Child sex abuse hysteria and the Ellis case
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	Sunday Star Times August 4 2002 Creche case New Zealand's shame Letter by Gordon Waugh, Auckland Frank Haden didn't go nearly far enough (July 28) - Christchurch's shame over the creche case is New Zealand's shame. Worse, it is parliament's shame. The evidence in Lynley Hood's book is compelling, but politicians seemingly lack the moral courage to rectify this dreadful miscarriage of justice. Instead of its deathly silence, the counselling "profession" must find the honesty to publicly debate the causes. It is self-evident that without credible, external corroboration, counsellors cannot pretend to know whether sexual abuse occurred, or interpret what a child thinks or knows. Using absurd assumptions, ACC perpetuates those unscientific and unacceptable counselling techniques. Without right, privilege or authority, ACC and counsellors have combined to usurp the function of the criminal court to determine who may have committed sexual abuse. Their use of flawed belief systems has ruined tens of thousands of families. We need to return the issues surrounding sexual abuse to a proper scientific and judicial footing and attempt to repair the enormous damage done by poorly trained, unprofessional, unregistered, unlicensed, unaccountable "counsellors".