Silly First Name Syndrome

I had a conversation with another blogger about the likelihood of another maori child being based to death by the end of January. We both reckoned iPredict wouldn’t even offer stocks on that, since it was a near certainty.

Unfortunately we were both proved right.

A five-month-old baby who died in an alleged manslaughter in Hastings last week has been named.

Mikara Ranui Jarius Reti, of Flaxmere, was admitted to Hawkes Bay Regional Hospital last Tuesday night and “subsequently died”, police said.

A 21-year-old man, who has name suppression, has been charged with manslaughter.

He is due to appear in the Hastings District Court tomorrow.

Senior Sergeant Dave de Lange said members of the Mikara’s family had been “co-operative and helpful” with a police investigation.

Three things strike me here. First is of course the occurrence once again of Silly First Name Syndrome. If these people took even as much care of the child as they do in giving them stupid names then we would be a whole lot better off and the children may well be alive.

The second thing is we have a 21 year male, not from the family by the looks of the press details. Judith Collins in her Summer Series interview likened this to being the same as Tom Cats going around killing the offspring of other fathers.

“Vio­lent offender who acts very much like a tom­cat and goes around basically killing the young of the pre­vi­ous partner”.

I have coined a new syndrome for this:

SOCKS – Some Other C*nts Kid Syndrome, an affliction that sees the SOCK victim brutally killed by another male involved with the family.

The third thing is that the alleged animal who beat this child to death has name suppression but yet again the victim does not. The law is ass-backwards and clearly criminal friendly.

Of course the liberal hand-wringers like Rosemary McLeod will say it is whitey’s fault and society’s fault, and haters and wreckers like Hone Harawira will just blame whitey, but at some point Maori are going to have to own their own sh*t, because with all the vast sums of money pouring into their laps they still seem overly represented in all the wrong statistics. At some point we as a nation have to say money isn’t working, time to turn the tap off.

Ask Rosemary McLeod, if she cares about Blanket Man so much would she shower. clothe and take him to Shed 5 for lunch? Thought not, so she should STFU. Caring is what “other people” do. The fact she got paid to write that drivel just galls me, if Steve Braunias has to go then it is high time she crawled back into what ever liberal elitist tent she came from and then the Sunday Star Times can have some columnists with a grasp on reality.

Brutal killings of children require brutal solutions and brutal honesty. Sue Bradford said that these children were going to be protected, in actual fact it looks more like they are being killed in increasing numbers since her law was brought in. She lied to the nation and criminalised good parents in the process.

The latest tragedy of the killing of small child by someone who was supposed to care for her has again highlighted the tragedy that is also Silly First name Syndrome.

Five-year-old Sahara Jayde Baker-Koro was found dead in her bed in Napier early on Tuesday.

A 24-year-old man has been charged with assault in relation to her death, and is likely to face more serious charges in the New Year.

He appeared in the Napier District Court this week, and was granted interim name suppression and remanded in custody until next month.

Sahara lived at the house with her mother, 7-year-old sister and 2-year-old brother.

Police have refused to reveal the 24-year-old’s relationship to the family, or say whether he was living at the house.

Has anyone wondered the irony of the situation where we know the name of the dead victim, but the coward accused of this crime is still afraid of his own name and has continued name suppression. The name suppression can’t be to protect the identity of the victim, she’s dead and her photo is splashed all over the paper. It is a pity that the accused’s photo isn’t splashed all over the internet and newspapers too.

I know it sounds cruel to look at their names but the evidence is over whelming. To my knowledge there hasn’t been a Brian or a Thomas or an Annie or a Catherine bashed to death by their care givers.

There has been a Sahara, Lillybing, Cru, Cris, Cezar, Duwayne, Kash, Hail-Sage,  Jayrhis, and Cher­ish­sil­iala. The other thing in common that no-one is allowed to say, but this blogger will, is that all of those kids were Maori.

Maybe the French are onto something in having a register of officially acceptable names. For the children above the child abuse really started the moment they were named, and continued until they were dead. Not many made it to 6 years old. In a way you could simply explain it all away by describing the slaughter of Maori young as simply late term abortions for playthings that became annoying and boring for the adults involved. The law draws the line at 23 weeks for abortion, it seems there is an element in society that draws the line at about 6 years old.

Society has an illness, and like an illness you need to treat it. But like an infected foot, you treat the foot not chop off an arm to help the foot and that is where it all goes wrong with society.Society does need to own this problem, but the part of society that so clearly and demonstrably has the problem has to own it more. If we don’t then the slaughter of Maori children will continue.

The truly sad thing is that the previous government, Sue Bradford and even John Key voted for a law that was supposed to “save the kiddies”. Instead of focusing on stopping smacking the government really should have banned Silly First Names, I bet the effects would have been a whole lot more tangible than the failure that is Sue Bradford’s law. There should be a Wall of Shame built in Sue Bradford’s dis-honour and every child bashed to death by “care-givers” should have their name inscribed upon it as a testimony to hand-wringing do-gooder meddling that failed.

Ignoring the merits, or in this case the demerits of the issue, the child featured in the photo has literally no hope. Afflicted with Silly First Name Syndrome, ill-will has already befallen it in the form of a state house eviction, nothing good will come in the future either.

CAN’T GIVE IN: Huia Tamaka, with baby Kingdezzy, 1, outside their home in Farmer Cres. “I’ve got nowhere else to go, so it’s to the bitter end for me,” Mrs Tamaka says.

None of this would have happened if she hadn’t afflicted her child with Silly First Name Syndrome.

UPDATE: It gets worse, in the dead tree version there were 5 kids in the photo. Kingdezzy (1), BaileyBaz (3), MightySilver (2), Toru (9), Layton (12)

Regular readers will know that I have run a campaign to draw attention to the awful life experiences that happen to people who suffer from Silly First Name Syndrome. Today a prime example of silly first name syndrome has been reported in the NZ Herald.

Wairarapa police are looking for 21 year-old Customline Ford, who has a warrant for his arrest, for breaching court-imposed bail conditions.

Detective Tracey Calder said Ford is facing charges including burglary, theft from a motor vehicle and receiving.

“We believe Ford is in the Wairarapa or Wellington areas and would like to speak to anyone who may know his whereabouts.”

Ford has gang connections and should not be approached.

No surprises here that Customline Ford has found his way to the notice of the constabulary. With a name like that I imagine there is a trail of destruction following him around. Its real Deliverance country down there in the Wairarapa for sure.

I’m still surprised the Greens haven’t yet called for a ban on Silly First names, they have wanted to ban almost everything else.

The Bay of Plenty Times had, what appeared to be a happy story, about a couple who have had their third set of twins.

Feeding six boys would be a challenge for many parents but for Papamoa mum Tressa Simonsen, it’s almost become a military operation.

Not that you would know it. As a mother to three sets of twins, the 31-year-old almost makes it look easy.

“I’m a bit of a whiz at it now,” she says.

“But I’m very lucky because the new babies are great and feeding and sleeping well.”

But there is an underlying tragedy in this story, one that is yet to materialise, but it will. Unhappiness is stalking this family.

Tressa was already mum to four boys – Sharaz and Shaqiel, 10, and Daklan and Darius, 2, when the latest pair arrived.

Kramer and Kelly, weighing 6 pounds 11 and 6 pounds 4 ounces respectively, were born 20 days early on September 5 at Tauranga Hospital.

But there is an interesting twist in this story.

All three sets of twins are fraternal, which means they are not identical and come from two separate eggs. Identical twins happen when an egg splits.

The chance of having three sets of twins is only 1 in 500,000.

Wow those are some odds. I wonder if the repeater bothered to ask two simple questions.

1. Did you have IVF?

2. Did the taxpayer pay for it?

Three sets of fraternal twins….smelling a rat here? I know she says she has never taken fertility drugs, but that isn’t a never had IVF either. Bet she goes again to get a girl too, which is what she was probably doing the second and third times.

Surely this is enough evidence to end the silly first name syndrome discussion.

A month ago, six African-American teenagers drowned in a single incident in Louisiana, prompting soul-searching about why so many young black Americans can’t swim.

When 15-year-old DeKendrix Warner accidentally stepped into deeper water while wading in the Red River in Shreveport, he panicked.

JaTavious Warner, 17, Takeitha Warner, 13, JaMarcus Warner, 14, Litrelle Stewart, 18, Latevin Stewart, 15, and LaDarius Stewart, 17, rushed to help him and each other.

None of them could swim. All six drowned. DeKendrix was rescued by a passer-by.

By going swimming with just one of them someone was going to get hurt, but all 6 going together was inviting serious trouble.

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, legislating to make people give their kids sensible first names may well be the first step in breaking the cycle of mayhem amongst the poor and mentally infirm.

Silly First Name Syndrome is a killer. We need to stamp it out.

This just in from a correspondent to the tipline.

Just had a visit from the Masterton Plunket nurse to check on our three-week-old.  The nurse told us she is horrified that just recently the registrar of births (or whowever is legally responsible for naming) allowed a local couple to name their son Al Qaeda.  She was sure it would be disallowed, as other less offensive names but absurd names had been, but no.  The parents even stated to Plunket and others that they wanted the kid to have a mean, tough name – so they can’t even claim it’s about some sort of mad religious statement!

Words fail me, it beggars belief.

There is a little girl who won’t be getting any presents this Christmas. Her life has been claimed by Silly First Name Syndrome. Like some of those afflicted it wasn’t her name that killed her, it was her Uncle’s.

Jasmine’s grandmother Margaret Henry told 3News she wanted the death to be a lesson to others that cars should always be parked in gear.

“It is a warning to be aware with these little ones. They are so precious.”

Jasmine’s uncle, Stone Luiataua told Radio Live people needed to always know what their children were doing.

“Be aware of your kids at all times, any kids are capable of doing anything,” he said.

Another sad death that could have been prevented by the removal of the person with Silly First Name Syndrome, it a killer.

The 2009 Chartered Accountant of the Year (really, there is one) goes by the name of Warwick Hunt.

Is that his real name? Or did the partnership at PWC make him change it by deed pool to better fit their image? His parents must have hated him!  Or they never tried to say his name quickly.

Considering he is in the same line of work as Michael Stiassny I’d say he is appropriately named.

Somebody needs to immediately alert these two women to the perils of Silly First Name Syndrome. In fact this whole family looks doomed. There are just too many occurences of SFNS for anything but tragedy to befall them.

It was sibling rivalry of a different sort at Nelson Hospital on Wednesday when two Nelson sisters gave birth to their daughters within hours of each other.

Recovering together yesterday in adjoining rooms, Dinah Roberts and Onycha Mailman couldn’t believe the coincidence. “It’s just too weird,” said Mrs Roberts, 33, of Ruby Bay.

“It was Dinah’s husband who said that it would be the same day in the same delivery room, holding hands, but it didn’t quite work out like that,” said 21-year-old Miss Mailman, who lives in Stoke.

It almost happened; Miss Mailman, who gave birth to Pheonix at 9am, was wheeled out of the delivery room as her sister was wheeled in to deliver baby Psalm.

Pheonix, already nicknamed Nixie for short, was Miss Mailman’s first child and weighed 3.72kg (8lb 3oz). Mrs Roberts’ baby Psalm was her fourth, and at 10 days overdue, weighed a more robust 5.42kg (11lb 15oz).

Mrs Roberts quickly dispelled any notion of the two sisters being able to draw comfort from each other in hospital.

“There is nothing comfortable about giving birth to an 11-pound baby,” she said.

Nelson Hospital midwife Sonya Kemp said she had never heard of two sisters giving birth on the same day before.

“Wednesday was busy for us anyway; we had seven births. It might have been because of the full moon,” she joked.

Mrs Roberts and Miss Mailman’s sister Kyria Warren said her mother, Jose Mailman, now had a brood of 13 grandchildren.

“In our family we have seven girls so poor Mum has been shattered running between daughters and now between rooms at Nelson Hospital,” she said.

She won’t be able to have much of a rest – another daughter, Salome, is due to give birth early next year.