Janet Moses tragedy will not deter Maori from makutu ritual - Tuhoe elder

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:00a.m.

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A Tuhoe elder says the guilty verdicts in the Janet Moses manslaughter case will not stop Maori from carrying out Makutu-lifting ceremonies.

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14 Jun 2009 12:26p.m.

k wrote:

Its astonishing to see this kind of thing still happening and accepted in some quarters in a modern civilised society such as ours, you almost have to start suggesting that regulating all types of unconventional practices to try and stop this kind of nonsense carrying on. This type of so called healing the way that it was administered to the poor women was clearly from a common sense perspective absurd let alone have the minutest scientific or health and safety basis for it. i think there should be a law regulating the extent any such practices should take without obviously compromising basic and common sense and accepted safety standards so people at least will have to really think twice about what they believe and the whole basis for it. boggles the mind.