utterly stupid.

      • Rightoverlabour

        Yup, I was not aware of that part of the scenario. Bit silly of her. 

  • Johnboy

    Get real folks. This is New Zealand. We can’t have the law protecting children if it interferes with the natural violence of the staunch bro’s that represent brand All Black.

  • Apolonia

    How many votes did the popular Sue Bradford get on Saturday?

    • MikeMan

      More then she should of as the number was greater than zero!!!

  • Blaze

    Really who gives a fuck about it being Sue Bradfords law, National didn’t repeal it so they are just as culpable. I sometimes wonder how right wing National really is, and why so many supporters swallow socialist policies from them just to get a few conservative ones in. Its like selling your soul to the devil

  • Mort

    what do you expect from Manawatu Liarbore’s plant into the National team…. one more egregious example of protecting the paedobashers and destroying common decency in NZ.
    That scumbag should be held accountable for the assault on freedom of speech in the form of naming and shaming, as well as introducing Liarbore’s assault on the Electoral Financing and free speech regime in all but name.

    dirtbag… 

    He has confirmed for me that the only investing I’ll be doing with Westpac is to short sell the fucker

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  • diabolos

    People at the top of any tree in NZ can get away with anything IF they are part of the approved areas in the system.  Its all become an embedded part of what passes for “culture” in this country – or so it seems.

  • ExAllBlack

    Any clues yet? Zin Zan Brooke/John Kirwan/ Buck Shelford must be in their 50′s, so they are out.

  • ExAllBlack

    Robin Brooke is 45…

  • joe bloggs

    This isn’t the only name suppression rort in the past few weeks:

    Another former high-profile All Black appeared in a Wellington court last
    week and he, too, was given name suppression. In that case, the 45-year-old was charged with assaulting his partner while
    out celebrating the All Blacks World Cup victory over France, resisting police
    and possession of cannabis.

    Celebrate the RWC win with a bit of the biff for the missus? Resist arrest? Get caught with a bit of dak?

    What an inspiration to young New Zealanders, eh? No wonder NZ youth are going to Hell in a handbasket when outstanding sporting role models like these are able to get away with their crimes in complete anonymity.

  • Guest

    This is a prime example of SB’s law working.  Before the law change, this person wouldn’t have even been charged because he’d be in the right (the defence being “it was discipline”).
    So  glad to see that the smacking law is actually working.  Not like those soft rightwing nut jobs who like to see child bashers get off lightly.

    • Apolonia

      You’re dreaming, child abuse has always been illegal. If he used unreasonable force then he would have broken the law. The only change is that now it is illegal to use reasonable force to correct a child’s behaviour.

      • Blondini

         Dick head.  Prior to that law change fuckwits were getting let off with beating their kids with bits of 4 x 2.  If you have to hit a child then you are A) a useless parent and B) a fucking coward.