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http://poneke.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/breaking-news-in-civic-case-at-noon-today/ This blog is foremost a work of
journalism and that includes breaking news. A breaking news story on the
Christchurch Civic Creche case will be posted here at noon today. The story
relates to a presentation at the Innocence Project conference in Wellington
on Saturday. The conference and project are discussed in the article immediately
below. New research by the Otago
University psychology department head, Professor Harlene Hayne, reveals that
the interviews of Civic children conducted by Social Welfare specialist
service interviewers in the lead-up to the 1993 trial of Peter Ellis were far
worse than those of children in what even Sir Thomas Eichelbaum accepted was
the worst American miscarriage of justice daycare abuse case. Professor Hayne’s research
explodes the fundamental conclusion of Sir Thomas’s 2001 ministerial inquiry
into the Ellis case, that the Civic interviews were “best practice” and
better than those in the completely discredited, similar 1988 Kelly Michaels
“Wee Care” prosecution in Maplewood, New Jersey. |
