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The Press
February 19 2002
Peter Ellis case
Letter to the Editor
by G Mutch, Ilam, Feb 9
N. Gillespie (February 8) should not single
out Karen Zelas for her lack of response to Lynley Hood's book, A City
Possessed.
Since the publication of Ms Hood's book, silence has reigned over virtually everyone
involved in the injustice to which it refers. And who can blame them? It must
be enormously embarrassing, not only that Peter Ellis suffered such needless
injustice but that thinking adults actually embraced the absurd notions
surrounding it.
Although criticism has been levelled at parents of the children caught up in
this absurdity, many, the time, no
doubt genuinely believed that their children may have suffered abuse. It will
be the most galling of ironies if the only good Ms Hood's search for justice
does is to confirm for these parents what they must already have come to
realise.
Indeed, it is also ironic reflecting on the righteous principles that once
inspired these parents.
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