St Joseph's Upper Hutt - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:32:44 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg St Joseph's Upper Hutt - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Judge bans Principal's attacker from St Joseph's school grounds https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/12/21/judge-bans-principals-attacker-from-st-josephs-school-grounds/ Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:30:56 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=38181

The man accused of assaulting Peter Ahern, the principal of St Joseph's School in Upper Hutt, has been told not to enter school grounds. Daniel Wilson, 39, appeared in Upper Hutt District Court on Wednesday 19 December, where he was remanded on bail until January. Wilson, the uncle of a pupil at the school, is not Read more

Judge bans Principal's attacker from St Joseph's school grounds... Read more]]> The man accused of assaulting Peter Ahern, the principal of St Joseph's School in Upper Hutt, has been told not to enter school grounds.

Daniel Wilson, 39, appeared in Upper Hutt District Court on Wednesday 19 December, where he was remanded on bail until January.

Wilson, the uncle of a pupil at the school, is not to enter St Joseph's grounds or to approach Ahern and one other person.

Wilson went with another person to the school last Wednesday to voice concern about a man who had been seen visiting the school.

Parents had learned that this man, who is in his 60s, had been convicted of paedophile offences more than 20 years ago.

According to Ahern the meeting had been amicable until, at its conclusion, the assault happened.

Ahern needed stitches for a split head and had bruised ribs after the incident, likened to a 'home invasion" by the school's board of trustees chairman Mark Petersen.

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Judge bans Principal's attacker from St Joseph's school grounds]]> 38181 Protocols will be drafted to ensure schools informed https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/12/18/protocols-will-be-drafted-to-ensure-schools-informed/ Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:30:47 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=37989 The Catholic Education Office head Pat Lynch says some protocols will be drafted to ensure parishes inform schools if one of its volunteers or members has been convicted of paedophilia. He was responding to concern that pupils from an Upper Hutt Catholic primary school went to a prayer group that included a convicted paedophile St Read more

Protocols will be drafted to ensure schools informed... Read more]]> The Catholic Education Office head Pat Lynch says some protocols will be drafted to ensure parishes inform schools if one of its volunteers or members has been convicted of paedophilia.

He was responding to concern that pupils from an Upper Hutt Catholic primary school went to a prayer group that included a convicted paedophile

St Joseph's Primary School in Upper Hutt says the nearby parish knew about the man's convictions but never warned the school.

St Joseph's parish says it did not warn the school as there were no rules requiring it to do so.

The Catholic Education Office says that while that's true, it would have been prudent to keep the man well away from children.

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Protocols will be drafted to ensure schools informed]]> 37989 Catholic school principal beaten up by pupil's uncle https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/12/14/catholic-school-principal-beaten-up-by-pupils-uncle/ Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:30:51 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=37829

An Upper Hutt primary school principal suffered a split head and bruised ribs after a "sustained beating" from a relative of one of his pupils. The pupil's uncle laid into St Joseph's School principal Peter Ahern during a meeting over his nephew, punching the stunned principal then kicking him while he was on the ground. Read more

Catholic school principal beaten up by pupil's uncle... Read more]]> An Upper Hutt primary school principal suffered a split head and bruised ribs after a "sustained beating" from a relative of one of his pupils.

The pupil's uncle laid into St Joseph's School principal Peter Ahern during a meeting over his nephew, punching the stunned principal then kicking him while he was on the ground.

Mr Ahern said two uncles attended the meeting yesterday, about 9am.

The meeting had seemed to be going well, then one of the men "lost the plot".

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