The Southland Times
November 23 2007

Front page
Letter to the Editor
by Jennie South, Invercargill

What an unbelievable act of journalistic selfishness and thoughtlessness to put accused teacher Paul Connor on the front page of the Times yesterday.

As parents of the New River School community, we have gone to some length to protect our kids from this information. And here it is, in the most prominent place on the front page.

Classes would have been looking at the newspaper in the morning in current events.

You owe our children an apology.

Surely an inside page would have been far more appropriate.

And remember, Mr Connor is still innocent until he is proved guilty.