[Note Family First is a registered charity with the Charities Commission. See www.familyfirst.org.nz and www.charities.govt.nz ]

Family First NZ says that a doctor convicted of possessing and distributing child sex abuse images should be named.

“Patients and parents should be informed so that they can make an informed choice as to whether they continue having him as their family doctor, even after his nine month suspension,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of
Family First NZ.

“The doctor in question admitted 25 charges of possessing objectionable material and one charge of distributing an objectionable publication. He not only had 290,000 images of young girls in explicit sexual poses but as well as that, the doctor was found to be distributing objectionable material further. This is not a one-off slip.”

“The rights of the doctor to name suppression and privacy should not be greater than the right of patients and especially parents to know the character of their doctor. That is the price the doctor must pay to match the gravity of
the abuse of children. Many parents would rightly be concerned at a doctor with those convictions examining their young son or daughter.”

“Parents should be given the right to make an informed decision,” says Mr McCoskrie.

CVC Group Ltd is 39% owned by Velocity Partners Ltd that is owned and directed by the same American businessman. CVC Group is also 10% owned by Electronic Publishing Ltd which is also directed by John M Carr.

Mr John Malcolm Carr, who up until recently co-directed CVC Group and its daughter company Eden Digital Ltd with Steve Crow, is scheduled to face eight criminal charges in the Auckland District Court on Tuesday 28 September 2010. These have been brought against him by the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) for alleged breaches of the Financial Reporting Act 1993 relating to Velocity Partners Ltd, PJ Digital Ltd, Shelf Company No 10 and First Virtual Deposit & Nominee Company Ltd – all companies owned and directed by John Malcolm Carr.

With respect to Vixen Publications and Sidefx, the Registrar’s notice states:

“I am satisfied that these companies have ceased to carry on business and there is no other reason for these companies to continue in existence or that no liquidator is acting.

“Unless, under section 321 of the Companies Act 1993, written objection to removal of any of the above-named companies is delivered to the Registrar by 30 September 2010, being not less than 20 working days from the date of this notice, the Registrar is required to remove the companies from the Register.”

Steve Crow was banned as a director for four years from 16 April 2010 to 16 April 2014 and the Notice of the banning order was served on him by the MED on Friday 14 May 2010. He resigned from all companies he directed on 15 May and these include: HWGA Company Ltd, Sidefx Ltd, Vixen Publications Ltd, and Eden Digital Ltd. Before doing so his brother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and his sister Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, New Plymouth, were appointed directors of HWGA Company Ltd. John Malcolm Carr remains as sole director of the hardcore porn companies Eden Digital Ltd and CVC Group Ltd.

The Kiwi porn baron Steve Crow has said he would consider bankruptcy in a bid to get a major Australian supplier of sex toys and DVDs off his back. Crow, who defended himself in the High Court in Auckland yesterday is challenging a judgment of $39,000 owed to Calvista Australia. Calvista says it’s owed for goods supplied to Crow’s companies in New Zealand. Crow said Calvista had revived an old Vixen Direct account – one of his companies – after no dealings with him for six years. The Dominion Post reports that Crow, who is behind the annual Boobs on Bikes parade and Erotica Expo, was this year banned from directing or managing a company for four years. ”I do not have $39,000 in a bank account. I have assets many, many times that,” Crow said. ”The only issue is if I’m unsuccessful in this appeal … I would have to liquidate assets. The other choice is to bankrupt myself.”

http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-diary/a-latin-lover-is-good-for-alibi-20100825-13s8o.html

Background Notes:

In the Judgment of Cooper J (1 July 2010) CIV 2010-404-2295 issued in the High Court of Auckland in the case:

Stephen Peter Crow (Appellant) v Calvista Australia Pty Ltd (Respondent)

… an application of Stay on proceedings was granted to Mr SP Crow until 25 August 2010. MC Brugeyroux acted for the Respondent. The capital component of the judgement is $39,897.36. Solicitors acting for the Respondent were Wyyard Wood P.O. Box 2217 Auckland. The Appellant’s address is given on Court documents as 27 Northwood Avenue, Albany, NSC 0632.

Kiwi pornographer Steve Crow turned lawyer for a day in the High Court at Auckland in a scrap over a whopping bill owed to a sex toy and DVD company in Australia.

Calvista Australia Pty, which has an office in Auckland, says it is owed for goods supplied to Crow’s companies in New Zealand. It had earlier won a judgment by default in the Auckland District Court for A$39,897.36 with certain conditions which meant he has to put up the money as security while he continues disputing the case.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4060652/Crow-represents-self-in-sex-toy-appeal

But Crow, who was today appealing that decision over the security, told Justice Judith Potter today that Calvista’s action is opportunistic and malicious. ”They are trying to ascribe liability where none exists,” he said. ”The order is unjust and inconsistent.”

Crow said the district court judge was wrong in making the default order. ”I’m being asked to pay $39,000 because my lawyers did something wrong. I’m not going to do that. It’s not going to happen. It’s a situation best argued in the district court,” said Crow.

He said his lawyers were late in filing a statement of defence and Crow then moved quickly to try and remedy the situation. ”The substantive matter is very simple. If we had gone under normal timelines in the district court, it would have been thrown out,” he claimed in court. Calivista argued Crow had not proved the district court judge had acted on a wrong principle.

Justice Potter reserved her decision.

“But the billboard that expo organiser Steve Crow unveiled this week is of a different order [to the parade] altogether. By any measure, the image is objectionable in a public context and you don’t have to be a purse-lipped prude to think so.

“Puerile and dismally witless, it is also quite calculatedly offensive because it seeks not to attract those who are interested but to outrage those who are not.

“Hard-core pornography  – You know it when you see it … it is beyond distasteful and truly offensive

“Crow is terribly pleased with himself because of all the publicity he’s received. But the rest of us should make it plain what we think of this sort of cynical marketing.”

For full article see http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10666077

Up until May 15 when he was forced to resign as director of all companies he was associated with, Steve Crow was a co-director with John Malcolm Carr, of Eden Digital Ltd. The banning order served on him on 14 May 2010 by the MED is effective for four years and prevents him from taking any part in the promotion, management, directing or day-to-day control of any aspect of the business activities of any company. And yet Steve Crow has taken out a permit in the name of Eden Digital Ltd so he can run the Queen Street Porn parade tomorrow promoting the three-day Erotica Lifestyles Expo funded by and a key income source for Eden Digital Ltd. He would appear to be the central figure in this porn promo operation.

The permit to run the Porn Street Promo was issued yesterday by the Events Team of Auckland District Council to Steve Crow and his brother David Bruce Crow, as event organisers for Eden Digital Ltd. David Bruce Crow of Inglewood, like his brother, is a failed company director. The company David Crow directed – Buildwise Ltd (In Liq) – put into liquidation last year, owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to Taranaki creditors. Another of his companies, 435 Devon Ltd owes tens of thousands of dollars in mortgage interest payments to the New Plymouth RSA club and PMIT Nominees Ltd. Steve and David, who together own 60% of the shares of 435 Devon Ltd, have now lost control of the $1.9 M property their company purchased in 2008, bought entirely using borrowed money.

A banned company director who is convicted of being in breach of a banning order can face up to 5 years jail or a very large fine under the Companies Act 1993. The Society has referred Mr Steve Crow’s activities involving Eden Digital Ltd to Mr Phil Day, Manager of the Enforcement Unit of the MED and to Mr Brent McDonald, Investigator – Director Prohibitions, MED.

When a company director is prohibited by the Registrar of Companies under section 385 (3) of the Companies Act 1993 from taking part in any matter relating to the directing or management of any company for four years , the Registrar must take action when such a director publicly disregards this prohibition and brazenly flouts the law. Such a director “commits an offence and is liable on conviction to the penalties set out in section 373(4) of this Act…. A person convicted of an offence for failure to comply with the Act… is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to a fine not exceeding $200,000.”

The names of directors such as Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow, currently banned by the MED, are published in the Gazette and can be accessed on the Companies Office website (www.companies.govt.nz) by searching under their full legal names. Those banned under s. 385(3) are banned, like Mr Crow, to protect the New Zealand public from such persons who have demonstrated a history of unsuccessful business ventures.

Steve Crow boasts on his Erotica Expo website that he and Miss Erotica Expo 2010 will be in the vehicle at the head of the bare-breasted porn promo event that will crawl its way down Auckland City streets tomorrow and later down Hamilton City streets on Thursday lunchtime. An employee of Eden Digital Ltd, Michelle Ruebe, notified media last week that $250,000 worth of porn DVDs will be given away (via free vouchers) to the public in tomorrow’s Queen Street lunchtime porn parade. Steve Crow has defended this porn giveaway as an effective means by which his porn company Eden Digital Ltd can help combat sexual violence committed by men against women. The company regularly submits DVDs it imports or produces locally, to the Chief Censor for classification. They all contain R18 sexually explicit content that regularly degrade and demean women. 

Media reports

Boobs on bikes for city?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/4008158/Boobs-on-bikes-for-city

Porn King boobs with DVD giveaway
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-news/news/4002403/Porn-king-boobs-with-DVD-giveaway

Steve Crow is intending to hand out $250,000 worth of free vouchers to those attending the porn parades, so they can purchase hard core pornography DVDs marketed by his failing business Vixen Direct. In a tawdry press release issued to Fairfax Media by Michelle Ruebe (on behalf of Vixen Direct dated 6/08/10), Crow has announced his intention to give away 12,500 vouchers in Auckland next week entitling the bearer to a full length hard-core porn DVD worth $20.00 from his distribution company Vixen Direct.

The New Zealand Police, always so ready to assist such events organised by Crow, will no doubt help in crowd control as teenage boys, porn-watching Ministers of the Crown and other ‘red-blooded kiwi blokes’ ,  lurch in frenzied latent lust towards the bare-breasted women handing out these titillating tawdry coupons – each one approved no doubt by the Acting Chief Censor – Ms Nicola McCully.

Porn Company CVC Group Ltd, directed by John Malcolm Carr, is 39% owned by Velocity Partners Ltd, a company he owns and directs. 40% of CVC Group is owned by HWGA Co Ltd, which is directed by Steve Crow’s brother and sister, David Bruce Crow and Leanne Marie Osborn. David now holds 50% of the shares of HWGA Company Ltd which used to be directed by Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow until he recently resigned after being banned as a company director for four years commencing 16 April 2010.

John Malcolm Carr, who co-directed CVC Group Ltd with Steve Crow until he (Steve) was forced to resign, faces eight serious criminal charges in the Auckland District Court on 12 August, brought against him by the Ministry of Economic Development’s Enforcement Unit under the Financial Reporting Act 1993. Hardcore porn promoter John M Carr remains the sole director of CVC Group Ltd and its daughter hardcore porn company Eden Digital Ltd.

David Bruce Crow of Inglewood, director of Buildwise Ltd (In Liq) which was placed in liquidation last year owing hundreds of thousands of dollars to creditors in the Taranaki, is currently the sole director of 435 Devon Ltd which purchased the New Plymouth RSA Clubrooms (NPRSA) for $1.9 million using entirely borrowed money. $1.525 M was left in the building as a second mortgage by the former owner (NPRSA) and the Crow brothers borrowed $375,00 as a first mortgage from PMIT Nominees Ltd. They also borrowed more money with a view to developing the property – plans which have come to nothing.

David Crow currently owns 1,000 shares (10%) of 435 Devon Ltd, his wife Carolyn owns 40% and his brother Steve, a former director of the company at the time the property was purchased from NPRSA, owns 50%. 435 Devon Ltd has never had any equity in the property and has leased out part of the building as a function centre/restaurant since its purchase in 2008. The media is aware that 435 Devon Ltd has defaulted for months on both its mortgages and the New Plymouth District Council is owed about $25,000 in unpaid rates. Other creditors ar owed thousands of dollars. The NPRSA is reputed to be owed over $60,000 of unpaid interest dating back to February this year.

No doubt all these creditors of the Crow brothers will be lining up along Queen Street in Auckland next week to cheer on banned director Steve Crow and his colourful naked ambition. Steve has announced that Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, New Plymouth, his sister and a co-directot with brother David of HWGA Co. Ltd, will be helping match each porn coupon toting bare-breasted women in the parade with a suitable vehicle to mount.

Porn in the family is certainly something worth crowing about when one is financially impotent. The two porn companies Vixen Publications Ltd and Sidefx Ltd that Steve Crow once directed until he was banned as a director appear to be in big trouble. The Registrar of Companies will shortly be striking these companies off the register if shareholders and management fail to find a replacement director for the banned Mr Steve Crow by the 12 August 2010. Crow’s lurid disposal of 12,500 porn DVDs to the general public using a bevvy of bare-breasted babes may be a signal that both companies are dead in a cesspool of liquidated porn.

John M Carr, who holds US citizenship and owns a number of NZ registered companies, has had a financial interest in the importation and promotion of hardcore porn sleaze for many years, working closely with his friend Steve Crow, who until his recent 4-year ban, co-directed CVC Group Ltd with him. CVC Group Ltd, directed by John M. Carr, owns Eden Digital Ltd. Eden Digital Ltd has its registered office at 2/18b Triton Drive, Albany, Auckland 1025 – a property owned by PJ Digital Ltd, a company directed and owned by John Malcolm Carr. Mr Carr gives his own residential address for the latter company as Flat 14 Remuera Mews, 31 Green Lane East, Remuera, Auckland, 1050 (Checketts McKay Trustees Ltd is the trustee of this property). PJ Digital Ltd has its registered office at Unit 13, 33 -35 Apollo Drive, Mairangi Bay, Auckland , New Zealand.

3News Nightline Video “PORN TYCOON STRIPPED BARE”

http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/36411.html

Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow. 

Source: TV3 News – Nightline 19/03/2010

Steve Crow has offered huge amounts of money to entice men and women into acting as models and players in his hardcore porn publications. The New Zealand public has been appalled at the seemingly callous, hard-nosed business approach he takes in trying to financially entice young people, including poverty-stricken university students and pregnant women, into ‘starring’ in his sleazy porn shoots. Ignoring the devastating and detrimental impact records of such filming can play years down the track, once such published material surfaces, on the careers of young people, he marches on oblivious of the negative impact to the public good his material causes. Porn tycoons who indulge in such exploitative ‘work’ have been labelled everything from sex perverts, porn pimps, child pornographers and exploitative #### and more.

However, such criticism and insults serve only to boost the egos of pornographers who see themselves as icons to be admired for valiantly holding up the virtue of ‘freedom of expression’. Some even parade their own wives or girlfriends in public proud to have them fronting their hardcore porn promotions in a puerile attempt to sugar-coat the sleaze porn industry with a veneer of respectability. Touting themselves as credible because they were once school teachers, nuns, district beauty queens, or TV presenters, their antics are an embarrassment to any normal person.

References

Garth Stirrat has resigned from his role as chief executive of the Professional Golf Association of New Zealand.

http://www.3news.co.nz/3Sport/Story/tabid/415/articleID/60924/cat/70/Default.aspx

Golf Boss was a real life swinger. Sunday News 31/08/08

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-news/news/605235

New Zealand Golf Porn Scandal

“Garth Stirrat isn’t your everyday story. Stirrat had served for six years as the CEO of the New Zealand Professional Golf Association (NZPGA), until resigning earlier this year. Within the past couple weeks he started a new job as the head of the New Zealand Hotel Council. Now he’s resigned from that position as well. Why?
Because of some earlier “positions” he held. Using the alias “Steve Parnell,” Stirrat took part in some pornographic photo shoots and was a performer in a pornographic video shot in 2003 (while he was head of the NZPGA).”

http://www.oobgolf.com/content/fore+play/1-1954-New_Zealand_Golf_Porn_Scandal.html

http://golf.about.com/b/2008/09/10/new-zealand-golf-boss-was-a-porn-star.htm