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Child sex
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The wisdom of
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Sandra Coney's letter (Jul
2) reflects no more than her petrified opinion of the Ellis case and her
belief in the methods by which the stories of abuse were derived. Two simple facts
underlying this case are that no physical, material or medical evidence of
abuse was produced at trial, and the prosecution relied on interpretations of
the children's stories by so-called "experts". How Ms Hood
referenced her book "A City Possessed" is irrelevant. The Ellis case is a
copycat version of many other similar cases overseas, in which the evidence
was produced by "expert interpretation" in a climate of hysteria
and moral panic, but in which the convicted perpetrators have since been
acquitted by impartial, reasoned examination in appellate courts. If Ms Coney
can provide testable evidence to support her contention that the children
were in fact abused, we would all like to see it so this matter can be put to
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