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3 days ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jeremy Wilkinson
The teacher was in her first job after becoming registered when she had sexual contact with two students. Photo / 123rfA teacher has been denied the right to “retire with dignity” after she was found to have had sex with a male student and kissed his friend at the start of her career. The woman, who has name suppression, asked the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal not to penalise her despite having sex with one senior college-age student, and kissing another, at her first teaching job in the 1980s.
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4 days ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jeremy Wilkinson
The woman said she lived in constant fear of her husband. Photo / 123RFA lawyer who says she feared for her life at the hands of an abusive husband took at least $200,000 from her clients, partly to escape the relationship. “I understand how on the face this looks like a simple story of a lawyer who misused client funds,” she told a disciplinary tribunal today, “but, this is a story of a long shadow of domestic violence”.
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6 days ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Jeremy Wilkinson
By Jeremy Wilkinson, Open Justice multimedia journalist of New Zealanders are travelling overseas to illegally commission surrogate babies from Thai women, and bringing them back home to adopt them despite opposition from Oranga Tamariki. It's a practice the agency has labelled a "concerning trend" and it said there had been five cases where surrogate parents have flouted international law to have children in recent years.
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1 week ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jeremy Wilkinson
Samantha Bailey's registration has been cancelled, but she continues to claim she is a doctor. A former doctor and TVNZ presenter still states she is a doctor on her controversial YouTube channel despite not holding a practising certificate since 2021, and having her registration cancelled.
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1 week ago | 
odt.co.nz | Jeremy Wilkinson
By Jeremy Wilkinson, Open Justice multimedia journalistA former TVNZ presenter and doctor from Christchurch has claimed, in a series of YouTube videos that garnered thousands of views, that HIV doesn’t exist and gonorrhoea isn’t sexually transmitted. Samantha Bailey, who was previously one of four presenters on the TVNZ health series The Checkup, has worked in a range of healthcare roles.
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1 week ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Jeremy Wilkinson
By Jeremy Wilkinson, Open Justice reporter of A former TVNZ presenter and doctor has claimed, in a series of YouTube videos that garnered thousands of views, that HIV doesn't exist and gonorrhoea isn't sexually transmitted. Samantha Bailey, who was previously one of four presenters on the TVNZ health series The Checkup, has worked in a range of healthcare roles.
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1 week ago | 
radionz.co.nz | Jeremy Wilkinson
By Jeremy Wilkinson, Open Justice reporter of A former TVNZ presenter and doctor has claimed, in a series of YouTube videos that garnered thousands of views, that HIV doesn't exist and gonorrhoea isn't sexually transmitted. Samantha Bailey, who was previously one of four presenters on the TVNZ health series The Checkup, has worked in a range of healthcare roles.
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2 weeks ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Jeremy Wilkinson
By Jeremy Wilkinson, Open Justice reporter of A woman took US$10 million (NZ$16.9m) from a bank account she shared with her father and gave most of it to her lover to invest on her behalf, only for him to flee to Italy with it. Russian woman Inna Shibalova had fallen in love with a married man, Andrey Ivanov, and believed he would invest the money on her behalf, so she could provide for her mother and sister. Shibalova also believed Ivanov would leave his wife to be with her.
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2 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Jeremy Wilkinson
Private investigators worked hundreds of hours to find the money that Inna Shibalova's lover stole. Photo / 123rfA woman took US$10 million ($16.9m) from a bank account she shared with her father and gave most of it to her lover to invest on her behalf, only for him to flee to Italy with it. Russian woman Inna Shibalova had fallen in love with a married man, Andrey Ivanov, and believed he would invest the money on her behalf so she could provide for her mother and sister.
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2 weeks ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Jeremy Wilkinson
By Jeremy Wilkinson, Open Justice reporter of Warning: This story includes content some readers may find disturbing. A New Zealand-born man who raped a drunk 15-year-old in Australia has avoided deportation so he can care for family members. Hoane Joseph Kahu was 20 when, in 2005, he saw the teen walking by herself in Gladstone, Queensland. He pulled the heavily intoxicated girl by her hair and raped her.
