Keith Paora Curry (sometimes ''Keith Paul Curry'') was the first male nurse in

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's Plunket

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service. On 23 May 2005, the

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-trained bilingual nurse with 10 years nursing experience started work at the

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, New Zealand's century-old

organisation. 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. Curry was also disciplined in 2011 for giving a pregnant woman inappropriate drugs in July 2009. Neither occurred while he was working for Plunket. Curry has been struck off the nurse's register under the

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by the

Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand hears and determines disciplinary proceedings brought against health practitioners. The Tribunal was created by section 84 Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 and establ ...

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

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