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motto: " het is véél mooier dan je denkt,

als je denkt is het nog veel mooier."
- Wimpie - 

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"Ook na de presentatie van het eindrapport van de onderzoekscommissie volgden publicaties in de media die de integriteit van de commissie in het algemeen en de persoon van Deetman in het bijzonder in twijfel trokken. Tegelijkertijd bereikte Deetman ook van de kant van slachtoffers een indringend verzoek om niet alleen een vervolgonderzoek te doen.  Ze drongen er bovendien bij hem op aan als ‘waakhond’ de uitvoering van aanbevelingen in het eindrapport door de kerkelijke autoriteiten te monitoren."

O, lio lio la  jammer dat Deetman slechts naar zíjn presentatie van het rapport verwijst,
een beetje student journalistiek zou toch geholpen zijn met de verwijzing
naar óók de presentatie van Guido Klabbers, diens (herschreven) clublied inclusief

Ad Limina december 2013 

En gij nette meneren, ‘t getij zou kunnen keren
Laat uw pretentie varen, laat uw pretentie varen…
En gij nette meneren, ‘t getij zou kunnen keren
Laat uw pretentie varen, laat ons de zaak beheren!

0, lio lio la, …

en  klik     en KLIK

maar dan moet er wel geluisterd worden ! 

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Laat die trappist maar zitten, Deetman !
Ik heb het, i.t.t. tot (studenten onderzoeks-) journalisten -die er niet bij mochten, of Mea Culpa die er niet bij wilden zijn -  wel gezien.

€23m in redress paid to Magdalene laundry survivors

29-4-2016

Irish Times 

Some 624 women held in Magdalene laundries have to date received a lump sum payment of more than €23m under a government redress scheme.

The payments work out at an average of €36,858.

According to Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald, some 807 applications have been received under the Magdalene Laundries Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme.

She said 103 applications were refused, as the women had not been admitted to one of the 12 specified institutions.

Ms Fitzgerald said 11 applications were received from women who are now resident in the US.

“Eight of these women have received their lump- sum payments and the other three applications were refused as the women had not been admitted to a relevant institution,” Ms Fitzgerald said.

A number of women who claim they were used as forced labour in High Park Magdalene laundry in Dublin, but who have been excluded from the redress scheme, launched a High Court challenge to the decision last year.

The basis for excluding the women was that, although it was accepted they worked at the High Park Magdalene laundry, they were not admitted to it.

They had been admitted to An Grianán Institution, which was on the grounds of the convent laundry.

The case followed revelations in the Irish Examiner that evidence that An Grianán and High Park Magdalene Laundry were “one and the same thing” was uncovered by the HSE in 2012.

The revelation was contained in a memo sent from the then assistant director of the Children and Family Services, Phil Garland, to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs representative on the McAleese committee, Denis O’Sullivan, and Gordon Jeyes, the national director of the Children and Family Services at the HSE, on June 26, 2012, while the HSE was examining the laundries issue as part of the McAleese inquiry.

Mr Garland points out that the HSE had uncovered evidence that showed “quite categorically” that An Grianán and High Park Magdalene Laundry were “one and the same thing”.

However, despite the revelation, Ms Fitzgerald reiterated the view that An Grianán “served a different purpose” to High Park Magdalene laundry, and stated it had already been included Residential Institutions Redress Board Scheme.

Two other institutions not previously considered laundries — St Mary’s Training Centres in Stanhope St, Dublin; and Summerhill in Wexford — were included in the redress scheme.

Justice for Magdalene Research has pointed out that not all residents knew they were entitled to compensation under the previous redress scheme and has accused the Government of denying justice to victims of forced labour.

The group has also been extremely critical of the legislation brought in last year to provide survivors with access to a range of primary and community health services free of charge as recommended in the Magdalen Commission Report by retired High Court Judge and president of the Law Reform Commission, Mr Justice John Quirke.

Justice for Magdalene Research has said that the provisions do not provide the women with the same range of drugs and services made available to Health (Amendment) Act cardholders as promised.

What age?

17-12-2015



In Auschwitz worden in juli speciale rondleidingen georganiseerd voor de jongelui die deelnemen aan de Wereldjongerendagen in het Poolse Krakau.

Meer dan 130.000 deelnemers van de Wereldjongerendagen (WJD) in het Poolse Krakau zullen in juli 2016 het voormalige concentratie- en vernietigingskamp kamp van Auschwitz bezoeken. Dat heeft de woordvoerder van het memoriaal in de Zuid-Poolse stad Oswiecim (Auschwitz) woensdag bevestigd. Het precieze aantal groepen zal slechts bekend zijn als de registratie van de groepen van WJD-jongeren is afgesloten. - 


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Lc 19,10

Ronald Mulkearns helped draft a protocol for dealing with alleg­ations of criminal behaviour by clergy while running the nation’s worst diocese for pedophile priests and brothers.

The former bishop of Ballarat, who died this month, was ­appointed to the special issues committee run by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference ­despite failing to deal with some of the world’s worst abusers.

Mulkearns presented a draft protocol to the conference in November 1989. It was to be observed if accusations of criminal behaviour, ­including pedophilia, were made against priests. The protocol, which was tendered to the child sex abuse royal commission, states that bishops have a responsi­bility to protect the reputation of individuals and the image of the church as a whole.

It states that bishops and major superiors must have ­regard to the welfare of any complainant, victim and accused, and safeguard individuals’ reput­ations and their right to privacy.

“They must safeguard the good name of the church as a whole and act to prevent or remedy scandal,” it said. “They must have a pastoral solicitude for those involved in criminal behaviour­, mindful of the words of the Lord who came ‘to seek out and save what was lost’ (Lk 19:10).”

# 35

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The Royal Commission’ Case Study 35 (Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne) will hold further hearing days in Sydney on Wednesday 27 April 2016.

The purpose of the hearing is to receive the evidence of four former officers of the Catholic Education Office.

The hearing will be held in Sydney, starting at 11:15am AEST.
 
The hearing will be streamed live via webcast on the Royal Commission’s website.

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Katholische Bischöfe: Wie soll die kirchliche Rentenkasse saniert werden?

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Dans une ambiance qui s'annonce lourde, le cardinal Barbarin va réunir demain les prêtres de son diocèse de Lyon pour faire le point sur les affaires de pédophilie et d'agressions sexuelles qui le fragilisent et éclaboussent l'Eglise.

Selon l'invitation adressée aux prêtres, il s'agira de faire le «point sur les affaires en cours», les «décisions prises» et de plancher sur des «orientations nouvelles» pour les critères de nomination et d'accueil de religieux au sein du diocèse. Une rencontre dont devraient sortir peu de choses concrètes. 

Mais après des semaines de révélations en cascade et cinq plaintes accusant le cardinal Barbarin de n'avoir pas dénoncé ces agressions à la justice, elle permettra de prendre le pouls des religieux de terrain, ceux qui sont en contact direct avec les ouailles et ont pu échanger sur la réponse, souvent jugée insuffisante, de l'Eglise à ces scandales.

«L'état d'esprit est très lourd à mon avis. La lettre (envoyée) aux prêtres par +La Parole Libérée+ a fait mouche, il me semble. Elle a surtout créé la division dans le clergé entre négationnistes et +Savonaroles+», glisse un prêtre du diocèse sous le couvert de l'anonymat, en référence au prédicateur italien qui dénonçait au XVe siècle la corruption morale des prélats romains.

L'association «La Parole Libérée» regroupe des victimes de prêtres pédophiles et a notamment permis de mettre à jour les agissements, jusque-là tus, du père Bernard Preynat il y a plus de 25 ans sur des scouts de la région lyonnaise. Très active, elle a écrit cette semaine aux quelque 600 prêtres du diocèse en leur demandant de se faire «les porte-parole des victimes silencieuses» lors de la réunion de lundi.

Divisions en interne

Un courrier qui a pour l'instant reçu peu de réponses, selon François Devaux, un des fondateurs de l'association. «L'ensemble de cette institution est-elle à dérive sectaire ou est-ce qu'il y a des gens qui sont capables de se désolidariser de cette institution ?», se demande-t-il. Quelques réponses illustrent les divergences de vue sur le sujet.Certains ne semblent pas avoir pris la mesure du problème, à l'instar de ce prêtre qui écrit : «savez-vous que grâce (?) à vous, certains distributeurs des enveloppes du denier de l'Église se sont mis en grève ?». D'autres soutiennent la démarche des victimes et proposent par exemple que le diocèse se constitue partie civile devant la justice afin de «lever toute ambiguïté sur la position du diocèse : du côté victimes, plutôt que du côté des prêtres agresseurs», écrit un religieux de la banlieue lyonnaise. 

Six affaires de pédophilie ou d'agressions sexuelles empoisonnent la vie du diocèse de Lyon depuis quelques mois, certaines en cours d'examen par la justice, d'autres déjà jugées et refaisant surface.

La principale est celle du père Bernard Preynat, mis en examen fin janvier pour des agressions pédophiles sur des scouts entre 1986 et 1991.

Parallèlement à ce dossier, Mgr Barbarin est visé par quatre plaintes pour non-dénonciation d'agressions sexuelles.

Un haut responsable du ministère de l'Intérieur a également porté plainte contre le cardinal, auquel il reproche de ne pas avoir écarté un autre prêtre du diocèse, contre lequel il avait porté plainte en 2009 pour des attouchements sexuels commis à ses 16 ans et à sa majorité (affaire classée pour prescription).

Le cardinal Barbarin de son côté nie catégoriquement avoir couvert des faits de pédophilie. Reste que ces révélations ont obligé l'Église de France à se montrer plus ferme sur le sujet : elle a annoncé récemment une série de mesures dont la mise en place de cellules d'écoute des victimes.

L'ex-prêtre mis en examen

Jean-Marc Desperon, l'ex-prêtre du Tarn-et-Garonne âgé de 62 ans, a été mis en examen hier à Montauban pour «agression sexuelle aggravée sur mineur». Il a été placé sous mandat de dépôt.

L'homme, qui avait été «exfiltré» du diocèse de Lyon en 1994, avait disparu il y a quelques jours dans le Tarn-etGaronne avant d'être retrouvé chez lui par les gendarmes. C'est une amie du suspect qui avait déclaré la disparition. Elle avait aussi fait part aux autorités d'une confession de l'homme relative à des attouchements dans sa sphère familiale sur un mineur de 15 ans à Toulouse.

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the show must go on; Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse Meets the Civil Law

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Thomas P. Doyle∗ Stephen C. Rubino† p 602 

Brothers, sisters, fathers: Religious orders key to child protection

4.21.2016 

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In a continuing effort to protect children, the Catholic Church's focus is now turning to religious orders of men and women.

Much of the attention had been on how dioceses and national bishops' conferences have been responding to victims and protecting children.

But, religious orders and congregations are sometimes left out of that picture, even though they, too, have a duty to make sure every person in their care is safe. Also, the majority of the more than 300,000 Catholic schools and orphanages around the world are run by religious brothers and sisters whose charisms are to promote human dignity and Gospel values.

Pope Francis last year authorized the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to investigate and judge claims of "abuse of office" by bishops who allegedly failed to protect minors and vulnerable adults from sex abuse. But that form of censure "wasn't extended to superior generals, and it should be," said Father John Fogarty, superior general of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit.

Canon Law and the complementary Vatican norms regarding this field "refer only to clergy" -- bishops, priests and deacons -- said Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, president of the Center for Child Protection at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University.

While the Vatican's doctrinal congregation asked the bishops' conferences to develop guidelines and procedures on how they are adhered to by local bishops, he said religious brothers, religious seminarians before ordination or religious sisters are in a league of their own, and the canonical practice is different.

Each religious order or congregation establishes its own policies, he said. And while some may have a set of guidelines for their whole congregation, in others each province or region is in charge of setting up safeguarding guidelines, Father Zollner told Catholic News Service.

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L'association a adressé une lettre aux 600 prêtres du diocèse de Lyon

21 Avril 2016 : De nombreux prêtres assurent déjà par courrier privé leur soutien à l'action de l'association.

Dans cette lettre envoyée mardi 19 avril, "La Parole Libérée" demande aux prêtres du diocèse de manifester leur solidarité avec leur action et de rompre l'omerta, ceci notamment lors de la réunion prévue le 25 avril à laquelle ils ont tous été invités par Monseigneur Barbarin.

Mon Père,

Ce courrier émane de l’association LA PAROLE LIBEREE regroupant les victimes présumées du père PREYNAT (63 se sont manifestées à ce jour).

Cette association a pour but d’apporter un soutien psychologique et humain aux victimes tant par une entraide quotidienne et solidaire que par un travail d’investigation pour tenter de comprendre comment un prêtre au passé aussi lourd et aux exactions aussi nombreuses a pu bénéficier de tant de considération (doyenné en 2013) et rester en ministère auprès d’enfants jusqu’au 31 Août 2015.

Notre volonté est que la VERITE soit faite sur ce dossier et que l’Eglise puisse enfin être une maison sûre dans laquelle nous parents, aurions une confiance pleine et sereine au point de confier ce que nous avons de plus précieux : NOS ENFANTS ….

Il nous semble que vous prêtres, comme nous victimes, sommes pris au piège de l’omerta imposée par l’Institution et il nous faut mener une action forte et déterminée pour rompre avec un passé impur.

Cette omerta est préjudiciable pour chacun d’entre nous. Elle confisque à la fois parole et confiance.
Pourtant notre action est soutenue de l’intérieur.

De très nombreux et très poignants témoignages arrivent à notre association par mails, courriers … et tous nous enjoignent de poursuivre notre chemin, de ne pas céder aux pressions, aux manipulations exercées par des spécialistes de la communication qui tentent de nous faire passer pour des « complotistes » acharnés… NOUS ne sommes rien de tout cela, nous avons simplement besoin de comprendre pour guérir, guérir individuellement certes mais aussi guérir notre Eglise malade de ses secrets, ses travers ….et aller vers une Eglise RESPONSABLE et DIGNE de sa mission.

Sur notre chemin de VERITE il nous a semblé que ce renouveau ne peut passer que par nous tous, ensemble, nous qui sommes le cœur de cette Eglise.

Notre Cardinal ne répond plus que par l’intermédiaire de ses avocats et son directeur de Cabinet lui fait répondre par l’agence de communication de crise et se défendent sur un débat juridique quand nous demandons un débat moral.

Voici quelques-unes de nos interrogations :

1/ Pourquoi le Diocèse de Lyon a attendu plusieurs mois avant de donner une suite concrète au courrier de la CDF ?

2/ Pourquoi le cardinal a-t-il d’abord dit avoir été mis au courant en 2014 puis 2007 ?

3/ Les membres du Diocèse de Lyon pourraient-ils sous la foi du serment assurer qu’ils n’ont pas été mis au courant du cas Preynat entre 2002 et 2007 ?

4/ Tout le monde a bien compris que le cardinal n’avait pas couvert d’actes pédophiles … pourquoi répondre systématiquement par ce sophisme alors que les victimes se demandent ce qu’il est advenu dans le diocèse du prêtre au passé pédophile, passé reconnu par l’intéressé lui-même ? La Parole libérée Association d’aide aux anciens du Groupe Saint Luc victimes de pédophilie 1970 -1991

5/ Pourquoi avoir fait le choix de recourir aux services d’une agence de communication spécialisée dans la gestion de crise pour demander pardon à des victimes, alors qu’il était simple d’agir en conséquence en assumant et en reconnaissant les manquements évidents?

6/ Ne serait-il pas nécessaire de rendre des comptes aux fidèles sur le financement de son système de communication ? Il va de soi que le Denier du culte ne peut être une réponse moralement acceptable.

7/ Pourquoi le cardinal a-t-il demandé pardon aux victimes en général au lieu de demander pardon aux victimes lyonnaises en particulier? Est-ce un coup de communication ? Cela a-t-il sa place dans le cadre liturgique ? Peut-on demander pardon au nom d’un prêtre pédophile quand on l’a soi-même promu en connaissance de cause? Peut-on entrevoir une sincérité dans cette réponse ?

8/ Pourquoi laisser des avocats faire allusion à la cagoule et aux collabos quand on parle de viols d’enfants d’une dizaine d’années et de graves dysfonctionnements alors qu’il s’agit d’une obligation légale de la dénonciation d’acte pédophiles tant au niveau des lois pénales que canoniques? Laisser faire de telles allusions amènera-t-il à une issue sereine et saine?

9/ Pourquoi laissez faire apparaitre, en cette année de la Miséricorde, une action de prise de conscience réalisée par les victimes pour le bien de l’institution comme étant une campagne de lynchage médiatique alors que des dizaines de victimes ont souffert d’actes effroyables ?

10/ Comment pourrait-on accorder notre confiance à un homme qui nous a délibérément menti dans ses communiqués officiels, fuyant sa responsabilité. Celui-ci peut-il encore avoir une crédibilité dans le salut de notre Eglise ?

Les victimes, enfants de l’Eglise, ont dû affronter leur honte, leur souffrance, mettant en péril leur équilibre personnel pour grandir notre société et cette institution. Pour replacer celle-ci au rang moral qui doit être le sien, quoi qu’il en coûte. Cela ne suffira pas. Aujourd’hui, ce débat doit être porté au sein même de l’institution, par ses dignes représentants. Il est de la responsabilité de chacun d’agir ou de consentir.

Nous vous proposons et vous remercions de profiter de cette réunion du 25 AVRIL organisée par le cardinal pour initier un renouveau, faire de notre Eglise une institution engagée, bienveillante et référente morale, prête à assumer et à combattre ses erreurs avec honneur, dignité et responsabilité pour le salut de son âme.

Si notre démarche fait sens pour vous et que vous souhaitez nous aider, vous pouvez nous contacter par mail : laparoleliberee@gmail.com

Enfin n’hésitez pas à être les porte-paroles des victimes silencieuses que nous représentons en affichant ce simple autocollant ci joint à ce courrier. La place que nous lui souhaiterions est sur votre cœur si le courage et l’espoir vous y amènent.

Soigner notre Eglise c’est lui permettre de se recentrer sur ses fondations

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« Laissez les petits enfants, et ne les empêchez pas de venir à moi » Mathieu 19:14

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Het Vaticaan heeft voor de allereerste externe audit in zijn geschiedenis PwC in de arm genomen.

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"Als we niet weten hoe we op geld moeten passen, wat je kunt zien, 

hoe kunnen we dan passen op de zielen van gelovigen, die je niet kunt zien?"

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16-12-2015

An external audit of Vatican finances being carried out by global firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has been suspended by the Holy See.

The move raises further questions about whether Pope Francis continues to encounter internal resistance in carrying out reforms of the Vatican’s often haphazard and chaotic administration.

Since his election in 2013 the pope has made cleaning up the Holy See’s finances one of the key elements of his reform process.

To that end, he created two new bodies in 2014, the Secretariat for the Economy and the Council for the Economy, which were to exercise “oversight for the administrative and financial structures” of the Holy See and the Vatican City state.

It now seems that the Secretariat for the Economy, which is headed up by Australian cardinal George Pell, is on a collision course with the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, the traditional engine at the heart of Holy See administration.

This week, two senior figures at the Secretariat of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, wrote to all Vatican entities to tell them that the ongoing audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers had been “suspended immediately”.

The audit was commissioned at a reported price of €3 million by Cardinal Pell last December. Archbishop Becciu reportedly stressed this week that previous instructions from Cardinal Pell, calling on departments to co-operate with the audit, had now been “suspended . . . by superior provision”.

Vatican insiders suggested yesterday that the rationale for this decision was based on concern both about the internal dissemination of confidential financial information and legal issues with the PricewaterhouseCoopers contract.

Although Cardinal Pell said yesterday he hoped the audit would recommence very shortly, the decision to suspend it still looks like an undermining of his authority. At first glance, he would appear to have been blocked by a Curia old guard that is resistant to reform.

Further hearing dates in Case Study 35; Pulling plug on audit means gut-check time for Vatican reform;

21 April 2016

Further hearing dates in Case Study 35


The Royal Commission will hold a further day of hearings in relation to Case Study 35 (Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne) in Sydney on Wednesday 27 April 2016 at 11:15am.

The purpose of the hearing is to receive the evidence of four former officers of the Catholic Education Office, who have provided statements to the Royal Commission following the evidence of Cardinal George Pell from Rome in March.

All witnesses will be appearing in Sydney with some legal representatives appearing from Melbourne via video link.

Venue: Hearing Room 1, Level 17, Governor Macquarie Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney.
Time: 11:15am – 4pm AEST
Date: Wednesday 27 April 2016. If necessary, the hearing may continue on Thursday 28 April 2016.

The directions hearing will be streamed live via webcast on the Royal Commission’s website at www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au.

April 20, 2016

When Pope Francis’ landmark project of financial reform was announced two years ago, one lynch-pin was the idea that the world would no longer just to have to take the Vatican’s word for it in terms of how much money it has and where it’s going.

Instead there would be a credible audit carried out according to generally accepted business standards in the 21^st century. That step, officials said, would represent a revolution in the direction of transparency and accountability.

As it turns out, it’s now a revolution delayed.

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“Curent Ordinarii, audito etiam, si opus fuerit, 

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peritorum consilio, ut in ecclesiarum aedificatione vel refectione serventur formae a traditione christiana receptae et artis  *

1950, Wim van Hoorn

  

 

# 38 en Criminal Justice Public Roundtables

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The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is holding a series of public roundtables in April to discuss a range of criminal justice issues with invited participants.

When:             Wednesday 20 April (reporting offences) 10am-4pm

                        Thursday 21 April (adult sex offender treatment programs) 10am-1pm

                        Friday 29 April (DPP complaints and oversight mechanisms) 10am-4pm

Time:               Commencing 10am AEST

The public roundtables will be streamed live via webcast on the Royal Commission’s website here.

Please be aware that the content of the public hearings can be distressing for viewers. 

The public roundtables follow March’s public hearing into criminal justice issues.

Royal Commission Chief Executive Officer Philip Reed said the public roundtables will discuss adult sex offender treatment programs, Director of Public Prosecution’s (DPP) oversight and complaint mechanisms and reporting offences.

“These roundtables will invite comment and discussion from a range of participants, including police, public prosecutors, criminal justice policy officials, academic and practitioner experts and others,” Mr Reed said.

“Consultation through these public roundtables will help inform the Royal Commission’s criminal justice policy work,” Mr Reed said.

The first public roundtable will discuss criminal offence for failing to report child sexual abuse, including the issue of blind reporting, where the alleged victim’s name or identifying details are not given to police.

The second public roundtable will discuss adult sex offender treatment programs, including current programs in Australia and internationally, as well as discussing the effectiveness of these programs.

The third public roundtable will look at DPP complaints and oversight mechanisms, including whether there should be avenues for victims to seek review of decisions not to prosecute and whether there should be external oversight of DPPs.

Blind-reported child sex abuse cases may be reopened after hundreds not investigated; when you're ready to talk we're ready to listen

Hundreds of cases of child sex abuse going back decades may be reopened after the Catholic Church publicly abandoned a controversial practice known as blind reporting.

ABC News

20-4-2016

Blind reporting occurs when an organisation passes on an allegation of child sex abuse, but strips the report of the name of the victim, meaning police are unable to investigate the report.

NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge has obtained documents under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws that, for the first time, reveal the extraordinary extent of blind reporting, which has potentially allowed hundreds of perpetrators to continue to abuse children.

The ABC has spoken to child sex abuse victims who are angry the allegations they reported to the Catholic Church some years ago were never fully reported to police.

The figures obtained by Mr Shoebridge reveal during the past eight years, NSW Police have received 1,476 blind reports from NSW organisations.

Many relate to the Catholic Church.

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"The blind reporting process has at its heart a really obscene conflict of interest," Mr Shoebridge said.

"One of the key problems with blind reports is that the police's own protocol says when they get a blind report they don't investigate it.

"They just file it as criminal intelligence and that means perpetrators are not being brought to justice."

The practice has also attracted criticism from the NSW Ombudsman.

Deputy Ombudsman Steve Kinmond warned: "We could have over a thousand reports that may be on the wrong side of the law."

The NSW Police have refused to reveal whether they still actively encourage blind reporting, despite a recommendation from the NSW Police Integrity Commission last year that the practice should be reviewed.

The FOI documents show there was a huge increase in the numbers of blind reports passed to police since the start of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The royal commission will today hold a public roundtable that will examine the lawfulness of the longstanding practice of blind reporting.

Between 2005 and 2009, a total of 53 blind reports were passed on by organisations to the NSW Police sex crimes squad.

In 2012, that number increased to 256 blind reports, and by 2013, organisations passed on 460 blind reports to police.

Victim's statement never passed on to police

Victims of child sex abuse are now speaking out against blind reporting.

One of those victims, who wants to be known only as Denise, is the niece of notorious paedophile Denis McAlinden, whose crimes were concealed by the Catholic Church for decades.

She reported child sex abuse at the hands of her uncle to the Catholic Church in 1995, but her signed statement was never passed on to police.

In 2008, her allegations were included in a blind report, but Denise was never contacted.

"I feel really let down," Denise told the ABC.

"I think what I've been through, I've done everything I can to help report things, and nothing was done.

"It was the Church protecting their own as far as I'm concerned."

Another victim, known as Robert to protect his identity, reported child sex abuse to the Catholic Church in 2011.

He said he was told the allegation would be passed to police, but instead, a blind report was lodged which did not contain his name.

"Blind reporting I think should be against the law," Robert said.

"What's the point of telling the police about an allegation without giving them the full information so that they can't investigate?"

Majority of blind reports not investigated

Last year, the Police Integrity Commission launched Operation Protea, established after the ABC's Lateline program revealed the practice of blind reporting.

Blind reporting has been standard practice in NSW for up to two decades.

The FOI documents reveal that the NSW Police sex crimes squad was struggling to cope with the volume of blind reports it was receiving by 2014, following a major focus on child sex abuse during a special commission of inquiry and the royal commission.

In July 2014, NSW Police drafted a new protocol to lay out the procedure to be followed by organisations like the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the Salvation Army and others when reporting historical child sex abuse in blind reports.

The document states: "Since the commencement of 2014 the [number] of these 'blind reports' has continued to increase ... with competing priorities within the squad, none of these 2014 reports have been assessed or allocated to any Sex Crimes staff for action.

"The NSWPF may be open to criticism if this backlog is not addressed."

The document shows that the new protocol stipulated that Local Area Commands should now take charge of blind reports, but in the overwhelming majority of cases, no investigation results from blind reports.

The practice of blind reporting was criticised in a report by the Police Integrity Commission last year, which recommended the NSW Police review the practice.

But the NSW Police Force is refusing to clarify its position on blind reporting, saying it cannot comment on a matter that is currently before the royal commission.

Mr Shoebridge says that is not good enough.

"What is clear from the most recent bundle of documents out of the police is that the police are committed to blind reporting even though it's got such a clear conflict of interest," he said.

"How on earth the NSW Police think this is acceptable is a mystery."

Over a thousand reports 'could be on wrong side of law'

Mr Kinmond also holds concerns about blind reporting.

The NSW Ombudsman's office has lodged a submission with the royal commission, highlighting the practice of blind reporting serious indictable offences "is inconsistent with section 316 of the NSW Crimes Act".

"The act says you can't withhold information unless you have a reasonable excuse. The real question is what constitutes a reasonable excuse," Mr Kinmond said.

"We could have over a thousand reports that may be on the wrong side of the law.

"This is about protecting those who come forward but it's also about protecting children — we need to strike the right balance."

The Catholic Church said its Professional Standards Office and local dioceses have, since midway through last year, abandoned the practice of blind reporting, and is retrospectively lodging reports with police that pass on victims' names.

But the figures released by NSW Police show there were 109 blind reports lodged last year, and four so far this calendar year.

It is not clear whether any of those reports came from the Catholic Church.

Chief executive of the church's Truth, Justice and Healing Council, Francis Sullivan, said the church had responded to the Police Integrity Commission's report in reviewing its practice on blind reporting.

He expressed regret if victims felt aggrieved by the process of blind reporting.

"It's absolutely regrettable if people were under the impression that their name was going to be given to the police and it wasn't," Mr Sullivan said.

"The practice now is that regardless of individual preferences, the name of the perpetrators and the names of victims are given to the police."

The Catholic Church said it had so far re-lodged 250 reports of alleged child sex abuse to police, which had previously been blind reported.

"These re-lodgements are continuing all the time," a spokesperson said.