{"id":49160,"date":"2022-10-07T16:35:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T07:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/new-zealand-court-quashes-peter-ellis-child-sexual-abuse-conviction"},"modified":"2022-10-07T16:35:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T07:35:51","slug":"new-zealand-court-quashes-child-sexual-abuse-conviction-in-landmark-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49160","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand court quashes child sexual abuse conviction in landmark ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case of Peter Ellis marks first time a court in the country has overturned a conviction posthumously<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s supreme court has quashed the convictions of Peter Ellis, a Christchurch creche worker convicted of child sexual abuse in 1993 in a highly controversial case that included allegations of large-scale ritual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the court found a \u201csubstantial miscarriage of justice\u201d had occurred. It is the first time in New Zealand\u2019s history that a conviction has been quashed posthumously \u2013 Ellis died from cancer in late 2019.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/new-zealand-court-quashes-peter-ellis-child-sexual-abuse-conviction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case of Peter Ellis marks first time a court in the country has overturned a conviction posthumouslyNew Zealand\u2019s supreme court has quashed the convictions of Peter Ellis, a Christchurch creche worker convicted of child sexual abuse in 1993 in a highly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49161,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49160\/revisions\/49161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}