The parents of the complainants in the Civic Creche case say they're "shocked and saddened" by the quashing of Peter Ellis' child sex abuse convictions.
The parents, who don't want to be named, say their children suffered "terrible abuse" nearly three decades ago and still "live with the effect of that abuse today".
It comes after the Supreme Court quashed Ellis' convictions for child sex abuse, labelling his case a "substantial miscarriage of justice".
But the parents of the children say the Supreme Court has "favoured a convicted criminal, and ignored the victims" in quashing Ellis' convictions.
"They have not been allowed a voice in this process. Some are too afraid and traumatised still, but we as parents want to speak out and say loud and clear once again. We hear and we believe you."
Their children, who were aged five or six years old at the time, were asked to undertake a "huge" task.
"Interviews with people they had never met, and had no reason to trust, was always going to be a huge ask of both the children and their families."
They added the children who went to court during the 1993 trial have carried a "huge burden all these years".
"They know that what [they] told the court was backed up by the other abused children who for a variety of reasons were unable to testify."
They said the Civic Creche case received an "unprecedented level of legal scrutiny over the years".
"The judge and jury in the original trial believed the children, two appeals to overturn those convictions were lost and a Commission of Inquiry upheld the verdicts."
The parents said the trauma of not being believed over the years has taken its "toll" on their children, now adults.
"The court of public opinion is often ill-informed and the facts are lost."
The parents added their children deserved to be safe in the care of adults but "they were not".
"The Civic Creche children, now adults, know what happened to them."
