Sunday , July 05, 2009By John Burke
Agencies working with victims of abuse have asked the government to delay publishing the report into child sex abuse in the Dublin archdiocese.
Wat iedereen had kunnen verwachten lijkt zich dus nu inderdaad in Ierland
aan het ontwikkelen te zijn. En hoe...Het Bijlmerramp effect van de ramp ná de ramp.
Er zijn al heel wat signalen en regelrechte demonstraties geweest, op allerlei terreinen, hoe de uitkomsten van het Ryan rapport Ierland op allerlei geledingen heeft overvallen.
En niet alleen financieel...
Wat natuurlijk volkomen krankzinnig is in een proces wat zich al jaren en in alle openbaarheid aan het ontwikkelen is.
Wat de vroegere slachoffers en allerlei verschillende groepen voortkomend uit die slachtoffers en daarbij betrokken deskundigen ook al jaren zeggen... maar nog steeds niet serieus genomen werden.
Misschien is de meest duidelijke demonstratie is van wat er - ook daar - al tientallen jaren aan de hand is geweest, en de ontkenning daarvan inderdaad pas nú aan het komen en heel veel duidelijker dan dat Ryan rapport ook kon zijn...
Slachtoffer organisaties die hebben verzocht in vredesnaam het onderzoeksrapport over Dublins dioscesaan misbruik nog maar even onder de pet te houden... Namens de slachtoffers: ga nog maar even door met de ontkenning...
Hoewel iedere publiciteit (eerder verborgen) slachtoffers aantrekt kunnen een aantal (inmiddels knap geinstitutionaliseerde) organisaties de noodzakelijke opvang niet aan...
Nee, natuurlijk niet.
Een fles bisschopswijn als inzet dat de volgende vraag in dit luguber schaakspel hoort te zijn:
En nu, Diarmuid Martin?
Wat betekenen nu die 476 vroegere, en dan ook nog eens, vanzelfsprekend, overwegend mannen, die - binnen 5 weken na verschijningsdatum - voor het eerst hun mond open doen, nú Monseigneur? En dat dan nog maar bij één van de organisaties.
Hoe komt het dat in alle zorgvuldigheid die er, vanuit Dublin, al meer dan een half jaar, volkomen terecht!, is geinvesteerd in de voorbereiding op de verpletterende smerigheid van Dublin diosceen misbruik
At a mass in Dublin's Pro-Cathedral, Martin said: "It is likely that thousands of children or young people across Ireland were abused by priests in the period under investigation and the horror of that abuse was not recognised for what it is. The report will make each of us and the entire church in Dublin a humbler church." déze vragen rond de opvang van slachtoffers van het institutioneel misbruik door de congregaties niet zijn voorzien?
En nu, aartsbischop?
En nu, kardinaal Brady
en nu ....
THE Christian Brothers have been accused of censoring debate about a damning major report on child abuse due to be published today.
The order has told the heads of its 97 schools not to make any comment to the media and to refer any queries to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust which now runs them.
The move was condemned last night by Barnardos chief executive Fergus Finlay who accused the Trust of trying to "stifle" debate into the report.
The report's five-volume catalogue, which runs to 2,500 pages and cost an estimated €70m, will document the scale of emotional, physical and sexual trauma suffered by innocent children under the care of Catholic priests and nuns.
The report, by Judge Sean Ryan the head of the Child Abuse Commission, is expected to strongly condemn the Catholic Church and the Department of Education for the abuse of children in religious-run institutions.
The abuse, spanning from the mid-1930s to the mid-1990s, took place in industrial schools and reformatories which were run by the Christian Brothers and Sisters of Mercy.
The Christian Brothers were accused of trying to stifle comment after the chief executive of the Edmund Rice Trust, Gerry Bennett, sent an email to principals and secretaries of boards of management.
It said that "there will be publicity surrounding this report. It is possible that some schools may be contacted by members of the media. If this occurs you should note that the Trust has prepared a general response. We would encourage you not to make a response from your individual school, but that you refer any queries to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust".
The Sisters of Mercy are expected to come in for particular criticism from the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse which was set up exactly nine years ago this month.
476 mensen bij één organsatie in 5 weken tijd die eindelijk en voor het eerst hun mond open deden... Geweldig resultaat!
En nu? Wat betekenen al die spijtbetuigingen?
Slachtoffers?
Big business!
En voor slachtoffers? Die verliezen, per definitie en altijd!
"t Is maar net de vraag hoeveel en wat.
Die antwoorden hebben nog nooit deel uitgemaakt van de business
Bij deze!
En nu, Mgr. Diarmuid Martin?
Openheid, transparantie en verantwoordelijkheid in een democratie?
Over gepleegd misbruik op kinderen en de gevolgen voor mensenlevens daarva?
Lugubere keus!
In alle openbaarheid in tijden van internet.
Ik hoop dat U gelovig bent, kardinaal!
Vicims’ groups under pressure Sunday, July 05, 2009
Help groups have been inundated with calls since the publication of the Ryan Report, but cannot rely on sustained funding from the government, writes Public Affairs Correspondent John Burke.
Over the past six weeks, 476 people have contacted sexual abuse advocacy group One In Four for the first time.
This figure represented more new victims coming forward than the agency would normally encounter in an average year.Last Monday alone, 70 people called for the first time.’
‘The phones did not stop all day,” said Maeve Lewis, director of One In Four.
Since the Ryan Report which investigated physical, sexual and emotional abuse at industrial schools in Ireland was published last month, One In Four and the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) have been flooded with requests for first-time assistance by abuse survivors.
Around 200 of those who contacted One In Four in the past month required referral to the agency’s in-house clinical psychotherapy service.
The agency would usually deal with such numbers in a full year.“Our staff have responded magnificently,” Lewis said.
“They are coping with a level of demand way over the resources at hand. It is impossible for people to continue to work at this level of intensity without falling short of meeting the needs of people who are accessing our services.”
Lewis wrote to Barry Andrews, the Minister for Children, in recent days, saying that her agency was in dire straits and desperately required funding.
She said that the avalanche of new people coming forward for advice and help was directly related to the release of the Ryan Report, which found ‘‘endemic’’ levels of rape and sexual assault in places of detention, orphanages and schools run by the Catholic Church.
It also found that state inspectors had failed to intervene, even though some religious-run schools operating between the 1930s and 1990s had ‘‘operated a high level of ritualised beating’’. Three weeks after the release of the report, Taoiseach Brian Cowen, ‘‘on behalf of the state and of all citizens of the state’’, issued a ‘‘long overdue’’ apology to victims of childhood abuse.
Cowen said that the implementation of Ryan’s recommendations was a government priority. In the same Dail debate, Andrews said that proposals for full implementation of the recommendations would be introduced this month.
Meanwhile, another surge of people coming forward to support groups could follow the publication of the report from the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation.
The commission, chaired by Judge Yvonne Murphy, spanned a selection of abuse cases which occurred in the archdiocese of Dublin between 1975 and 2004.
It is expected to present its report to Dermot Ahern, the Minister for Justice, in the next ten days. The report is almost completed, but Murphy is considering whether or not known offenders awaiting criminal court proceedings should be named.
Last week, Lewis and Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop, chief executive of the DRCC, co-signed a letter to Ahern, in which they asked him to consider delaying the release of the Dublin report until the autumn ‘‘at the earliest’’.
This is because both agencies are stretched to breaking point, and would not be able to bear the brunt of another surge of new cases, which are expected to arise after the Dublin report.
However, Murphy’s report is expected to be half the size of the Ryan Report. It is understood that the commission was disappointed that fewer than the expected number of victims came forward, especially as the profile of victims was younger.
Most of the abusers are still relatively young men, some of whom are serving prison sentences for sexual abuse, although many are living in retirement and have been laicised by the Church.
The commission has concentrated on how the allegations were handled by the Church, arising from a representative sample of 46 clerical abusers.The commission is believed to have taken evidence from people who have information relating to abuse prior to January 1, 1975, although it is believed that this information would not form any part of its findings.
.....‘‘Avery significant number of the people who have come forward to us as first-time survivors looking for advocacy and psychotherapy in the past six weeks have actually been men who are former pupils at Christian Brother-run day schools, for whom there has not been a redress scheme or a commission to inquire into their particular situation,” Lewis said.
While the agency originally focused on clerical abuse survivors, it has evolved to reflect the predominant role of non-clerical abusers as perpetrators.
....
In 2007,the organisation received €621,000 from the HSE and had a total income of over €1.3 million with the remainder coming from fundraising, donations and smaller grants. This year, private fundraising will fall short of previous years, due to straitened economic circumstances in line with the decline generally in private donations to NGOs and charities, according to Lewis.
In previous years, funding had generally risen in line with increases in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).T he fall in CPI will go some way to softening the blow to groups such as One In Four, but only to a limited degree.
‘‘We need €130,000 extra to fund for the provision of one extra psychotherapist to deal with the near-doubling of the work load,” Lewis said.
However, not all the 70 people who rang the One In Four last Monday will become new clients.’ ‘Some just wish to speak to someone maybe only briefly before building up the courage to go a step further and make further contact,” Lewis said.‘‘It’s the first step on the road to dealing with what happened to them.”
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