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With the imminent release of the court of appeal
findings in the Peter Ellis appeal, his mother Lesley Ellis is sending a
letter to the Minister of Justice, Tony Ryall and a copy to all other members
seeking a Royal Commission of Enquiry. She is absolutely right, a Royal Commission of
Enquiry is able to open up avenues of enquiry much wider than the matters
that are the subject of appeal. As a great number of right thinking New
Zealanders now realise there was a low spot in the enforcement of law and the
administration of justice in this country during the early nineties. At that time an hysteria based on sexual
abuse of children coincided with an hysteria of ritual abuse passed through As people look back on our history they will
marvel at how normally sane organisations such as the police and the courts
could have been caught up in what will be seen plainly as a tragic
aberration. Social welfare and more
particularly its sexual abuse units, at the time had been captured for some
while by sexual abuse zealots and so there will be no real sense of surprise
there. Likewise with ACC. There was that period when they handed out
lump sum payment to alleged sexual abuse victims on the flimsiest of
evidence. I understand that some 60
payments of $10,000 were made to the Ellis victims, many of whom have since recanted. It will be interesting to see how many
refunds of tax payers money there were from recanters. Crack pot psychologists and counsellors peddling
the since debunked idea of regressive memory recollection of sexual abuse in
childhood, while babies, and for all we know in past lives, had a brief reign
at that time, before New Zealand came to its senses. The shame of it is that it had all happened
before, with identical scenarios, in There are a lot of questions that remain
unanswered in this whole sorry saga and a Royal Commission of Enquiry is the
correct vehicle to reveal the truth. Mrs Lesley Ellis, herself, was the subject of
incredible allegations, all from the realm of high fiction. As Peter Ellis's mother she had to put up
with that nonsense as well the torment of having an innocent son imprisoned. When I first became involved in this matter some
two years ago and started visiting Peter Ellis to hear his version first
hand, a stated publicly that I hope that Peter Ellis is richly compensated
for his seven years in Prison. There
is a theory that the going rate for false imprisonment should be $1000.00 a
day. That would be a good starting
point for this abomination in our legal history. I am certain that all MPs will receive Mrs Ellis
and her letter well. This is not a
matter that one should make political capital out of and it would be disappointing
if any politicians should use it for that purpose. |
