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The
Dominion Post
September 16, 2003
Distorted testimony
Letter to the Editor
by H W Mulgan (Lower Hutt)
Like Chris
Trotter, I was dismayed by the fact that Nine-to-Noon host Linda Clark on
National Radio conducted a sympathetic interview with "Nathan" about
sexual abuse at the Christchurch creche by a man he positively identified as
Peter Ellis, and then not, as far as I heard, acknowledge that it was
established that Ellis was not employed at the creche at the time
"Nathan" attended.
The only good I see coming from Clark's
interview with "Nathan" is that it provides a powerful
demonstration of the fact that apparently sincere young adults can and do
provide distorted testimony about childhood events.
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