New Zealand Prime Minister Offers ‘Unreserved’ Apology to People Abused in Care

Published on November 12, 2024

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has given a “formal and unreserved” apology to thousands of people who were abused in state and church care homes over seven decades. An estimated 200,000 children and vulnerable adults suffered some form of abuse between 1950 and 2019. Luxon, who became prime minister in Oct. 2023 after the right-of-center National Party defeated Labour, said: “It was horrific. It was heartbreaking. It was wrong. And it should never have happened.” The formal apology, given in Parliament, followed the publication in July of a report by a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the abuse, which predominantly affected the indigenous Maori community....

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