School stuck in middle of Kaitaia’s sex abuse cases

NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Herald

By Yvonne Tahana

Teachers are walking a tightrope at Kaitaia College as they try to look after students without identifying victims of sexual abuse, principal William Tailby says.

The Far North town has been rocked by three cases this year. All involved men in positions of trust and standing in the community.

In the latest case, Daniel Luke Taylor, 37, who was the vice-president of the Kaitaia Business Association, faces 17 charges, mostly against juvenile boys.

Eric Clifford Reid, 63, a pastor at Kaitaia Family Church, pleaded guilty to 25 charges of making intimate visual recordings and 24 charges of possessing intimate visual recordings related to a woman and a teenage girl.

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