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The Christchurch Civic
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The Press Further to Gaye Davidson's letter
(Dec 18), it is a good thing that Harlene Hayne, of Otago University, has
done a new analysis of the details of the interviewing in the Civic Childcare
Centre case, and done it from this country, as she will be all the harder to
ignore. Professor Hayne's approach seems
to be along the lines of Michael Lamb's, which took the interview questions
and classified them according to type and propensity to produce reliable
answers from children. However, Hayne extended this by analysing the
questions used in the Kelly Michaels case (where, after it was discovered
that her young accusers were interviewed in such a way as to make their
claims unreliable, the convictions were overturned), and comparing the two
sets. Hayne's research found that the Civic interviews were effectively as
unsafe as those in the Kelly Michaels case. Her conclusions stand in direct
contradiction to those in Eichelbaum's report. |
