Who was Peter Ellis, the childcare worker at the centre of the accusations and how did he come to work there?
To set the scene, we meet people with many different connections to what was to become the most notorious child sexual abuse case in this country’s history.
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Meet Hosts Alexander Behse and Ali Jones
A drive for risk-taking treatments, engaging subjects and his eye for talent have made Alexander Behse one of the most innovative, successful and prolific producers of indigenous, factual and feature films in New Zealand today.
Alexander Behse, Host of Conviction: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case Photo: Alexander Behse
His film Sony Pictures film POI-E: The Story of our film to the date sits at #3 off all time at the NZ Box Office; Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web was #1 independent doc in the iTunes charts in the US/Canada/Germany and NZ and picked up around the world for release including by Hulu.
He executive produced Dame Gaylene Preston documentary My Year with Helen, about former Prime Minister Helen Clark; and the SxSW premiered film Stuffed. His latest breakout and viral success was NZ’s first ever HBOmax Original There is no I in Threesome.
He is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy.
Ali Jones. New Zealand Herald photo by Mike Scott. Photo: Mike Scott
Ali has spent the last 35 years in media as a writer and broadcaster, while also working in Public Relations and the local government sector. A Christchurch city councillor from 2013-2015, she was re-elected to the local community board in 2023 and continues to run her business, Red PR and contribute to a number of media organisations as a social commentator.
Ali attended Christchurch Girls’ High School from 1979-1983 when it was located on Armagh Street, across the road from Latimer Square. Some years later, the Girls’ High staffroom would become the Civic Creche, and the place where she and her friends ate lunch, would become the place the creche children played.
Ali started as an Assistant Floor Manager at TVNZ, crossing to the other side of the camera a couple of years later, at age 21, becoming the youngest person to host a TV news programme in New Zealand. While presenting The Mainland Touch (regional TV news) and News Review (news for the deaf), Ali also co-hosted breakfast radio at C93FM, reading news and being a “rock chick”, winning the award for “Best Young Presenter” in New Zealand in 1991.
Ali describes herself as a “news junkie” with a sense of social justice, and continues to advocate for insurance claimants, especially those who are still struggling to get their lives back after the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes.
