The Christchurch Civic Creche Case

News Reports

2004



One News
September 7 2004

Radio New Zealand fined

Radio New Zealand has been ordered to pay a fine of $5,000, as well as publish and broadcast an apology to former Christchurch Civic Creche worker Peter Ellis, following a Broadcasting Standards Authority decision. 

The BSA found the Nine to Noon programme breached standards of fairness and balance, in broadcasting an interview in August last year with an unidentified man who claimed to have been abused by Ellis. 

The allegations were not part of the controversial case which saw Ellis convicted of sexual offences against children at the creche in 1993.