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vrijdag, december 13, 2019
woensdag, december 11, 2019
zaterdag, december 07, 2019
respect for victims some tiny little secrets
Key steps in struggle to confront child abuse in the Catholic Church
June 1994
Catholic priest Brendan Smyth pleads guilty to 17 counts of indecently assaulting five girls and two boys in Belfast. His order, the Norbertines, spent decades shuttling him among Irish and American parishes and harbored Smyth from British arrest.
November 1994
Taoiseach Albert Reynolds resigns, and his government collapses, amid claims that his attorney general colluded with church authorities to delay the British extradition demand for Smyth. It shatters the taboo against pursuing criminal charges against priests.
July 1995
Former altar boy Andrew Madden becomes first person to speak publicly about abuse by a priest. Madden says the Church paid him €35,000 to keep quiet about three years of assaults by Fr Ivan Payne. Archbishop Desmond Connell denies the deal until Madden provides documentary proof of church payoff. Case spurs hundreds to pursue civil lawsuits against church authorities.
January 1996
Panel of Irish Catholic leaders instruct bishops to tell senior police officers ‘without delay’ about all suspected sex-abuse cases. Some bishops continue to suppress such information over the coming decade.
February 1996
Dear Daughter, a documentary shown on RTÉ details abuse suffered by Christine Buckley and others at St Vincent's Industrial School, Goldenbridge, Inchicore, Dublin.
July 1997
After serving prison term in Northern Ireland, Smyth is extradited south and pleads guilty to 74 counts of sexually abusing 20 boys and girls between 1958 and 1993. He dies of a heart attack one month into 12 year sentence.
January 1998
Payne is convicted in Dublin on 14 counts of sexually abusing eight boys aged 11 to 14. He serves only four years in prison.
March 1999
Fr Sean Fortune commits suicide in prison while awaiting trial on 66 criminal charges of molesting and raping 29 boys in the southeast Ferns diocese. One Fortune victim, former altar boy Colm O'Gorman, launches victims support group One in Four. It lobbies government for investigations into abuse cases, particularly in Ferns.
April 1999
Groundbreaking documentary series ‘States of Fear’ by RTÉ exposes abuse of children in church-run workhouses, reformatories and orphanages since the 1940s.
May 1999
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern issues ‘long overdue apology’ to all those abused in church-run institutions and vows to establish a financial compensation board and a fact-finding commission into extent of abuse. Ms Justice Mary Laffoy is appointed to head the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse.
May 2000
Government gives investigatory powers to Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse to measure causes and extent of unchecked child abuse in institutions from 1937 onward.
July 2001
The deadline for complaints of abuse to be made to the Commission. Some 3,149 people ask to testify.
April 2002
Ferns Bishop Brendan Comiskey becomes first, and only, church figure to resign because of failures to stop abuse. He admits he did too little to stop pedophile priests.
December 2002
Government establishes board to pay compensation to people who suffered sexual, physical or mental abuse in church-run institutions. Payouts require claimants to give up their right to sue church and state authorities. Taxpayers, not the church, cover bulk of cost.
September 2003
High Court Judge Mary Laffoy resigns complaining that the Department of Education, which holds most records on church-run institutions, is obstructing her investigation into child abuse. Her successor, Justice Sean Ryan, says probe must severely limit the number of abuse cases it considers or it will never finish.
April 2004
A Vatican modernizer and diplomat, Diarmuid Martin, replaces Connell as Dublin archbishop. Pledges full cooperation with state and police in exposing past cover-ups of abuse and protecting children in future.
June 2004
Judge Ryan announces the Commission will not name abusers unless they have been convicted. The Christian Brothers religious order drops legal actions against the Commission.
July 2004
The Christian Brothers testify at a public hearing that files only recently discovered in its Rome-based archive show evidence of 30 canonical trials of brothers based on proven incidents of child sexual abuse against boys in their care from the 1930s onwards.
October 2005
Investigation led by retired Supreme Court justice finds that church, police and state authorities did too little to stop sexual abuse of hundreds of children by 21 priests in Ferns. Report says Ferns bishops sheltered and promoted priests known to have raped altar boys and molested schoolgirls on an altar.
December 2005
Residential Institutions Redress Board says more than 14,000 people who claim to have suffered childhood abuse in church-run institutions have filed claims for state payouts.
December 2008
Board says it has paid nearly 12,000 victims average of €64,230 each, about 2,000 claims remain. Cost including lawyers' fees expected to reach €1.1bn.
May 20, 2009
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse unveils 2,575-page report into thousands of child abuse cases in institutions. Two more reports into the church's protection of sex-predator priests in the Dublin archdiocese and the southwest diocese of Cloyne may be published later this year.
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June 1994
Catholic priest Brendan Smyth pleads guilty to 17 counts of indecently assaulting five girls and two boys in Belfast. His order, the Norbertines, spent decades shuttling him among Irish and American parishes and harbored Smyth from British arrest.
November 1994
Taoiseach Albert Reynolds resigns, and his government collapses, amid claims that his attorney general colluded with church authorities to delay the British extradition demand for Smyth. It shatters the taboo against pursuing criminal charges against priests.
July 1995
Former altar boy Andrew Madden becomes first person to speak publicly about abuse by a priest. Madden says the Church paid him €35,000 to keep quiet about three years of assaults by Fr Ivan Payne. Archbishop Desmond Connell denies the deal until Madden provides documentary proof of church payoff. Case spurs hundreds to pursue civil lawsuits against church authorities.
January 1996
Panel of Irish Catholic leaders instruct bishops to tell senior police officers ‘without delay’ about all suspected sex-abuse cases. Some bishops continue to suppress such information over the coming decade.
February 1996
Dear Daughter, a documentary shown on RTÉ details abuse suffered by Christine Buckley and others at St Vincent's Industrial School, Goldenbridge, Inchicore, Dublin.
July 1997
After serving prison term in Northern Ireland, Smyth is extradited south and pleads guilty to 74 counts of sexually abusing 20 boys and girls between 1958 and 1993. He dies of a heart attack one month into 12 year sentence.
January 1998
Payne is convicted in Dublin on 14 counts of sexually abusing eight boys aged 11 to 14. He serves only four years in prison.
March 1999
Fr Sean Fortune commits suicide in prison while awaiting trial on 66 criminal charges of molesting and raping 29 boys in the southeast Ferns diocese. One Fortune victim, former altar boy Colm O'Gorman, launches victims support group One in Four. It lobbies government for investigations into abuse cases, particularly in Ferns.
April 1999
Groundbreaking documentary series ‘States of Fear’ by RTÉ exposes abuse of children in church-run workhouses, reformatories and orphanages since the 1940s.
May 1999
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern issues ‘long overdue apology’ to all those abused in church-run institutions and vows to establish a financial compensation board and a fact-finding commission into extent of abuse. Ms Justice Mary Laffoy is appointed to head the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse.
May 2000
Government gives investigatory powers to Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse to measure causes and extent of unchecked child abuse in institutions from 1937 onward.
July 2001
The deadline for complaints of abuse to be made to the Commission. Some 3,149 people ask to testify.
April 2002
Ferns Bishop Brendan Comiskey becomes first, and only, church figure to resign because of failures to stop abuse. He admits he did too little to stop pedophile priests.
December 2002
Government establishes board to pay compensation to people who suffered sexual, physical or mental abuse in church-run institutions. Payouts require claimants to give up their right to sue church and state authorities. Taxpayers, not the church, cover bulk of cost.
September 2003
High Court Judge Mary Laffoy resigns complaining that the Department of Education, which holds most records on church-run institutions, is obstructing her investigation into child abuse. Her successor, Justice Sean Ryan, says probe must severely limit the number of abuse cases it considers or it will never finish.
April 2004
A Vatican modernizer and diplomat, Diarmuid Martin, replaces Connell as Dublin archbishop. Pledges full cooperation with state and police in exposing past cover-ups of abuse and protecting children in future.
June 2004
Judge Ryan announces the Commission will not name abusers unless they have been convicted. The Christian Brothers religious order drops legal actions against the Commission.
July 2004
The Christian Brothers testify at a public hearing that files only recently discovered in its Rome-based archive show evidence of 30 canonical trials of brothers based on proven incidents of child sexual abuse against boys in their care from the 1930s onwards.
October 2005
Investigation led by retired Supreme Court justice finds that church, police and state authorities did too little to stop sexual abuse of hundreds of children by 21 priests in Ferns. Report says Ferns bishops sheltered and promoted priests known to have raped altar boys and molested schoolgirls on an altar.
December 2005
Residential Institutions Redress Board says more than 14,000 people who claim to have suffered childhood abuse in church-run institutions have filed claims for state payouts.
December 2008
Board says it has paid nearly 12,000 victims average of €64,230 each, about 2,000 claims remain. Cost including lawyers' fees expected to reach €1.1bn.
May 20, 2009
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse unveils 2,575-page report into thousands of child abuse cases in institutions. Two more reports into the church's protection of sex-predator priests in the Dublin archdiocese and the southwest diocese of Cloyne may be published later this year.
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donderdag, december 05, 2019
Hanno en de tocht van de olifant
"...life laughs at predictions and introduces words where we imagined silences,
and sudden returns when we thought we would never see each other again.”
maandag, december 02, 2019
Proef ter verhoging van de aangiftebereidheid Nederlandse minderjarige slachtoffers van seksuele uitbuiting
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"Wij zitten in de hulpverlening"
citaat uit Het Grote Boek
Message to Australia
citaat uit Het Grote Boek
Nog maar eentje dan:
"When you are ready to talk, we are ready to listen!"Messages from Australia
Contributors were given editorial guidelines to help them prepare their message. These guidelines advised that messages containing identifying information or offensive language would be redacted or not published.
donderdag, november 28, 2019
055 - Apeldoorn
Irish Times
25-11-2019
We did what we were told.
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We had come through much.
We knew our place.
Our children beaten,
Starved, raped,
In the homes
They lived in fear of; by Mothers,By the Brothers.
But we did what we were told.
We were obedient, clean.
Slow to thoughts of vengeance,
Uneasy saying anything.
In that house next door,
The child was beaten daily.
We saw him -- little tyke --
On his way to the school.
A bruise shaped like Ireland
On his eight-year-old face.
The reasons weren't clear.
Didn't like to interfere.
So we did what we were told.
Submissive, compliant,
And so many of us
Had been abused in our time.
So really we were frightened
There might be something to say.
So we did what we were told
And looked the other way.
And life was holy then.
In the sanctity of the slum.
Just a clip on the ear.
A punishment beating.
Oh, you'd leave your door open
In the good old days,
Of rights, and victims.
Authority's anointed.
And we looked where they pointed.
Never did us any harm.
Way it was in those days.
No.
It never did us
Any harm at all.
But now we find it frightening.
Yes.
Because
I know -- we know --
Who that tortured child was.
I heard nothing. Nothing.
Just the leaves as they fell
And the Angelus bell.
Spiritual.
Lovely.
Secret.
Old.
And they hid in the open.
We did what we were told.
schreef Joseph O'Connor, bijna
dinsdag, november 26, 2019
zaterdag, november 23, 2019
Specifieke wensen? Wij maken uw koelwagen volledig op maat
Eén van de 39
Vietnamezen die vorige maand dood werden aangetroffen in een koeltruck in
Essex, Engeland, verbleef voor zijn overtocht in Nederland. Het gaat om een
minderjarige jongen die ‘met onbekende bestemming’ verdween uit de beschermde
opvang. Dat bevestigt een woordvoerder van het COA (Centraal Orgaan Opvang
Asielzoekers) desgevraagd aan Argos en het Algemeen Dagblad.
Uit onderzoek van Argos blijkt dat het gaat om een jongen die
eerder dit jaar wegliep uit een beschermde opvang in Limburg. Hij was daar
geplaatst om hem te beschermen tegen mensenhandelaren. De medewerkers van
de opvang mogen niet reageren, maar geven aan dat het nieuws veel impact heeft.
‘Het spreekt voor zich dat het een groot drama is’, zegt een woordvoerder van
het COA namens hen. Het COA wil ‘om privacyredenen’ geen uitspraken doen
over de identiteit van de jongen.
Argos doet al langer onderzoek naar de verdwijningen van
Vietnamese kinderen na aankomst in Nederland. Zeker zestig Vietnamese kinderen
verdwenen de afgelopen vijf jaar uit de beschermde opvanglocaties die hen juist
moeten beschermen. Het COA worstelt met de opvang van Vietnamese kinderen, zo blijkt
uit interne e-mails. ‘Deze vluchtelingen verdwijnen altijd’, schrijft een
medewerker in oktober 2017.
Staatssecretaris Harbers van Justitie (VVD) zei vorig jaar
dat er ‘op dit moment bij uitvoeringsorganisaties geen informatie bekend is dat
een smokkelnetwerk betrokken is bij de vermissing van minderjarige Vietnamese
migranten.
Na de
uitzending van Argos over de verdwenen Vietnamese kinderen, vroeg de Tweede
Kamer unaniem om een onderzoek. Het onderzoek wordt uitgevoerd door het EMM,
het expertisecentrum Mensenhandel en Mensensmokkel van de politie. ‘De
onderzoeken zijn in de afrondende fase’, aldus een woordvoerder van het
ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid. ‘De Kamer zal zo spoedig mogelijk daarna
worden geïnformeerd over de onderzoeksresultaten en of de resultaten aanleiding
geven om de maatregelen in de beschermde opvang te wijzigen, dan wel om andere
maatregelen te nemen voor deze specifieke groep.’
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dinsdag, november 19, 2019
bloemen op de ramen
De vrachtferry keerde enkele kilometers uit de kust van Hoek van Holland om en is zojuist in de Vulcaanhaven aangekomen.
Moge zij sneller zijn dan hun kleinkinderen die weten dat hen de kieteldood te wachten staat in antwoord op hun vraag: "Opa, vertel nog 's één keertje over toen jij ging varen met een muts op en die man naast je met een omgekeerd petje "
maandag, november 18, 2019
zondag, november 17, 2019
donderdag, november 14, 2019
Met m'n vlaggetje, m'n hoedje en m'n toeter, zo....
en dan hoeven we nou alleen nog maar effe te besluiten dat
- er een stuk Australisch hout waaraan een uit het Parool gescheurd stukje getimmerd aan Neerlands museale collectie getiteld zo schreed de beschaving voort wordt toegevoegd
-die fikstekende boer eerst in Amsterdam tentoongesteld gaat worden, beginnen die Drenten met het hout en ruilen we daarna weer
- er een stuk Australisch hout waaraan een uit het Parool gescheurd stukje getimmerd aan Neerlands museale collectie getiteld zo schreed de beschaving voort wordt toegevoegd
-die fikstekende boer eerst in Amsterdam tentoongesteld gaat worden, beginnen die Drenten met het hout en ruilen we daarna weer
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woensdag, november 13, 2019
dinsdag, november 12, 2019
"OK boomer, sit " Mickey Mouse vs Sam Hood
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"What I can do, and what we can do collectively, is to make our work more accessible and to make our reasons more accessible, so that over time, the public develops a deeper understanding and knowledge of how the process works."
Chief Judge Peter Kidd
zondag, november 10, 2019
donderdag, november 07, 2019
Vele handen
Een simpel verhaal.
Doet denken aan Borges en Joyce en de
Bijbel. De literaire wereld is er heel wat
rijker door -Booklist
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dinsdag, november 05, 2019
Gezocht: mijn bretels maar vooral: waar is die Grappenhuis en die Rechtsbeschermende Dekker? Projectgroep: Protestantse Kerk moet meer doen tegen seksueel misbruik
De Protestantse Kerk in Nederland moet meer doen om misbruik in kerkelijke relaties te voorkomen. Zo moeten predikanten en kerkelijk werkers verplicht worden een
Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag te overleggen.
Dat adviseert een projectgroep binnen de Protestantse Kerk.
Twintig jaar geleden formuleerde de kerk maatregelen om seksueel misbruik te
voorkomen en slachtoffers te begeleiden. Een projectgroep onderzocht in
opdracht van de synode hoe de kerk de afgelopen twee decennia met deze
problematiek is omgegaan. Het rapport ‘Werk aan de schuilplaats!’ wordt eind
volgende week besproken op de generale synode. ‘Het streven van de kerk op
zowel landelijk, regionaal als plaatselijk niveau moet erop gericht zijn veiligheid
te bewerkstelligen’, staat in het rapport.
‘Dit vereist niet minder dan een cultuuromslag.’
‘Dit vereist niet minder dan een cultuuromslag.’
Ook werden protocollen en (tucht)procedures in het leven geroepen. Maar handreikingen vanuit de landelijke kerk functioneren niet automatisch in plaatselijke kerken, constateert de projectgroep. Zo staat in theorie het slachtoffer centraal, maar in de praktijk niet. In consternatie rond seksueel misbruik in het pastoraat gaat de aandacht snel naar acute problemen: hoe en wanneer te communiceren naar de gemeente? Hoe om te gaan met de waarneming van de eventueel geschorste ambtsdrager? Wel of niet een klacht indienen?
Gevolg is dat de belangen van het slachtoffer in het gedrang komen. Zij blijven zelden lid van de kerk waar het misbruik heeft plaatsgevonden.
Het rapport sluit af met tien concrete aanbevelingen, zoals
een Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag. Die moet niet alleen verplicht worden voor
dominees en kerkelijk werkers, maar ook voor vrijwilligers en ambtsdragers die
met ‘kwetsbare mensen’ werken of leidinggevende taken hebben. De projectgroep
beveelt bovendien aan dat gemeenten de verplichting krijgen vertrouwenspersonen
te benoemen. Elke vijf jaar moet het kerkelijk beleid inzake seksueel misbruik
worden geëvalueerd.
In de periode 2007-2017 werd er ongeveer honderd keer een
melding van grensoverschrijdend gedrag gedaan bij het Meldpunt seksueel
misbruik in de kerk. Een kwart van die gevallen resulteerde in een kerkelijke
tuchtprocedure bij het classicaal college voor het opzicht. De projectgroep
vindt dat weinig.
Slachtoffers zien vaak van een tuchtprocedure af, omdat ze
tijdens een zitting een persoonlijke verklaring moeten uitspreken.
Soms speelt
ook loyaliteit mee ten opzichte van de dader, evenals schaamte en schuldgevoel.
De projectgroep noemt dat begrijpelijk, maar vindt tegelijkertijd dat daarmee
de ‘zuiverende werking van het opzicht voor de kerk’ daarmee op het tweede plan
komt.
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De medewerkers hebben veel last van 'de digitale schandpaal'. "Ze worden dagelijks met naam en toenaam besmeurd op sociale media en klachtenwebsites", schrijven de instellingen in de brief.Bron NOS
zaterdag, november 02, 2019
Was I bitten by a monkey? rookgordijnen en Ere bron update
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A former Salvation Army officer has been charged following an investigation into child sex offences alleged to have occurred at a boys' home in Bexley more than 40 years ago.
In 2014, detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad established Strike Force Lehmann to investigate allegations of sexual and physical abuse at two boys' homes at Bexley and Goulburn in the 1960s and 1970s.
The allegations were raised at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Following extensive investigations, strike force detectives arrested a 79-year-old man at Broken Hill Police Station about 11.30am on Thursday.
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