SEX addicts are actually more likely to avoid sex in a relationship, new research from Massey University has found. The findings also show people with appetites for online sex, prostitution, sex that puts you at risk of harm, degrading sex, or public indecency tend to have commitment issues. [Read more…]
NZ’s image tarnished by outcome survey on corruption
New Zealand may not be the corruption free zone that the world perceives, with a new survey claiming 3.6 per cent of people admit to paying a bribe in the past 12 months.
Commissioned by anti-corruption organisation Transparency International, the survey found 3.6 per cent of New Zealanders said that either they, or someone in their household, had paid a bribe in that time….. Transparency International pointed to recent high profile arrests by the Serious Fraud Office as a sign of increased corruption. NZ’s image tarnished by briberty survey.
NZ’s image tarnished by bribery survey, By Hamish Rutherford. The Dominion Post. December 10. 2010, p. A5. [Read more…]
Brothel madam’s sentence “appallingly light” says mother of victim of criminal exploitation
A Christchurch mother is disgusted a brothel madam who illegally employed her 16-year-old daughter as a stripper in a graphic sex act has received an “appallingly light” sentence.
Anna Anastazja Horlor, 59, who operated four Christchurch brothels employing 80 workers, was sentenced yesterday in the Christchurch District Court to six months home detention and 200 hours community work on two charges of receiving income from underage sex workers.
See full story by MARTIN VAN BEYNEN – The Press http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4447807/Brothel-madams-sentence-appalling [Read more…]
Bankrupting May Wang “in the interests of justice” – Assoc. Judge Hannah Sargisson
Associate Judge Hannah Sargisson is reported as saying yesterday, that making prominent businesswoman May Wang bankrupt, while not an easy decision, was correct “in the interests of justice“. But many may be asking: ‘what exactly does this (quoted) phrase mean and how does it relate to the broader concepts of “truth”, “moral absolutes”, “ethical standards”, “public interest” and “community standards” – given that “justice” is generally perceived to be connected to one of more of these ideas?
To answer this question one must bear in mind that the associate judge said that Ms Wang had not been forthright to creditors or the court and the disclosure of her interests in the UBNZ group, the vehicle through which Hong-Kong listed Natural Dairy had planned to buy the Crafar farms “has been entirely inadequate“. [Emphasis added] [Read more…]
May Wang Declared Bankrupt – SFO Probes Crafar Farm Purchases
Failed property developer May Wang – the woman fronting the bid to buy the Crafar farms from receivers – has been made bankrupt by the High Court at Auckland. [Read more…]