Keith Paora Curry (sometimes Keith Paul Curry) was the first male nurse in New Zealand's Plunket maternal health service. On 23 May 2005, the Northland Polytechnic-trained bilingual nurse with 10 years nursing experience started work at the Plunket Society, New Zealand's century-old maternal health organisation.[1][2][3]

In May 2010 Curry was sentenced to a year in prison for internet grooming a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl between June and September 2009.[4] Curry was also disciplined in 2011 for giving a pregnant woman inappropriate drugs in July 2009.[5] Neither occurred while he was working for Plunket. Curry has been struck off the nurse's register under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal.[6]

On 29 July 2014, the NZ Sensible Sentencing Trust advised the public via Facebook that Curry had changed his name to Paora Muriwai-Curry.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ "First male Plunket nurse creates historical first". nzherald.co.nz. 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  2. ^ "First male Plunket nurse starts work". nzherald.co.nz. 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  3. ^ "Plunket welcomes first male Plunket Nurse". scoop.co.nz. 2006. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  4. ^ "Nurse who sexually groomed girls struck off". nzherald.co.nz. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  5. ^ "Pregnant woman given potentially harmful pills". nzherald.co.nz. 10 November 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  6. ^ "Nur11/174P". hpdt.org.nz. 2011. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  7. ^ "Sensible Sentencing Trust". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020.