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NZ
Herald
September 26, 2003
Ellis commission needed
Letter to the Editor
by Alan Wilkinson, Russell
Unfortunately,
Peter Ellis needs aggressive defence against the emotional blackmail
exercised by some "child abuse" fanatics.
It should be unnecessary, but is not to re-emphasise that both genuine
victims of abuse and victims of false accusations will benefit from improving
reliability and public confidence in the way these cases are handled and by
distinguishing the competent and rational from incompetent and/or emotionally
entangled professionals.
Apart from the above reason, and from the necessity to right the wrong done
to Peter Ellis, there is another important reason to have a royal commission
investigation. The Herald has been
highlighting the damage that the Peter Ellis case has done to the primary and
preschool teaching professions. Men are too afraid of being falsely accused
of sexual abuse to enter these professions. Education of boys, in particular,
is reaching a crisis in underachievement caused by the unbalanced
feminisation of schools.
Moreover, men reject the excessive politically correct official guidelines
regarding protecting themselves against possible accusations of abuse as
being unnatural, unrealistic in practice and destructive of their
relationships with children.
It is hard to conceive a more important issue of community concern. The
establishment of such a commission must not be blocked by selfish elements of
professions who do not like to be challenged in public.
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