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Seeking justice for Peter Ellis and other victims, both
past and present, of the New Zealand sex abuse moral panic Press Release 23 June 2006 Frivolous police prosecutions must stop Judge Bruce Davidson
should be congratulated for abruptly ending a trial before there was any
chance for a miscarriage of justice. A Wellington teacher had been
unnecessarily put through the pain and suffering of sex abuse charges that
should never have been brought. While sex abuse is a
very serious crime and should be treated seriously, this is no excuse for the
police to make charges frivolously. The police should be well aware of
the harm that they are capable of perpetrating when they charge innocent men
with the serious crime of child molestation. The police have no
excuse for such incompetence. It is over a decade since the Christchurch
Creche case, and in that time most professionals involved in sex abuse
allegations have become far more aware of problems of false memory, and the
many other reasons why a very large proportion of sex abuse allegations are
actually false. |
