Interesting observations Wheels.
Unfortunately the Mental Health Services in NZ are decidedly third world so I wouldn't hold out much hope for Shane there.
Shane's life is a horror story of abuse, the worst of it experienced under State care.
Also he's intellectually disabled; in times past he would have been under care of the IHC.
He may have a metal illness as well, but I don't know.
He was in State care at about 7 or 8 years of age where he quickly had to learn how to f*ck and suck his caregivers and the older kids.
And the day he turned 16, like all kids in State care then, he