Peter Ellis web site - Christchurch crèche case
	ACC Compensation for Sex Abuse - Index
	2004 Index
	Otago Daily Times July 10 2004 ACC Letter to the Editor by Dr Kevin Shannon, City Rise [Abridged] Correspondents Denise Powell (24.6.04) and Suzanne George (2.7.04), replying to my letter, have missed the point. Of course there are genuine claimants, but the bottom line is that there should be no claimants, genuine or otherwise. The propensity for large-scale abuse was so evident that the ACC legislation should never have been enacted. Until recently, a rapist who "slipped a disc" committing the offence could claim on ACC. Why has this come about? At times it appeared that all the misguided "do gooders" and social engineers from around the world had settled in New Zealand. ACC should be terminated.