Well it's not like it's a crime or anything..
Here is the confession of the incompetent and incapable cretins not carrying out their well paid duties of care and their pathetic excuse..
After the hearing, CYF deputy chief executive Ray Smith said Bennett, then aged 16, was under no legal orders that required her to be constantly watched.
"We and a team of experienced professionals had put every resource available into trying to help Tonya lead a normal life. We tried to give her guidance, allow her some freedoms and equip her with the skills she needed to live successfully in the community."We and a team of experienced professionals had put every resource available into trying to help Tonya lead a normal life
So how incompetent are they ?
Teen in care at time of arson and murder
A teenage girl was in state care when she crept into a former boyfriend's home, doused his clothes in absinthe and started a fire which burned his mother to death.
Police were alerted when her Child, Youth and Family-appointed supervisor heard her accomplice talking about their crimes, a court was told.
Tonia Bennett, whose name is also spelled Tonya, pleaded guilty to two counts of arson and the murder of Lynette Chapman, 49, in March this year.
Yesterday, in the High Court at Auckland, Justice Geoffrey Venning sentenced Bennett, 17, to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 11 1/2 years.
Ms Chapman's father, Bob Hunkin, said his life had been shattered forever by his daughter's murder.
"What had she done to deserve this? What was your motive? Why did you stoop to such a cowardly act to set her home on fire knowing full well she was asleep upstairs?"
The court was told that Bennett had been drinking and taking drugs at her CYF-supervised home in Pukekohe on January 20 last year.
She was angry with her ex-boyfriend, Brad Chapman, and decided to take some of his clothes to his home across the road and set them on fire.
Crown prosecutor Kevin Glubb said Brad, 18, and his two brothers, Todd, 20, and Cole, 13, were staying at their father's that night.
About 1am Bennett soaked a T-shirt in absinthe and tried to set it on fire on Ms Chapman's doorstep. When it did not fully alight, she used a spare key to enter the home.
She soaked a sweatshirt in absinthe and ignited it in the stairwell of the house.
Bennett later told police she could hear a television going and knew someone was home.
Ms Chapman was overcome by smoke and died in her second-storey bedroom.
Ms Chapman's son Brad, who introduced Bennett to his mother, looked Bennett in the eye as he read his victim impact statement in court.
"Without warning you did this cruel and evil act ... you took our mother's life.
"I keep asking myself, why? How could you do this? It still doesn't make sense to me."
His brother Todd said he would never forgive her.
"Why did you do it? You ruined everything. You have taken something that cannot be replaced. Now you have to pay the consequences."
Their younger brother Cole wiped away tears as the court heard how he missed his mum every day. "I could never explain in words just how my life has changed as a result of what you did."
A 19-year-old man who was with Bennett on the night of the fire was also charged over the death. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and arson in March and was jailed for two years.
After the hearing, CYF deputy chief executive Ray Smith said Bennett, then aged 16, was under no legal orders that required her to be constantly watched.
"We and a team of experienced professionals had put every resource available into trying to help Tonya lead a normal life. We tried to give her guidance, allow her some freedoms and equip her with the skills she needed to live successfully in the community.
"Tonya turned her back on that and, with a friend, committed a terrible crime."
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