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Proof: Teacher used false cancer fears to touch girl's breasts

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T05:10:20Z","headline":"Teacher used false cancer fears to touch girl's breasts","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nzherald","url":"https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/northland-teacher-david-cowan-jailed-for-indecent-acts-against-three-girls/GBFVEIHASFGMBBGK4PQ6SDTDLU/","v":1}

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SHA-256

56059b2b3617197e41b904fc1dd592efa319e8ee9d0ae96615024f56988b8ac3

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970297, mined 2026-10-07 05:41 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 05:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 05:14 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-56059b2b3617.json prints 56059b2b3617197e41b904fc1dd592efa319e8ee9d0ae96615024f56988b8ac3. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-56059b2b3617.json and headline-56059b2b3617.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-56059b2b3617.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 2 min after it was first seen.