Soooooo, now Peter Ellis has been found to have suffered a disgusting miscarriage of justice, can we discuss how Christchurch believed there was a satanic child sacrificing cult operating in the 1990s?
One of the parts that is conveniently swept under the carpet in all of this madness, is how on Earth a city in the 1990s came to believe there was a satanic child sacrificing cult operating at the Creche.
Before the allegations started swirling around Peter Ellis, there was a visit to Christchurch by International Speakers claiming that satanic cults were molesting and killing children in an attempt to freak out society and cause it to collapse.
It was after the International speakers appeared in Christchurch that people started making accusations towards Peter Ellis that he was involved in these satanic child molestation cults.
Add into these allegations Police Detectives investigating the cases and having inappropriate sexual relationships with some of the solo mothers claiming their children had been sexually molested by Peter Ellis as part of a satanic cult; Add into these allegations the fact ACC paid out tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who claimed to be a ‘victim’; Add in the damaged interviewing techniques that led children to give answers the Police wanted and you have all the ingredients for a feral Lynch mob that had lost any connection to reality.
Some of the ‘victims’ claimed Peter had murdered children and buried them at the creche. No murdered children were ever found and no children missing had ever been connected to the creche.
Now, before we mock the people of Christchurch for believing a Satanic child murdering and sexually molesting cult was operating out of their Creche, just consider how these allegations in the current woke environment would explode now?
Can we honestly say in the new woke world of B-E-L-I-E-V-E all victims that if these allegations surfaced today that we wouldn’t all climb on the exact same feral Lynch mob train?
If a mother complained on twitter that a heteronormative white cis male had molested their child (while murdering other children), he would already have been judged guilty and his house burned down and his job cancelled.
I don’t think we can be smug in the current woke environment that the exact same mob fear based response to Peter Ellis wouldn’t occur right now on Social Media.
It may be 30 years since this madness occurred, and I don’t think we are any better equipped to be responsible in response.
I don’t think we should B-E-L-I-E-V-E all victims, I think we should take every allegation seriously and professionally investigate them.
But when you B-E-L-I-E-V-E all victims you’ve crossed over from a rational examination of the evidence to a faith based cult.
There’s an irony in that somewhere.
Peter Ellis could only find justice in death – this is NZ.
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Thanks are owed to Martyn for keeping the Peter Ellis tragedy in our minds.
The failure of the Courts of Appeals, and Ministers, to ever overturn an obviously unsafe conviction is what causes the most anger for me. The appeals system is what safeguards all of us against mob hysteria via the lower Courts being used against unpopular individuals.
The fact ACC was said to have paid many dollars to each complainant may have been a factor . There was definately a hysteria around at the time .I took my 5 year old son to a camping ground in Chch for an adventure.It was spoiled by the camp manager coming to the hut and asking for proof he was my son and his mother knew where he was .. I knew of some male kindergarten teachers that decided to change profession due to fear . Most people I knew were amazed when the guilty verdict as the claims were so farcical. Peter’s crime was being gay .
Acc paid out $10,000 a time and no police complaint had to be laid.
Acc paid out millions in the 1990’s during this period
Yes the only reason Peter was found guilty was because he was gay.
Could be worse. People could be screaming about a Climate Crisis.
Or hiding inside with masks on their faces while they beg for the next booster shot.
Just how many generations of inbreeding are there in your family?
Give some thought toward ceasing to be a wanker, Tom.
Yes if it happened today the result would be the same.
L Hood’s work “A City Possessed” is the most detailed narrative of the events surrounding the case 1991-2001.
The issues of systemic bias alluded to by Martyn, contamination and reliability are also canvassed in a shorter paper by Harper, that I contributed to, circa 2005 after the Eichelbaum Inquiry.
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.693.7774&rep=rep1&type=pdf
The amount of work that has gone into rectifying this travesty was truly, truly massive; by Ellis’ legal teams, psychologists and scientists, many fine writers and journalists, families and friends of those caught up in the storm, members of the public writing to editors etc. Most will never be acknowledged, I salute them.
Have police actually improved their investigative techniques since then? Perhaps they’ve gotten worse?
an other example of kiwis jumping on a passing band wagon to appear all grown up….pitiful really when you consider the shithouse quality of the theories involved…..but y’know distant ancestor of q-anon….when you ask where conspiracy nuts come from, look no further.
Personally, I think the whole music back masking stupidity was the match that started this particular fire.
The lunatic right wing christians ( apologies to all traditional and moderate christians), went after free speech by claiming.. well that Satan records backwards? Dafuq? Seriously? Then they went after the artists directly. That didn’t work either, but they did succeed getting the parental advisory stickers.
Then they moved on to education. Satan in nurseries. Trying to claim that intelligent design and literal interpretations of the bible are legitimate theories that should be school curriculum.
So they have gone after our entertainment, then our education, what next? Health?