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The
Christchurch Civic Creche Case |
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Adjusting to life on
the outside will be difficult for soon-to-be released Paparua Prison inmate
Peter Ellis, his mother says. Ellis, 41, convicted in 1993 on 16 charges of
abusing children in his care at Christchurch Civic Childcare Centre, will be
released on Wednesday. He has served 6<<1/2>> years of a 10-year
jail sentence. Ellis has protested his innocence and doubts have emerged
about the way allegations against him arose, the way young children were
interviewed, and the impartiality of his trial jury. As he began his last
weekend in prison his mother Lesley Ellis said her son's virtual house arrest
before his trial in April 1993 meant he had spent closer to eight years
divorced from the real world. |
