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My name is Grant West I am a survivor of child sexual abuse in New Zealand. My abuse was by many different people in government-run institutions.
I am now travelling New Zealand collecting signatures on a petition calling for a Royal Commission Inquiry into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. I started in Dunedin and have travelled the South Island. I will be in Wellington on the 14th August 2016 to start to collect signatures on the petition from the 15th 16th 17th and 18th in the Cuba Mall.
I will be traveling the North Island to Lake Taupo and Rotorua from the 20th until the 23rd and then on to Hamilton from the 23rd until the 26th. From there I will be heading for Auckland, staying there until the 14th of September when I will fly back to Wellington too hand over the petition to three MPs on the steps of Parliament on the 15th of September at 1:15 pm.
I am asking for changes to the Australian and New Zealand Royal Commission. As I am funding this out of my own money. I need help to be able to pay for things like the car hire and accommodation and petrol. So please if you can help me out and give a little bit that would help. New Zealanders: ANZ 06-0909-0439736-00 And Australians: Westpac BSB 033-607 ACC 000796 Even If anyone concerned out there gave a dollar or two, It would add up and help the cause.
With everyone signing the petition your signature is taking back the power from the government of New Zealand and putting it back in the hands of the people. Thank you for your support. My Facebook webpage is Silence No More NZ please go there and have a look.
I am here to stop the sexual abuse of New Zealand children and to give all victims and survivors, including and those that are no longer with us, a voice.
The following is from an interview Grant West recently gave to the Australian newspaper The Courier.
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When Grant West was eight he was placed in juvenile detention after he was caught by police attempting to burn down a Presbyterian Church.
It would be the first of many desperate attempts Mr West would make to end a cycle of horrific sexual abuse inflicted on him from the age of four.
Mr West told The Courier he was the victim of intrafamilial sexual abuse before he was raped by a church minister at the age of six.
He become a ward of the state until the age eight and were abused up until the age 16.
He spoke of systematic beatings, sadistic sexual abuse and culture of fear at the boys home which was run by the former Department of Social Welfare from the 1960s through to the 1980s.
“I was shoved into a cell and beaten to a pulp,” Mr West said.
“The first night I was made to stand naked in the shower while they turned a high pressure fire hose on me. It wasn’t long after that the night-watchmen started sexually abusing me.”
Mr West, has lived in Ballarat for more than a decade.
He suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and has made multiple attempts to end his life.
While one of his perpetrators is in jail in New Zealand, others have died without ever being prosecuted.
Mr West has made it his mission to protect future generations of children and get justice for scores of child sexual abuse victims in New Zealand.
He is calling for the New Zealand federal government to roll-out an independent royal commission mirroring Australia’s child sex abuse inquiry.
He plans on travelling around New Zealand to get more than 200,000 signatures for petition which will be lodged in parliament.
He has returned to New Zealand because he wants to see changes to the system in his home country.
“We are asking for all institutions who care for children to have mandatory reporting of sexual abuse cases,” he said. “This is about changing the way we deal with children.”
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Grant West, right and supporter Pete Chapman are collecting signatures calling for a Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/83075972/kiwi-expat-calling-for-royal-commission-inquiry-into-child-sex-abuse
