Political
leverage and a high-powered lawyer -- not police ineptitude -- were
the key factors that allowed disgraced former Saint John Police Officer
Ken Estabrooks to continue his abuses against children for so
long....that's the theory being put forward by blogger and amateur
historian Ron Jack.
Jack
tells Tide News he's done some digging into council minutes and other
documents....and found the council of the day was intimidated by
Estabrooks and his lawyer Rodman E. Logan.
He says know Mr.
Estabrooks knew what he was doing saying he brought a gun to a knife
fight and he was intimidating city council.
Jack says pinning all
the blame for the continuation of Estabrook's abuses on then-police
chief Eric Ferguson overly simplifies the complex political game
Estabrooks was playing.