Enabled Child Rapist Bert Potter Dies Ages 86 – VILE DAUGHTER IN LAW CHANGED ACC LAWS FOR THE WORSE.
Vile man. Just a loathsome view. Children are, naturally sexual. But they should be allowed to explore that with children and their own and with them controlling the situation and deciding how things happen. Not some vile man deciding what happens. And the parents , in some cases, totally enabled his actions. Awful time In new Zealand. I know some of the children and they have processed the events at Centerpoint well. Some, not so healthily. His legacy is sadness.
Bert Potter the controversial founder of the Centrepoint commune in Albany, Auckland, has died. He was 86.
Centrepoint was a spiritual community that numbered in the hundreds with people seeking the common goal of liberating themselves physically, emotionally and sexually.
After a police raid in 1991 the reality of Centrepoint came to light when six men and two women, including Potter, were arrested and charged with offences including indecent assaulting a minor and attempted rape of a minor.
In 1992, Potter was sentenced to seven years jail after he was found guilty of 13 charges of indecently assaulting five girls, some as young as three and a half, between 1979 and 1984.
Potter’s daughter in law, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, the wife of his son John, said today Potter passed away at Middlemore Hospital, in South Auckland, at 1am.
She said he had been living in a small pensioner flat in Auckland until about two months ago when his heath deteriorated to such a level that he was transferred to a rest home.
He suffered from Alzheimer’s and had reached the stage where he wasn’t aware what was going on around him, she said.
So he got to forgot his deeds. Lucky for him. Not that he ever regretted his lifestyle. Animal.
HIS VILE DAUGHTER IN LAW…….
Potter’s son John is married to Felicity Goodyear-Smith, who formerly lived at Centrepoint as the community’s General Practitioner,[6] now a Professor at the University of Auckland.[7] In 1993 Goodyear-Smith published a book on what she saw as the child abuse industry.[8][9] In 2005 Goodyear-Smith was one of the authors of an ACC-funded paper suggesting that a formal diagnosis of mental injury should be required before victims of sexual assault are treated.[5] The paper may have been a contributing factor to policy changes at ACC which led to a significant drop in the number of sexual assault victims receiving state-funded sexual abuse counselling.[5]
John Banks Talks – Shouldn’t.
Act’s single vote in Parliament may prove crucial to National in passing any legislation needed to enact a deal between the Government and SkyCity, which would see the building of a national convention centre in exchange for the company getting more poker machines in its Auckland casino.
Yes, I Know, the entire country loathes the moron – apart from the sheep rooting racist, sexist, hateful members of our country. But making statements with no support from facts or reasons why you think interest should be added to student loans just shows what an attention seeking mentally challenged joke he is. Nor seemingly possible of change. Idiot sad fuck. And he will get all the contentious National policy through, like the Sky Convention Deal.
In a hard-hitting speech to Act’s annual conference on Saturday – his first as both party member and leader – Mr Banks reconfirmed Act’s policy to incrementally raise the age of entitlement for state-funded superannuation from 65 to 67.
He told the 80 or so party members present that Act’s role was to provide some “reinforcing steel” to persuade National to make the unpopular decisions needed to restore the vital connection between “effort and reward” which had been undermined by Labour administrations.
The requirement for full-time students to pay interest while studying was dropped in 2001, and in 2006 all borrowers remaining in New Zealand were made exempt. The 91,000 borrowers who have since moved overseas – owing a total of about $2.5 billion – accumulate interest on their loans. Their debt accounts for about 20 per cent of the total loan balance of about $12 billion.
“We stand against middle-class welfare … We stand against everybody else being taxed for tertiary graduates to have a free ride.”
Mr Banks also had harsh words for “tin god council bureaucrats” whose “out-of-control” spending and town planning restrictions had put home ownership out of reach of a whole generation of New Zealanders.
He said Act had an “awesome responsibility” in ensuring it returned MPs in numbers at the 2014 election to ensure the centre-right stayed in power.
Former TV Host To Be Re-Sentenced For Child Sex Act.
This is sensible news, and he needs a sensible sentence, unlike the first one. The fact he was drunk, he had ‘lost fame’ or work does not mitigate the act happened.
Auckland District Court judge Philippa Cunningham ruled the consequences of a conviction would outweigh the offending and said the man was a talented New Zealander. The decision caused controversy and the Crown sought a review.
In a High Court decision released yesterday, Justice Murray Gilbert ruled the man should be resentenced, NZ Newswire reported.
Gilbert agreed with Crown submissions that the consequences of a conviction did not outweigh the offending, that the judge did not take into account a guilty plea and said the fact the man was drunk should not have been a factor.








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