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The
Christchurch Civic Creche Case |
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Peter Ellis is back in
"wait and see" mode after the recommendations of Parliament's
justice and electoral select committee. After two years, the
select committee has decided a Royal Commission of Inquiry into his
convictions for sexually abusing children in his care is not warranted.
Instead, the committee is recommending that the Attorney-General does not
oppose, or opposes only in principle, a new proposed application by Ellis for
leave to appeal to the Privy Council. Ellis' lawyer Judith
Ablett-Kerr says naturally she is disappointed, but says at least there is
endorsement for Ellis to go to the Privy Council. However she adds that
depends on whether the Attorney General accepts the recommendation made by
the committee. Ellis served two-thirds
of a 10-year jail sentence after being convicted in 1993 of sexually
molesting children at the Christchurch Civic Creche where he worked. Three of his
convictions were quashed when one of the seven preschoolers he was found
guilty of abusing retracted the allegations |
