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It is pleasing that the NZ Police
at a recent media launch released 18 balloons in memory of 18 children who
have died from child abuse since 2002. All child abuse, and especially
such violent child abuse, horrifies the whole community. Finding solutions to
the type of abuse that these children died from would be a fitting tribute to
their memory, peterellis.org.nz spokesperson Nancy Sutherland says. What is however alarming and even
sickening is that associated with the launch such violent abuse was used as
an excuse by sex abuse zealots to promote questionable sex abuse programmes
for pre-school children. Such programmes have no scientific validity and
simply fuel hysteria about questions around sexual abuse. Instead of
'empowering' kids, the programmes fill their heads with grisly nightmares
because of the over-zealous imaginations and fears of the so-called sex abuse
educators. Alison Maloney, from ACC, makes
claims of horrendous rates of sexual abuse, presumably to help justify the
programmes. But ACC does not claim to have accurate statistics of such sex
abuse. Claims to the ACC of sex abuse do not have to be verified and there is
nobody in ACC concerned about what percentage of those claims may be
completely fraudulent. Freda Briggs appears to be the
main proponent of the proposed pre-school schemes. She is promoted as a child
abuse "expert". She has however published no
research into the forensic interviewing of child abuse victims, and is still
willing to promote the direct questioning of young children, despite current
best practice. She is an extremist, who recently showed her beliefs by
endorsing an Australian publication about "ritual abuse and
torture" in Australia. She has also recently had
complaints lodged against her to the University of South Australia associated
with possible irregularities in her research, ethics and professionalism. The NZ Police should not let child
deaths and other child abuse be used for other purposes by the likes of Freda
Briggs. Child abuse is a problem, but the memory of the 18 dead will not be
honoured by repeating mistakes similar to those that led to the wrongful
imprisonment of Peter Ellis.
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