By the conviction that he is innocent until proven guilty and by the mettle of his supporters.

"No one prays for peace more than the Soldier, for it is he who faces the full horror of war."

Thats the problem. UNless as a group we stand up against these sorts of things we will see individuals persecuted.

The Herald ran an interesting piece today on principles wanting more male primary teachers but identified why there were fewer than %18 male teachers at primary level.

I still find it difficult to forgive an education system that convicts an innocent person without investigating or proof let alone a court hearing.

I am referring to Peter Ellis.

 A community in denial is probably  more harmful and almost impossible to breakdown and expose but what hurts is that standing together can be detrimental to a society on a whole because there denial has left our children without an equal amount of Male teachers.

It is not worth any Male who wishes to pursue a career in early childhood education because the equality of the work place is not up held in the same sense as it is for a female.

But as I said I have not forgiven such vindictive behaviours by a majority who have destroyed a Mans life because of there own fears and lack of understanding of homosexuality.

It is a fact and unlike David Bain Peter Ellis is just too average of an innocent person convicted for anyone in the know to give a damn.

Shhhooocking, Verdict.

I'm actually not sure at all of the support or lack of support a Male teacher receives on employment policy terms contract etc.

Experience with my own children attending preschool and primary etc have actually made me more aware of what any teacher is up against the paper work the never ending meetings of policy change's the importance to further study off there own back, the responsibility to there peers there students and most of all the parents. 

I choose to be an active parent in my own children's lives and worked with them to ensure that they were safe & secure my son daughter and youngest have a strong standing within there own right there education is not just about abilities to read write and count it is to also give them an introduction to there peers of all shapes size's and culture's.

I really don't think that society is ready to be serious about every childs well being because parents are such complex ed clients and often place failure on education or outside influence's and fail to look at themselves.

If we were serious Male teacher's would be working without the fear and receiving a salary that match's the seriousness of employment.  

I myself are truly thankful to all the teacher's who nurtured and feed my children's thirst but I beleive it is a two way role Parents have to get more active and attentive outside school hours and teachers need all the positive support they can get for our children are dependant on it.

,the whole country is saying what ever comes to thier heads, and one who is brave enough to egagerate a situation. gets what they want,

 . what they going to do next put louise nichlases life stye of the past on me, and put my life of honest and truth on louise, In 1995. i laid a charge of rape on the perpitrater. the police they told me there wasn,t enough evidance. and closed my files. with out a proper investagation.  4 times ive asked the police to have my files reopen and a proper investagation done.and they still ignoring it. if  louise was known to the perpitrater who raped me at the age of 15, then there a lot more question to be asked on her case.  did the perpitrater in my case.tell her to blame the police so his case would be covered up. the perpitrater in my case was known to the police,

so the wrong thats being done to me and my family over and innocent man being charge i nz courts with out anything said ihis defence verbally.then the police closing myfiles when advised by a councellor to lay this charges,

  then louise goes public that she was raped.and because see atracted news attention she gets paid out, with parts of her story egagerated. and the ones who get there fact right. and tells the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth, rights get ignored,

now the news media is making out to the public that. david bains case was the mis  justice case.. when one run around the public getting half truth about a situation, it could well be as well, but the news reporter should be carry part of the cost, as there facts they mislead the public causing confusion,as same as they did in my case. and then louse  nichlas pops up so they decided to put all of others cases on her.  and when the news reporter all go on tv yelling into the cameras saying what they said, and if a person in the public did this they would say they had to go to an anger management coarse, so why arn,t the tv reporter all told to do an anger management coarse

 In regards to your last 2 post's they reminded me of a lady who became a client of mine she was 85years old she had many stories of her life and how she had wasted 3/4 of it because she failed to see how important and valuable life really is,  she said the turning point for her was that she had a heart attack and after that experience she never looked back,   here she was at 64years old and felt she had been given another chance to see life from a different perspective,  she said that she had never believed that she was deserving of anything good in her life,  and that was what stopped her from living to ther full potential,  so once she mastered her own self worth her life was full of the most loving and wonderfull experience's she never thought possible.  She spent the last 28years a very happy fullfilled life and was so humbled by the share joy that surrouned her own being.

We all need a little help on our way in life your writings express alot of wasted moments that could've brought your own being so much joy,  The rape case involving Louise and police is her own real life experience, the reason there was so much media involved was because of the perpatrators positions within the community.

Your day of being a victim of rape is your own journey and you are not alone when it come's to healing because all rape victims struggle with the aftermath,  being payed out does not heal the process of being raped but when victims have to go to court as Louise did then of coarse she should be payed out because going to court as she did would of cost her own personal savings a packet so what little she receive's will be a well earned contribution.

The biggest most important thing for you is to stop living in denial face yourself and start the process of healing for I can assure you from my own personal experience your world is beautifull and it's such a shame your missing it all.