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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.
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