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A failure by the Ministry of Education to report the extended absence of two children from school meant their disappearances went unnoticed for years and only ended when their bodies were found in suitcases.
Ministry documents released to RNZ under the Official Information Act show Yuna and Minu Jo's absences took years to be referred to the Attendance Service, rather than months.
The ministry has commissioned an external review to discover how the failure happened and to tighten procedures to ensure the failures do not happen again.
The children, aged eight and six respectively, attended a local primary school in Auckland before they were murdered by their mother Hakyung Lee in 2018.
But it was four years before th
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