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Rapist ignored victim’s pleas to spare her and her unborn baby

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A Wellington woman tried to explain to a brutal rapist that she could be pregnant with her first child and begged him not to hurt her.

It did not matter to Bailey Meredith, 17, who violated her over and over during an attack on the Hutt River riverbank on June 11 before beating her unconscious.

She had been out walking when he had grabbed her from behind, ordering her to her knees before saying he intended to rape her….

The judge jailed Meredith for eight years but did not impose a minimum non-parole period.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/72183813/rapist-ignored-victims-pleas-to-spare-her-and-her-unborn-baby

Porn ‘education’ fuels filming of rape of drunk girls by teenage boys

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The actions of the Roast Busters, a group of teenagers who film their sexual exploits with drunk girls and post the footage online are “absolutely rape”, [Dr Kim McGregor], the director of Rape Prevention Education says. [Read more…]

Steve Crow – NZ pornographer claims porn is not harming society – “It’s a fantasy, that’s all it is”.

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Dr Michael Flood, a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Wollongong, is challenging the porn industry to move away from what he says are increasingly aggressive depictions of sex. He said porn was shaping social attitudes among young men, encouraging them to view women as sexual objects.

New Zealand pornographer Steve Crow said he agreed that pornography was becoming more extreme.

“But the market is demanding more and more extreme stuff. You can put the softer stuff out there, but people don’t buy it.”

Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow, a banned company director, argues that pornography was not harming society. “It’s a fantasy, that’s all it is.” [Read more…]

Mother backs Bill Hastings paying her 14-year old son to watch rape

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Mother backs TV Research Dominion Post 6/11/08 by Greer McDonald

The mother of a 14-year old who viewed footage of rape and domestic violence for research has defended the study and says children see worse on news broadcasts.

Dawn Bunker, of Wanganui, said she gave consent for her son to take part in the research and believed he didn’t see anything that wasn’t age-appropriate”.

“I feel it was well worthwhile and done professionally, and at no time felt he could not cope with what he was shown. As he himself put it – ‘You see worse on the TV news, Mum.'”

Mrs Bunker was offended by comments from Bob McCoskrie, of lobby group Family First, who said this week that the fact that parents had consented to their children taking part “says something about the parents”.

Mrs Bunker, a mother of three, said parents had to be censors in their own homes. “Some of the things you see on the news, I’ve kicked my kids out of the room – I’m censoring my children myself, I know what they can handle.”

She said chief censor Bill Hastings was doing a good job.

However, a community lobby group has called for he resignations of Mr Hastings and Dominic Sheehan, chief executive of the Broadcasting Standards Authority, for whose agencies the research was conducted.

John Mills, president of the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards, said Mr Hastings showed appalling judgment. “the society is outraged Mr Hastings has defended his breaking of the law by claiming that, because the younger participants gained parental permission before they they took part in the research, then that was okay.”