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Without prejudice?

By Steven | January 21, 2011

Isn’t much of the coverage of the Auckland child abuse case based on the premise that crimes have been committed, and implicitly, that they were by the parents (and another family member)? That includes some of the statements from the government, as where Social Development Minister Paula Bennett is reported as saying that it was evident from the letter from the child’s mother that she was “actually hiding what was going on”.

How exactly are these defendants to expect a fair trial?

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