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C'mon - let's ALL give Peter Ellis
a fair go While the four women charged with
him in the notorious 1993 Christchurch Civic Creche
case walked free, Ellis has been pilloried and imprisoned on the most
questionable of evidence. Society wanted, even demanded, a
scapegoat--AND Ellis was it. He copped 10 years' imprisonment
on conviction of 16 trumped-up charges of molesting children. But more and more
people--including this newspaper--are of the opinion Ellis has been the fall
guy --but FEW have had the guts to say so The media, society's so-called watchdogs,
has largely sat back because of an old adage that says "You don't run a
campaign unless it's going to be popular". It was "popular" in the
70s to campaign for the release of Arthur Allan Thomas. It's NOT popular in
the 90s to question or prosecute the evidence of children--and that's largely
why Ellis has been left out in the cold. Our sister paper, The Sunday Star
Times, despite criticisms, bravely and successfully followed the David
Dougherty case through to a scientific conclusion which proved "beyond
all reasonable doubt" stains in a little girl's underwear did not come
from his body. But when it came to mass public
acclaim for taking such a gritty stance--the silence was deafening. If Ellis is guilty of anything
it's daring to be a male in a world dominated by women who had the audacity
to presume it was natural to show uncompromising affection for those in his
care. And if that's a crime--then Ellis
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