From time to time there are conversations and calls to talkback that justify why I listen. When the debate gets gritty most calls demand attention. But then one call will stop you still. It happened on Leighton Smith's show today.
The scissor attack in a Pacifc Christian South Auckland school, following a myriad of other recent violent incidents, prompted the conversation we have ad nauseam : Why?
A quietly spoken Samoan lady described her upbringing as seriously sexually abused and physically beaten by her palangi father from the age of three. Farmed out to father's friends for sexual gratification.
Leighton asked, where was your mother? She had left. Deserted the family to the father's custody.
When she confronted her mother years later, her mother said, "Better you than me. You were bred for him."
It gets worse. The caller went on to marry and have her own family. But when her mother told the caller's husband about the abuse, he declared her "used goods" and walked out. Left her to raise the children alone. Which she has done well by all accounts.
How vicious and inhuman and self-indulgent and evil some people are.
(If you cared to listen her call crosses from the end of the 10.15-10.30 am quarter to the next)
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