"She refused to go to her room, so a 10-year-old girl was gagged and bound with duct tape and shut in a laundry by her furious father..."
"A Masterton man was jailed for pretending to hang his 9-year-old son in a mock execution, and binding another of his sons with chains before beating him with a piece of wood..."
I will be running a series of posts on this town, as for a town of 20,000 it is way over represented in the court news. I know that about 25% of the regional prison inmate name Masterton as 'home'...
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It's a result of all those hours spent by the local yoof cruisin' Chapel Street on a Friday night looking for something (or somebody) to do.
Later in life the tedium obviously unhinges some.
/sarc
It's a weird, schizoid place to live in. One the one hand there are many ordinary, decent folk and on the other.......
The subsidized housing is a large part of the problem. That and damn-near invisible policing. (invisible, that is until the speedo creeps up to a few k's over the limit).
Looked like a nice place last time I was there.
That's it- it is mostly a nice place, full of ordinary decent folks. As for the rest, I believe KG has it spot-on.
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