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Newsgroups: soc.culture.new-zealandJanuary 30 1998 Subject: peter ellis by James H Oxnam ([email protected])
I have read the book and I have some comments to make. I am not
going outside the book, here The
mother was told not to put ideas into her child's head. For example: "Don't ask
your child any leading questions", they said. "Do not put ideas
into the child's head, but wait for your child to make comments about
anything at the creche. Then reply with an open-ended question". [29] So what does she do? "When Alec
and I began talking things over when we got home, we decided that on the following day we
would tell Tommy about the meeting and then ask him some questions."
[29] "Why did I
do that? The way we worked with Tommy, was that if there was a problem we
would ask him a direct question. I asked him a direct question which was
"Did Peter Ellis touch his penis or bottom?" [29] A closed ended question, which at the same time put ideas in
Tommy's head that Peter could have touched him. She doesn't stop with no,
however, she would grill her child once a week: "I wanted
to know more about his relationship with Peter, and so about once a week I
would introduce the subject." [31]
In May 1992 my
oldest son George was reading Tommy a story in bed. ... Tommy talked of abuse
that Peter had performed on him and said "he smacked my bottom really,
really hard. I couldn't hear the smack, but it really hurt." George said,
"that was very, very wrong of Peter to do that, and you are very good to
tell me about what Peter did to you". [32] In other words, this mother had another one of her sons
interrogating Tommy. It should come as
no surprise that this poor kid came to believe that he had been abused. It
seems that he was asked about the so-called 'abuse' 24 hours a day - in bed
for heck's sake! Which is the sort of thing that the SS would do in This book makes me certain that Peter Ellis could not be
guiltily. Yours, James Oxnam |
