A Lower Hutt woman making plans to prostitute her granddaughter swapped naked photos of the child for a phone top-up. The plans only came to light when the man she was arranging to prostitute the girl to was arrested for grooming a teenager. Both the grandmother and the man, Andrew Davie, have pleaded guilty to entering into a deal to sexually exploit…
1st June 2018
Illegal sex workers access million-dollar taxpayer-funded health programme ★ nzherald.co.nz
Illegal sex workers are accessing a million-dollar taxpayer funded sex programme, a Heraldinvestigation can reveal.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) funds $1,099,944 excluding GST annually to the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) for health programmes across the country for sex workers…
22nd May 2018
Partner of Auckland mum who kept teen daughter as a sex slave sentenced ★ nzherald.co.nz
The partner of the “most despised woman in New Zealand” has been jailed for helping keep a teenage girl as a sex slave – selling her to men around Auckland about 1000 times.
Avneensh Sehgal, 26, appeared…
This article explores the activities of The New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective (NZPC) in promoting decriminalization of prostitution and its role in gatekeeping this legislation. The NZPC has loomed large in
the government’s evaluations…
New Zealand’s largest circulating newspaper, The New Zealand Herald, has come under fire for its role in facilitating child sex crimes against an Auckland girl, and its refusal to discuss its sex trade advertisements with an advocacy group working to combat child sexual exploitation.
At today’s sentencing of Avneesh Sehgal…
9th May 2018
Exclusive: Sex slave victim granted residency, will stay in New Zealand ★ nzherald.co.nz
A teenage girl sold up to five times a day for sex with random men by her own mother will stay in New Zealand and has been granted residency.
She can now live, work and study in New Zealand and will not live in constant fear of deportation.
Last month Kasmeer…
9th May 2018
Exclusive: Nude photos of child sex victim banned, deemed ‘objectionable’ ★ nzherald.co.nz
A child sex victim has won her fight to get nude images of her – taken by her mother when she was a young girl being subjected to abuse – banned and classified as objectionable.
In April last year…
This article explores the activities of The New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective (NZPC) in promoting decriminalization of prostitution and its role in gatekeeping this legislation. The NZPC has loomed large in the government’s evaluations of the decriminalization legislation known as the Prostitution Reform Act (PRA). It has collected information…
Renowned feminist scholar and activist Janice Raymond, author of Not a Choice, Not a Job and Women as Wombs among other seminal texts – has challenged the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective (NZPC) in an article published in Dignity journal last month. The article, called Gatekeeping decriminalization of prostitution: The ubiquitous influence of the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective, is a rare critical take in today’s academic context, where discussions of the…
6th May 2018
Immigration New Zealand pulls sex worker from skilled employment list checker ★ nzherald.co.nz
Immigration New Zealand has removed sex workers or escorts from its skilled employment list checker online.
The agency’s area manager Stephanie Greathead said the removal of the listing from its list was to “avoid further confusion” that people could get a visa as skilled prostitutes…