Helping survivors of abuse to find answers

Helping survivors of abuse to find answers

Christine Ammunson, placed in foster care from birth until she was five years old, accessed her case files when she was 52: “The pieces of paper inside told me that my family wanted me, and that the government should never have taken me.” A new website, Kōnae, has been set up to help survivors of abuse access their records. Here, Christine Ammuson, one of hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who were taken from their families as children, exp…