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Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse

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Came across an amazing "comedy" story on Iview last night.
The abuse of children in foster care is another cancer in our community. This guy has the experience to make a thoughtful response.

Corey White's Roadmap To Paradise
Series 1 Ep 5 Foster Care
COMEDY
Corey White has experienced the absolute worst of the foster care system, an issue which he feels gets too little attention. He attempts to figure out how it got so staggeringly bad and offers a controversial solution.
https://iview.abc.net.au/programs/corey-whites-roadmap-to-paradise/IR1701V005S00

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On a similar theme a court case has just finished on the treatment of children under care in a child care hostel.
The horrors of the Warminda hostel and the children who were never heard. Until now
By [URL='http://www.abc.net.au/news/joanna-menagh/4421090']Joanna Menagh and Briana Shepherd
Updated 16 minutes ago

Photo: Martin Cooper's victims were all wards of the state living at the hostel. (Supplied)
Related Story: 'Hostel parent' intimidated, threatened, sexually abused children in state care
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"You're not wanted. You're a welfare kid. No-one will believe you."

These were the words spoken to silence young children by "hostel parent" Martin Cooper, who was supposed to care for the boys and girls at Warminda hostel in East Victoria Park in inner Perth but instead subjected them to horrendous physical and sexual abuse.

Now 40 years on, those eight children — now adults aged in their 50s — have finally been believed.

Cooper is facing a lengthy jail term after being found guilty by a Perth jury of 30 sex crimes.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-31/warminda-hostel-abused-children-told-no-one-would-believe-them/9807480
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Big day in parliament today with the National Child abuse apology. Seems to have been a very powerful event for the the politicans and the people and families who had lived through the abuse and then the ongoing denials.

The national child abuse apology shows that institutions can heal, as well as harm
Julia Gillard was the victims’ champion while Scott Morrison articulated survivors’ betrayal and frustration
Katharine Murphy

The survivors who came to Canberra for the apology had been betrayed by institutions, yet they journeyed to the national parliament, an institution seemingly determined to drive the Australian people to despair, to seek a measure of healing.

With victims of institutional sexual abuse massing in their hundreds in Canberra on Monday – intent on taking possession of their house, its halls and its chambers, the pain etched on their faces and in their bodies – the Australian parliament did not have an option to fail.

The only option for the people’s representatives was to rise to the occasion, and deliver. So on Monday, politicians gathered with solemnity and purpose, turning their collective sights away from the B-grade intrigues of the palace, turning their eyes to the survivors who wept in the chambers, on the forecourt, in the corridors, to the people who bowed their heads to avoid meeting the eyes of others, or the terrible punishment of the prying cameras.

At 11am, the Australian parliament assembled and said sorry to the brave souls who had been betrayed by the men of God, by people in power, by people with a duty of care to protect the innocents.

It said sorry to the people who had every reason to break, but refused to be broken.

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ws-that-institutions-can-heal-as-well-as-harm
 
I had heard about the suppression order of this court case and can understand why it was done.
This is serious xhit
 
I think it's advisable to tread very carefully here. There is a suppression order in place and although ASF is not traditional media, we are certainly part of the media landscape. So please, let's not have any names mentioned or discussion of the case to which the suppression order applies.

Thanks.
 
Joe Blow said:
I think it's advisable to tread very carefully here. There is a suppression order in place
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I note that you are generally opposed to censorship (as am I) but from a legal perspective I do wonder if it would be wise to edit or remove the post in this thread which does name an individual?

I'm thinking purely in terms of any potential legal consequences there, noting the suppression order, and please don't anyone interpret this comment as an attack on the person who posted the comment.

In principle I see the suppression order as a bit pointless, since the facts of the matter are easily available from overseas sources and reasonably widely known in Australia, but the law is the law and if it were up to me I'd just err on the side of caution.
 
I didn't know about the suppression order and I didn't entirely trust the article given it wasn't posted locally so I chose my words carefully but happy for the post to be removed. Is our server based in the US? If it is I'd be surprised if we violated any laws but that's the ref's call
 
Smurf1976 said:
I note that you are generally opposed to censorship (as am I) but from a legal perspective I do wonder if it would be wise to edit or remove the post in this thread which does name an individual?
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A wise suggestion Smurf. I have edited the post to remove the name just to be on the safe side.
 
On occasion I take it on faith and harken to the adage 'no news is good news'
 
Catholic Church opening up another ugly situation with sexual abuse of nuns by priests.

Catholic Church headed for another sex abuse scandal as #NunsToo speak up
The Conversation
By Kathleen McPhillips

Posted about 3 hours ago

Photo: Pope Francis has finally, and for the first time, admitted the Church has a problem with priests sexually abusing nuns. (AP: Gregorio Borgia)
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All eyes will turn to Rome between February 21-24, when senior church clerics across the world meet to discuss how to handle the widening sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.

Until recently, this has been focused on the abuse of children.

But now Pope Francis has admitted — for the first time — sexual abuse by priests against religious women exists and must be acknowledged.

And Catholic women are speaking out under the #NunsToo hashtag.

Twenty-five years ago, Irish nun Maura O'Donohue prepared an extensive report for the Vatican on the abuse of nuns internationally by priests.

Her report was based on information supplied by priests, doctors and others, and she had been assured records existed for several of the incidents. But the report was covered up.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02...or-another-sex-abuse-scandal-nunstoo/10817270
 
The big Reveal.
Cardinal Pell found guilty on 5 charges of child sex assault. (This was the case that was suppressed last December)
Cardinal George Pell: Vatican treasurer found guilty of child sexual assault
Third most senior Catholic in the world convicted on five charges by jury in Australian court case
• Follow live updates on the reaction to Cardinal George Pell’s conviction
• Five times guilty: how Pell’s past caught up with him

Cardinal George Pell, once the third most powerful man in the Vatican and Australia’s most senior Catholic, has been found guilty of child sexual abuse after a trial in Melbourne.

A jury delivered the unanimous verdict on 11 December in Melbourne’s county court, but the result was subject to a suppression order and could not be reported until now.

A previous trial on the same five charges, which began in August, resulted in a hung jury, leading to a retrial.

Pell, who is on leave from his role in Rome as Vatican treasurer, was found guilty of sexually penetrating a child under the age of 16 as well as four charges of an indecent act with a child under the age of 16. The offences occurred in December 1996 and early 1997 at St Patrick’s Cathedral, months after Pell was inaugurated as archbishop of Melbourne.

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...reasurer-found-guilty-of-child-sexual-assault
 
basilio said:
Further details of the December trial which found Cardinal Pell guilty of five sex offences against two choirboys.
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It's an interesting twist that churches who consider themselves bastians of goodness and virtue and far more moral than the "great unwashed", have a much higher rate of abusing children and female staff (nuns) than the rest of the population whom they normally like to judge.
 

Yeah that is very, very sad... In Cardinal Pells case it is even more heinous given his responsibility as a key figure in the Catholic Church and his responsibility to obtain justice for the victims of religious abuse . Very much a case of the Fox in charge of the chook house.

"Melbourne Response"

After being installed as Archbishop of Melbourne in August 1996, Pell announced the establishment of the "Melbourne Response" protocol in October of that year.[9][115]:29, 31 Victims were publicly encouraged to come forward. When Pell was appointed a Cardinal in 2003, the ABC noted that he had established Australia's first independent commissioner to handle sexual abuse complaints against clergy.[8] In 2017, it reported that the Melbourne Response was "widely criticised as being legalistic and offering inadequate support to victims".[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pell
 
There is already a savage response from families destroyed by religious sexual abuse and then re destroyed by the response of Archbishop Pell to their suffering.

Chrissie Foster calls for George Pell's Melbourne Response to be 'torn down'
Updated 32 minutes ago

Photo: Chrissie Foster attended several days of the trial and said the guilty verdict was "amazing". (ABC News: Gemma Hall)
Related Story: Pell abused two choirboys. One of them didn't live to see justice
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The mother of two girls abused by a Catholic priest says the conviction of George Pell on child sex abuse charges should lead to the tearing down of the controversial compensation scheme he set up for survivors of clerical sexual abuse.

Key points:
  • Pell is Australia's most senior Catholic cleric and has been convicted of child sex abuse
  • Chrissie Foster said the verdict helped her understand Pell's "angry" response to her family
  • She is calling for the Melbourne Response established by Pell to be dismantled

Pell was last year found guilty of sexually abusing two choirboys at St Patrick's Cathedral during his time as archbishop of Melbourne in December 1996, but the verdict had been suppressed until now.

Chrissie Foster's daughters Emma and Katie were raped by Melbourne priest Kevin O'Donnell while they were at primary school in the 1980s.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02...abuse-guilty-verdict-chrissie-foster/10845500
 
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