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The
Sunday Star Times
August 10, 2003
Show some courage
Letter to the Editor
by G Mutch, Christchurch
Barry Colman has dispelled the myth that no abuse occurred in terms of the
Christchurch Civic Creche case. Indeed the video transcripts suggest not inconsiderable
harassment of victims by CYFS interviewers
Poor Peter Ellis - guilty of nothing other than his sexuality - became a
repository for a community's collective neurosis and prejudice.
And it is just Ellis' luck to have his case aired during the time of a timid
minister of justice. Phil Goff's self-righteous mantra about the need for new
evidence is pure sophistry because the case has never been based on evidence
but rather the selective echoes and fantasies of impressionable young
children.
New evidence is not only an impossibility in the circumstances, it is a
contradiction in terms. At any rate, it is no substitute for courage.
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