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Drawing on court transcripts, diaries, personal reflections, uniformly glowing character references and painful family recollections, PRESUMPTION OF EVIL is a journey into one man's hell. A model citizen of impeccable character in his late 70s is convicted of 18 nasty sexual and physical abuse offences he is alleged to have committed in his 30s, simply on the say-so of five late middle aged women who were then juvenile delinquent inmates at an institution. Women who complained simultaneously but had never before mentioned any of it to anyone. Because if you are named in the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, you are presumed guilty. Evil. The legal process is just a formality ... That is what happened to Noel Greenaway, in his mid 80s at the time of writing, sentenced (in 2020) to 20 years jail. From being so named to being tried and found guilty by a jury is the process of guilt by accusation which does away with the presumption of innocence and the need to prove allegations beyond reasonable doubt. Child sex abuse is today's crimen exceptum - a crime so exceptional that the established rules of justice need not be applied to it. Sociologists quoted in the book refer to this as a moral crusade - and what that means to society. Urban traces the Greenaway family's nightmare from the phone call that alerted Noel that he would be named - the next day - in that Royal Commission, through the trial and the appeal, to the day he met the 'evil' Noel face to face in a supermax prison.

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