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Kiwis caught in ‘Sweetie’ child sex sting Dutch children’s rights organisation Terre des Hommes has identified 1000 adults who were willing to pay children in developing countries to perform sexual acts in front of a webcam. Included on the predator list were the names of four New Zealanders.
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Roasting: Sexual act of two men and one girl. One guy in her mouth, one in vagina. Looks as though the girl is on a spit roast.
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stuff.co.nz
Thousands march in Roast Busters protests
KATIE KENNY
The Wellington march ended in Civic Square.
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There were protests held in Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
The New Zealand Herald
Roast Busters: Protests today aim to ‘bust rape culture’
By Brendan Manning
3:11 PM Saturday Nov 16, 2013
Thousands of protesters throughout the country have taken part in a series of synchronised protests today aiming to “bust rape culture”.
The protesters are campaigning for:
• Rape crisis centres to be adequately and sustainably funded
• Educational programmes set up focussing on rape prevention and awareness
• Police to put measures in place to allow for better support of survivors
• The Law Commission report into pre-trial and trial processes for sexual assault victims to be reinstated immediately.
Actor Sam Bunkall, better known as Boyd off Shortland Street, said he came to the march in conjunction with the work he does with the Rape Prevention Education organisation.
He said he was in two minds about the exposure the Roast Busters gang had created for rape awareness.
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“My issue is that you have these people calling for their heads and `they need to go to prison’ and it’s like, sweet, put them in prison….it doesn’t solve the problem.”
“What solves the problem is we need to look at the bigger picture and why that happened, why did Roast Busters [happen].”
“You look around at how much advertising objectifies women, the prevailing attitudes towards victim blaming and you can start to see how attitudes like this [exist].”
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3News
Fighting back against the Roast Busters
Friday 08 Nov 2013 7:00p.m.
Two young women are so concerned they’ve organised a public meeting which is underway in Auckland right now, they’ve set up a Facebook page, and they’re directing people to a petition.
They spoke with Campbell Live.
CLICK ON THE LINK FOR THE VIDEO INTERVIEW!
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PETITIONING THE PRIME MINISTER
Prime Minister John Key: bust the “Roast Busters” and show you take sexual violence seriously
Prime Minister John Key: bust the “Roast Busters” and show you take sexual violence seriously
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Petition by
Jessie Hume
*Trigger warning*
“Go ahead and call the cops- they can’t unrape you”
Imagine being a 13 year old girl who has been raped. By multiple boys. And your rape was filmed and then shared on Facebook, where an audience of thousands of anonymous users watched your personal strife. The next step would be to go to the police – and so you do. And their response? To ask what you were wearing. And then dismiss your rape, saying there’s not enough evidence to proceed.
That’s what happened to a 13 year old young woman who was raped two years ago.
She was the victim of Roast Busters, a group of boys who secretly filmed themselves gang raping intoxicated underage girls. They then humiliated these women by bragging on Facebook – posting videos and sharing the personal anguish of these women with an audience of thousands.
The police are saying there’s not enough evidence to convict these Roast Busters, so they won’t charge them. But, it’s now come to light that one of the rapists is, in fact, a local police officer’s son. And that in the past few years 4 victims have gone to the police – and their voices were consistently ignored.
It’s clear that the police force isn’t doing its part to find justice for these young women. These young women are being dismissed by the official body that is supposed to support those in need – and they have nowhere to turn to because of a lack of proper support services for victims of assault.
That’s why we need our Prime Minister to step up and do the right thing.
The current legal system is too intimidating for victims to come forward – and rapists are being convicted at extremely low rates. And no example of this is greater than these young women who have come forward about Roast Busters – only to be dismissed. Nothing has been done to alleviate the pain and shame these girls feel.
It’s time to demand justice for these young women. It’s time our Government ensured that protocols, including support services for people who are raped or assaulted, are in place so something like this doesn’t happen again.
Use your voice to help these young women whose voices are consistently being ignored.
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To:
John Key, Prime Minister
Dear Prime Minister Key,I ask that you please find justice for the many young women who were victimised by “Roast Busters.”It’s entirely unacceptable that our society would let gang rapists go free for years while multiple young women have approached the police seeking justice for their rapes.I ask that you find justice for these young women who will now have to live with the horrific memories of the actions of the “Roast Busters.” I also ask that you ensure proper protocols are in place so nothing so horrific can happen again, including ensuring the “Roast Busters” are charged and there are proper support services for people who have been raped or assaulted, especially as they cannot turn to the police for support.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
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Reached 20,000 signatures
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Peter Marshall: Police’s handling of Roast Busters case
Police Commissioner Peter Marshall talks to Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking about the Roast Busters case and the investigation into the the police’s handling of the case
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The New Zealand Herald
11:19 AM Friday Nov 8, 2013
Countdown is the latest advertiser to pull its adverts from RadioLive as the backlash against two of its talkback hosts’ discussions on the Roast Busters scandal continues.
The chain, which is owned by Progressive Enterprises, said it did not condone the comments made on Willie Jackson and John Tamihere afternoon show.
“We have now had the opportunity to review our advertising activity, and have withdrawn advertising from this radio station,” a spokesman said today.
The move comes after ANZ and Yellow announced yesterday they were pulling their ads from the station. Freeview said it would make sure its campaigns did not air during the Willie and JT Show and AA Insurance has indicated it will do the same.
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The New Zealand Herald
Roast Busters: Companies pull ads from RadioLive
By Patrice Dougan , APNZ staff 8:01 PM Thursday Nov 7, 201
At least four companies are pulling advertisements from RadioLive in further fallout over two of its talkback hosts’ discussions on the Roast Busters scandal.
Willie Jackson and John Tamihere have been criticised over the way they interviewed an 18-year-old girl who said she was friends of one of the gang’s victims on Tuesday.
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Now it has emerged that a number of advertisers have withdrawn their support of the show and RadioLive while the pair remains on air.
ANZ, Yellow and Freeview have confirmed they are cancelling their ads on the show, and AA Insurance has indicated the same.
It came after blogger Giovanni Tiso contacted around 30 companies which advertised on the Willie and JT Show yesterday, asking them if they would reconsider their support of the programme.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11153170
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The New Zealand Herald
Blogger accuses police of censorship
A blogger is alleging police censorship after his parody of the Roast Busters investigation led to an apparent threat of imprisonment or a fine.
Daily Blog editor Martyn Bradbury said he received an email from police asking him to remove the parody of a police recruitment poster within six hours of him posting it on the site this morning.
The parody poster, which included the police coat of arms and website address, said: “For two years we’ve known a group of boys have been raping underage girls and posting about them online … we’ve sent them all recruitment packs.”
It also parodied the police recruitment slogan, saying: “Get some better rape stories. You can rape as much as you like and we will just say there isn’t enough evidence to convict you.”
Police public affairs staff member Campbell Moore emailed Bradbury this afternoon to inform him the post was “potentially in breach of the Policing Act 2008”.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11153170
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“Parents of young girls need to have confidence that complaints to Police about sexual assault are investigated thoroughly and appropriately.”
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Police Minister Anne Tolley has referred the police handling of the Roast Busters case to the Independent Police Conduct Authority after meeting with Police Commissioner Peter Marshall this morning.
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It comes after it was revealed police received four complaints by alleged victims of the Roast Busters group of young men, between 2011 and last year. Are you concerned with how police have dealt with the Roast Busters case?
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stuff.co.nz
Independent inquiry into Roast Busters sex case
Last updated 10:17 07/11/2013
Police Minister Anne Tolley has ordered an independent investigation into the police handling of the Roast Busters sex case, saying she is disappointed. Four girls have come forward over incidents involving the Roast Busters group, police confirmed today after earlier saying there had been no formal complaints. Three girls came forward in 2011 and one girl came forward in 2012, police said today. Of the four, one girl had gone through the process of making her complaint formal, where an official statement was made by way of an evidential video interview. The girls were aged between 13 and 15, police said today.
Click on link for video!
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@Jezebel
Police have claimed, repeatedly, that they can’t do anything about the group because none of the victims have filed a formal complaint. That’s a lie. Two separate 13-year-old girls, among the Roast Busters’ first victims, filed complaints with police two fucking years ago.
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According to 3 News, not one, but
two of the group’s victims filed formal complaints with the police. Both of them were 13 at the time of the attack, and both of them filed reports in 2011. One says she was in a room with three of the boys when they raped her. She was so upset and traumatized by what happened to her that she wasn’t able to tell anyone about it for weeks, and then when she did,
this happened:
“I had a video interview where I had to act out what had happened with dolls […] It was traumatising.” But, apparently, it wasn’t enough. She said she felt like it was her word against the Roast Busters’. “They said that I didn’t have enough evidence to show, because I went out in clothes that was pretty much asking for it. […] I was asked a lot of questions about what I was wearing, and I went out in a skirt. “If it was me, it could be any of my friends. I knew it would carry on ,” she says. “I can’t believe nothing was done then. From then I have had my friends sexually abused by them. How many girls have been raped? I have seen posts done by girls saying Roast Busters ruined their lives […] They’ve gotten away with so much.”
Making a 13-year-old reenact her rape with dolls on video, and then telling her she was asking for it. Great policing. Really tops. The victim who spoke to 3News says she received an apology via Facebook from one of her attackers, Joseph Parker (the best place to make the most sincere Whoopsie-daisy Sorry About That Rape apologies), who, on the heels of saying he was sorry about all that rape that going to the police would just make it worse. The girl says she will re-file a complaint with police today. The cops, who until like 24 hours ago were swearing up and down that no girls had filed complaints, said that actually yeah, they were “thoroughly investigating” the two complaints from 2011 but that they didn’t have enough evidence to file any charges. They also say they’re investigating the whole “you were kinda asking for it” thing to which one of the victims was subjected.
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Radio hosts apologise over interview
AIMEE GULLIVER
Last updated 13:04 06/11/201
RadioLive host Willie Jackson
has apologised for an interview with a friend of an alleged victim of the Roast Busters group that some saw as victim blaming and supporting rape culture.
Fairfax NZ
Willie Jackson.
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On today’s show, Jackson said that they “absolutely don’t condone the actions of the Roast Busters” and were simply trying to discuss complex issues. “We have no problems apologising to Amy for causing offence. Not a problem at all. We thought we were sensitive yesterday, maybe we could have done a better job. “We’ve got the utmost respect for Amy for speaking out about her experience, it was an incredibly brave interview.” Comments on the interview on the RadioLive site were closed after 41 commenters vented their anger at the hosts for their attitude towards Amy, and the audio has now been taken down. “That was the most repugnant thing I’ve heard in a long time. If you want to know why women often don’t report rape, it’s right there in Willie & JT’s attitude,” Tom posted. Calls for Jackson and Tamihere to step down or be fired over the interview are rife on social media, with one user calling the interview “disgusting and highly socially irresponsible” and a “blatant support of rape culture by Willie Jackson and John Tamihere”.
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3 NEWS
Roast Busters victim asked to ‘re-enact’ alleged rape
Wednesday 06 Nov 2013 5:52p.m.
Ever since 3 News broke the story of the west Auckland Roast Busters, police have maintained they couldn’t prosecute the underage sex gang until they received a complaint from a victim.
Tonight it can be revealed the police did receive a complaint from one girl – two years ago.
The girl, now 15, says she felt it was her word against the Roast Busters and no charges were laid.
“This is my chance to say something. I couldn’t do anything two years ago. I want to do something now,” she told 3 News, in the presence of her mother and sister.
She wanted to be identified, but for legal reasons she is unable to be shown or named. She says she was sexually assaulted by the Roast Busters when she was 13. …
She believes she was one of the first victims. Afterwards, she blamed herself. She stopped eating and it took weeks to tell her family.
They immediately took her to the police, where she says she laid a complaint. Her brother handed over the boys’ names and addresses to the detective.
“I had a video interview where I had to act out what had happened with dolls […] It was traumatising.”
But, apparently, it wasn’t enough. She said she felt like it was her word against the Roast Busters’.
“They said that I didn’t have enough evidence to show, because I went out in clothes that was pretty much asking for it. […] I was asked a lot of questions about what I was wearing, and I went out in a skirt.
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3 NEWS
Roast Busters: Police warn vigilantes
Tuesday 05 Nov 2013 2:36p.m.
Police cannot lay charges against the group because none of the girls have laid a complaint.
Police are warning anyone against taking vigilante action against the Roast Busters – a group of Auckland teens who boast of having group sex with drunk girls and then name their victims online.
Police are also “strongly refuting” their investigations into the group have been affected because one of the group is the son of an officer.
“Police take any allegations of criminal offending by any of its officers or their families extremely seriously… police will not hesitate to thoroughly investigate staff facing allegations of a criminal nature and will put them before the court if there is a case to answer,” Waitemata police district commander Superintendent Bill Searle said today.
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CNN finally got round to reporting it
(CNN) — Police in New Zealand say they’re powerless to arrest two boys who’ve caused outrage with online boasts about raping underage girls too drunk to fight back.
The alleged offences happened two years ago but were only made public this week after local media came across a Facebook site, which named and “slut-shamed” girls the boys had allegedly attacked.
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@TheDailyBlogNZ
So, you are horrified by the
“Roast Busters”, and want to make a difference, but what can you do?
In my more frustrated moments, I would love to be that person carrying a torch at the front of a baying mob, crying for justice and making a difference to the outcome of a trial of people who have hurt someone else.
But we don’t live in a village of 100 people. These young men are not the only people out there perpetrating sex crimes. And we HAVE a justice system. It is flawed, but we need to use it so the flaws are SEEN, and changed, and our system can evolve with our understanding of right and wrong. An example of this is that rape used to be legal within marriage, and the laws evolved for the better with our societal changes.
We can’t nor should we, start a mob of people, so here are some ideas for how you can be brave, and carry your torch out into the community and really make a difference.
Be the light at the end of the tunnel.
Volunteer. Work on help lines. Or just be a strong and vocal voice for justice so that people see you as a safe refuge or support when they need it. Advocate for friends who need a voice. Speak for those still too traumatised to speak. Hold your friend’s hand when they decide they are brave enough to speak up, or pursue justice.
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Daily News
Monday, November 4, 2013, 2:16 PM
An online rape club where young men allegedly film themselves having group sex with underage girls after getting them black-out drunk is under investigation in New Zealand. The Aucklanders calling themselves Roast Busters are said to film their gang rapes with girls as young as 13 and then upload video to Facebook to share their accomplishment. According to Waitemata police three teens suspected behind the attacks, around the ages of 17 and 18, have been questioned but no arrests have been made because of a lack of evidence. As of Monday no victims have pressed charges. That doesn’t mean they’re not speaking out. “I just kept blacking out ’cause I had drunken too much,” an unidentified girl told local TV station, 3 News. “You could say I got raped. I had sex with three guys at one time.” … A young woman identified by Facebook users as one of member’s ex-girlfriends, defended the young men responsible for the crimes against young girls. “Everyone’s quick to judge by what they’ve seen on tv. The girls. Gave consent they weren’t raped. They even went back for more,” she wrote. “I’m not saying it’s right what they did. But quick to judge the boys. Plus no girl has even come forward about getting raped. The wrong thing was they were underage. But they still did it regardless.”
ngolgowski@nydailynews.com
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THIS IS AN EXTREMELY INSIGHTFUL ARTICLE!
How NZ men raised their sons up to be Roastbusters
Amidst all the handwringing, anger, disgust and blame that has come with the revelations about the self-proclaimed Roastbusters, I have not been aware of any commentary on how we raised these sexual predators within the bosom of our community.
Click on the link, and read and digest…
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The New Zealand Herald
Another vigilante group has sprung up on Facebook calling for the “Roast Busters” group to be held to account. Police say they’re powerless to act against the group of boys from West Auckland, who boasted online about stupefying teenage girls, then having sex with them. It is understood at least one of the girls who got involved with the group has attempted suicide. Detective Inspector Bruce Scott has insisted the group had been “vigorously investigated” but that there’s nothing more police can do to take the case to court unless one of the girls lays an official complaint. That’s led to an outcry and the establishment of online groups promising their own brand of justice. The new vigilante group set up offers a “4k reward for footage of Roastbusters getting hidings”. “Will pay for footage of the RoastBusters being taken care of. We do not encourage violence, simply if you happen to have footage, we’ll buy it from you. …
Online tormentor loses job
One of the young men at the centre of the “Roast Busters” sex scandal has been sacked for his “despicable behaviour”, as police come under growing pressure to take action. Joseph Levall Parker, son of Hollywood actor Anthony Ray Parker, was fired from his job in an Auckland real estate office amid the outcry over the group’s online boasts.
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Meet the reviled “Roastbusters” Teen Group Sex Club
New “slut shaming” scandal sparks police investigation of alleged gang rapes and Facebook boasting about foul acts
Sexual violence and slut-shaming are inherently sickening acts, but this latest story out of (otherwise) beautiful New Zealand is especially difficult to swallow. Two Auckland boys, Beraiah Hales, 17, and Joseph Levall Parker, 18, have been publicly unmasked as the culprits behind “Roast Busters,” an alleged gang-sex (and rape?) phenomenon, and the Facebook group that served as its online chronicle. The teenagers are accused of plying girls a young as 13 with alcohol, sexually violating them by way of a “roast,” and then boasting about it on their public Facebook group. The act itself (which formed the core plot-line of the cult Ben Affleck film “Chasing Amy”) is so unmentionable that I defer to Urban Dictionary to enlighten you: Roasting: Sexual act of two men and one girl. One guy in her mouth, one in vagina. Looks as though the girl is on a spit roast.
Parker and Hales …
..Hales is the son of local police officer, and Parker’s father is the C-list American actor Anthony Ray Parker, otherwise known as “Dozer” in the Matrix (Dozer if you recall was the ill-fated pilot of the rebels’ “Nebuchadnezzar” ship).
Anthony Ray Parker as Dozer
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“RoastBusters” investigation – update
Tuesday, 5 November 2013, 1:53 pm Press Release: New Zealand Police“RoastBusters” investigation – update 5 November 2013 – Waitematā Police District Commander Superintendent Bill Searle strongly refutes any suggestion that an inquiry into a group calling themselves the “RoastBusters” was affected by the involvement of a Police Officer’s son. “NZ Police take any allegations of criminal offending by any of it’s officers or their families extremely seriously and recent cases have highlighted that Police will not hesitate to thoroughly investigate staff facing allegations of a criminal nature and will put them before the court if there is a case to answer.” The investigation into the group’s actions continues. Two of the young men spoke with Police yesterday afternoon and that information is now being assessed by the enquiry team. A Senior Detective who is independent from the investigation has been brought in from outside the Waitemata District to provide extra support.
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@NewstalkZB OPINION: wonders where the parents of the ‘
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By: Rachel Smalley | Tuesday, 5 November 2013They call themselves the ‘Roast Busters’ – a vile name and it’s the last time I’ll refer to them in such a way. They are in fact a gang of sexual abusers, of paedophiles, of rapists.17 and 18-year-old men who’ve documented on Facebook how they target young girls stupefied by alcohol, many as young as 13, and they rape them and post their exploits online.The police say there’s not a lot they can do. They don’t have sufficient evidence to lay charges and no-one has laid a complaint. But they say they’ve been watching this gang on Facebook for two years.But from what they’ve seen, police say, their actions are criminal. Yes, police say the gang’s actions amount to rape – that is not in question.But there are many questions. How is it, for a start, that we’re raising children with no empathy? How can a child reach puberty devoid of a moral compass? How is that young men, some as young as 15 when they started, have developed a grotesque sense of sexual entitlement? They’re at school for goodness sake – young sexual predators in our education system.Another question – why don’t these young men fear the police? They’ve been spoken to, told they’re being watched, told that their actions are criminal. But some ignored the police and chose to persist with their behaviour. They ignored police. – just ignored them and carried on. They’ve continued to target young girls and to rape. It beggars belief.And then I heard
Larry Williams’ interview with Rape Prevention Education last night, and they said the attitudes of these 17 and 18-year-olds are widespread. From the work that Rape Prevention Education is doing in our schools, they say they’ve discovered that many young men are learning about sex through pornography. So they watch the simulation of rape or the control or the humiliation of women and then these young men develop similar attitudes, says Rape Prevention Education. Sex, in their minds, amounts to the degradation of women.
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PC & Tech Authority
Facebook shuts down Roast Busters group page
A New Zealand Facebook group that regularly boasts about non-consensual sex with young women has been revealed, and shut down.
Thanks to reporting of the issue from a New Zealand news service, Facebook has shut down the page of a group posting videos boasting of under-age sexual conquests.
The ‘Roast Busters’ Facebook group was maintained by a number of young New Zealand men, to not only share their experiences of taking advantage of women – often with the use of alcohol – but also to recruit new members.
3 News revealed the story and contacted Facebook, which is what got the page taken down. Despite the fact that police have been monitoring the site since 2011, Facebook was unable or unwilling to act – it had received no complaints about the page. Likewise, New Zealand police did not do more than monitor the group because it too had received no criminal complaints from the victims – despite the fact that those women were often named in the Roast Busters’ reports. Since the news broke, the backlash against the group on social media has been quick and fierce. On Twitter, the hashtag #roastburners is the focus of a lot of anger. On Facebook, one of the group’s own members has
apologised for his behaviour, but has also drawn the ire of angry posters.
Similarly named pages on Facebook are also trying to distance themselves from the issue, while other groups are changing their name in apparent solidarity, like the Roast Busters Mt Albert Chapter (a link we’re not doing to embed for obvious reasons). The incident once again highlights the issues surrounding the monitoring of questionable and possibly illegal material on Facebook. The company points out on its
Safety Philosophy page that ‘Safety is a conversation’, and goes on to put the onus on Facebook users to report breaches of the company’s codes of conduct.
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DigitalOne
AFP | 04-11-13
More details about a group of young Auckland boys called the ‘Roast Busters’, who’ve been luring girls into underage group sex and boasting about it online, can now be revealed.
One boy being questioned by police is the son of a celebrity with an international profile, while the other is the son of an Auckland police officer.
One girl, who is choosing to remain anonymous, says the Roast Busters stole her soul.
“They don’t understand how I feel inside; they don’t understand how this has hurt me,” she says.
Police say the girl is one of a number of drunk, underage victims they’ve interviewed about being exploited by the Roast Busters.
The family of former Roast Buster Joseph Levall Parker has told us he left the six-member group mid-year, while several others have also bowed out.
weehingthong 
This problem is rife in New Zealand. Authorities go to extraordinary lengths to encourage under age sex. Our 14-year old daughter was also victim of a gang like this in Auckland. NZ authorities gagged us (parents) and our two sons in order to keep us quiet. The NZ Head of State gave the men medals.
http://bit.ly/ourNZexperience
That’s atrocious, and tragic.
Not suprised that one of them is a cops son. How can the police not do anything? They are just as bad if they do nothing. The sick animals need a bullet
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