At the time Wellington Rape Crisis were being forced to cut services, closing their doors on Fridays due to a $55,000.00 funding shortfall.
Wellington Rape Crisis experienced an increase in client numbers and were faced with a difficult funding environment.
A group of young men based in Auckland allegedly intoxicated underage girls to gang rape them.
The lack of police response to the issue and the line of questioning they took when interviewing the complainants sparked a large public outcry.
Then we have appalling coverage by media, including extreme victim-blaming and today we have heard the Police have indeed had complaints yet have only just started taking action now.In November 2015 New Zealand Prime Minister John Key accused the opposition party of “Backing rapists.”[9] In response to these claims several female MPs stood up and shared their own experiences of sexual violence and voiced their offence to the Prime Minister's comments.