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Sunday Star Times
August 24
Denial of justice a money matter
Letter to
the Editor
by Ron Jones (Auckland)
There are those that think the Ellis case (August
17) affected only Peter. What this unjust conviction did was make it
impossible for any male to consider working in any environment where there
are young children, hence the continued lack of teachers in our primary and intermediate
schools.
Male parents are accused of sexual attacks on their children based only on
the word of an accuser with little to nil evidence.
We live in an age where every wrong of the past is dragged out into the open,
millions of dollars change hands to supposedly correct these wrongs, yet this
newspaper weekly exposes modern wrongs that the government ignores.
For example, Minister Goff (I omit Justice) requires Ellis to bring forth new
evidence. Justice is supposed to convict a person beyond reasonable doubt. It
is the crown's job to do this. It is clear in the interviews that there were
alleged to be secret doors and rooms, that Ellis, his friends, his mother and
the female staff were all supposed to be involved.
Now of course we can assume the police brought to court (as happened in
another case) the trap door, photos of the secret room, the hooks and the
various items used to push up the children's private places. Was blood
stained clothing produced? A lot of kicking and smacking is alleged to have
taken place, bruises must have been all over these little bodies. Did the
police produce such photographic evidence? I have not read of any.
Perhaps Goff wants Ellis to prove it was not his DNA or fingerprints on the
trap door, or prove beyond a reasonable doubt he did not have a secret room.
Common sense and police searches prove the trap door, the secret room, the
instruments to poke private parts did not exist. Without such evidence, there
is no case.
Goff knows if this case is discredited, the government will have to pay out
and that would never do. Only selected folk get compensation - the parents of
the children, for example.
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