The Christchurch Civic Creche Case

News Reports Index

2003  Aug 1-15



The Sunday Star Times
August 10, 2003

No crime
Letter to the Editor
by Jerome O'Malley,  Blenheim


It is increasingly apparent that the "new" evidence required by Phil Goff to set up a commission of inquiry is the testimony that was never presented to a jury.

The children involved were pressured until they said what they thought the interrogators wanted to hear. As well as Ellis, the victims of this sorry saga are the children who are going through life in the mistaken belief they were victims of abuse.