Dilworth Trust Board to apologise for decades of horrific child abuse at school [Video]

The Dilworth Trust Board is expected to apologise to the school community at a March 1 event after decades of abuse. 

The event is planned to be a private one where the board will acknowledge the impact of abuse on survivors and the broader community. 

A webpage on the Dilworth Response website said the trust board will formally acknowledge and apologise to its community for the abuse that occurred. 

“It is a private occasion for survivors of abuse, their families and whānau, and other members of the Dilworth community.” 

The webpage said the purpose of the apology was to acknowledge and take accountability for decisions, actions and failures that led to several decades of abuse at Dilworth School and the harm it caused. 

For years, abuse was covered up at Dilworth and at times a child abuse ring operated, such as the one in the early 1980s involving the now-imprisoned …