In what New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has described as an “incredibly distressing and concerning” case, an 11-year-old, non-verbal girl was taken by police to a mental health facility where she was handcuffed and given psychiatric drugs.
He wants to know why ministers were only informed of the incident after an inquiry from the media on the afternoon of March 21, two weeks after it occurred—a delay he called “unacceptable.”
