The only difference is that the trustees are the guardians of thousands of children, not just one. Pua urgently asks this Court invoke its equitable powers to immediately remove, on an interim basis, trustees Richard S.H. Wong, Henry H. Peters, Gerard A. Jervis and M. Lokelani Lindsey, before further harm occurs to the beneficiaries and the trust. There is a Significant Risk of Harm Harming others to promote one's personal interest is wrong. Harming children to achieve selfish gain is particularly egregious, especially where the children are beneficiaries of a trust the perpetrators are paid handsomely to protect. This ongoing harm must not be permitted to continue.
Comparable lessons abound.
Consider, for example, the recent and painful controversy involving Reubyne Buentipo Jr., the child left in the care of his abusive mother. In Reubyne's, case, as in this one, the State had notice of prior abuse. The Attorney General's petition seeks to remove the wards from the risk of further immediate harm, which is what Child Protective Services now realizes it should have done for Reubyne. When the question is interim trustee removal based on alleged wrongdoing, the proper consideration is the protection of the trust and the beneficiaries, not trustee rights. Trustee rights are relevant only in the permanent removal determination.