Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse

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The ABC is reporting ob the investigation into the widespread child sex abuse in Victorian public schools.

‘The truth needs to be told’​

By Russell Jackson

ABC Investigations
Published 27 Feb 2024, 6:00am
One survivor has called it “mind-boggling” and “beyond belief”.

A lawyer for victims says it was “calculated” and “covered up, just like in the Catholic Church”.

And on Monday, a small but important step was taken in addressing the Victorian Department of Education’s historical child sexual abuse crisis.

After six months examining decades of crimes against students in state-run schools, the government-initiated inquiry leading the investigation delivered its findings to the Victorian governor.

The government has not said when it will make the report and its response public.

In the early 70s, four paedophiles taught together at this school. Survivors say it was a sign of an insidious crisis

After six months examining decades of crimes against students in state-run schools, the government-initiated inquiry leading the investigation delivers its findings to the Victorian governor.

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About time all this stuff came out.

Although I saw no evidence of it when I was at school , I wonder how widespread it is. Is it just a few egregious cases, or widespread in the school system?

Hopefully the inquiry will find out.

 

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About time all this stuff came out.

Although I saw no evidence of it when I was at school , I wonder how widespread it is. Is it just a few egregious cases, or widespread in the school system?

Hopefully the inquiry will find out.

The inquiry has been held and the findings are in. The ABC report goes over what they found out. Ugly stuff.
It's quite possible there are still many people who havn't spoken up

 

[basilio]

The ABC has been busy. Clearly the earlier stories have resulted in more disgraceful activitie being uncovered.

Victorian Education Department refused to sack sexually abusive teacher at Macleod High School, memoir alleges​

ABC Investigations
/ By Russell Jackson
Posted 6h ago6 hours ago, updated 4h ago4 hours ago

Peter Gerrard Jackman in 1968, when he taught at Camberwell High School in Melbourne.(ABC News: Alex Lim / Supplied)

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• In short: Peter Gerrard Jackman was accused of sexually abusing at least 10 girls at a school in Melbourne's north in 1969 and 1970, according to a former principal's unpublished memoir.
• Jackman resigned and later carried on his teaching career in Queensland.
• What's next? A woman who alleges she was sexually abused by Jackman has launched legal action against the Victorian government.

The Victorian Education Department sent unqualified teachers into classrooms in the 1960s and then failed to sack them following reports they were sexually abusing their students, according to recently discovered documents.

In an unpublished memoir obtained by ABC Investigations, former Macleod High School principal Athol Jones claimed that the Victorian Education Department appointed "morally reprehensible" trainee teachers to the school in the late 1960s and that a senior department executive failed to terminate the employment of one when Jones passed on complaints that the teacher was sexually abusing female students.

'An educated man who preyed on his students': Woman sues Victorian government over alleged abuse by high school teacher

The Victorian Education Department sent unqualified teachers into classrooms in the 1960s and then failed to sack them following reports they were sexually abusing their students, according to recently discovered documents.

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The inquiry has been held and the findings are in. The ABC report goes over what they found out. Ugly stuff.
It's quite possible there are still many people who havn't spoken up

The report hasn't been released yet so the ABC is only speculating on the results.

 

[basilio]

The report hasn't been released so the ABC is only speculating on the results.

Your right. I didn't express it properly.

The ABC has done much of the legwork with the initial investigations. They are reporting on what they knew already. That is very unlikely to change.

The official government inquiry would have built on those investigations and, who knows ?, made some recommendations. We will have to wait for the release of their findings.

 

[basilio]

Wow Knobby ! So you were part of the closed court that heard the complainants testimony over a number of days ? Really ? And you believe that this million dollar defense counsel of Cardinal Pell was unable to nail all the obvious lies in the various testimonies. Big call.

As far as the obvious strangeness of the incident which makes the crime impossible? Thirty years ago something like this would have been unthinkable. But then 10's then 100's of cases of child sexual abuse by religious came before the courts. And don't kid yourself. The capacity of these people to openly assault children in the presence of family was also unbelievable. After these experiences courts have realised what was unthinkable in fact happened time after time.

As far as the dead persons mothers comments. Yes she did ask. Yes he did say "nothing happened" .
But the facts are that thousands of people who were sexually abused denied it while they were trying to cope with the trauma it provoked. There was an article on their situation which I posted.

Perhaps one could have it both ways. If someone denies having been abused they are telling the truth. But if they say they have been abused it is a monstrous lie and they are clearly lying. But we wouldn't accept that surely ?

By the way did you read my post 279 ? In many ways it addresses your comments but I'll post some particular ones in full

On top of this straw-clutching is a layer of active disinformation, lying and irrelevance. It is not true that priests rarely abuse their victims without grooming. It may be true that Pell is a “lively conversationalist” but he is not on trial for being a bad raconteur. As for the man of high office, the man that I knew, the man who is so privately charitable, the man who would never … These words already appear in tens of thousands of case files. How many more are needed?

Those files also find priests who raped children not just in the sacristy but at the altar. They molested children not only in public but in front of their own family members, sometimes in the same moving car. They raped them while wearing vestments, not only orally but anally as well. That same untieable cincture has been used to bind the hands of a 16-year-old boy, who was then raped so viciously he needed corrective surgery. Opportunistic priests have acted in windows of time not just after mass, but on school excursions in public toilets. They have snuck into a hospital to rape a seven-year-old girl. They have molested every daughter in a five-daughter family.

So what about Pell’s case is implausible, or even unusual? For anyone willing to look, it is almost humdrum, once compared to the vast, prolific compendium of international crime his institution has compiled.

Unthinkable? What his defenders really mean is that they cannot bear thinking about it.
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...rge-pells-defenders-just-displays-their-power

Cardinal Pell back in the news again.
The compensation scheme that investigates allegations of child sexual abuse and awards damages to victims of abuse has supported the claims of 2 men abused by Cardinal Pell.

It's a detailed story and bears reading. Also includes further information about alleged abuses by Cardinal Pell.

Cardinal George Pell abused two boys in Ballarat, compensation scheme decides​

• By Louise Milligan
• By Charlotte King
• Topic:Child Abuse

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Cardinal George Pell at the Vatican in 2017. (Reuters: Remo Casilli)

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Two men were compensated after the National Redress Scheme accepted they were abused as boys by the late Cardinal George Pell in Ballarat in the 1970s.
One man who the scheme decided was groped by Pell was compensated just five weeks before the cardinal’s death.

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Two men have been granted compensation by the federal government's National Redress Scheme for abuse by the late Cardinal George Pell, including one whom the scheme accepted was raped by Pell when the Cardinal was a young priest in Ballarat in the 1970s.

WARNING: Readers might find some of the details in this story distressing.
The boys were eight and nine and lived in Ballarat when the abuse they describe in their claims took place, but do not know each other and went to different schools in the Victorian goldfields town where Pell was a priest and the diocese's episcopal vicar for education.

George Pell raped, groped two boys in Ballarat, compensation scheme decides

Two men were compensated after the National Redress Scheme accepted they were abused as boys by the late Cardinal George Pell in Ballarat in the 1970s.

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