When Campbell Hill’s house was burgled for the second time in a fortnight back in 2012, the Tauranga local found himself face to face with one of the teenagers responsible. “We ended up at a family group conference, and there was lots of arguing,” he told Newstalk ZB’s Real Life with John Cowan on Sunday night. “I just put my hand up in the middle and said, ‘I’m not too sure what the answer is for these young guys, but I need to mentor them’.
Everyone said ‘You can’t mentor them, you’re a victim’. “And I said, ‘Well if that was my son, someone [would] need to mentor him – and I’m putting my hand up’.”.