Witness testifies but can’t face accused in Nunavut sex assault trial

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Het water gaat er anders dan voorheen."

Sometimes it’s hard just to walk through the courtroom door, let alone describe in detail the traumas of childhood.

Muttering profanities outside the door and then hiding her face inside a hoodie as she passed Eric Dejaeger — the man accused by dozen of witnesses of child sexual assault in Igloolik from 1978 to 1982 — the next in a long line of witnesses for the prosecution took the stand at the Nunavut Court of Justice Nov. 20.
Avoiding all eye contact, the woman, 36, sat down and looked left, away from Dejaeger and his lawyer, Malcolm Kempt.

“I don’t want to say his name,” she said when Crown prosecutor Doug Curliss asked who worked at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in Igloolik.

Dejaeger, a Belgian-born Oblate missionary who became a Canadian citizen in the 1970s, has already served a five-year prison sentence imposed in 1990 after he was found guilty of sex crimes which occurred in Baker Lake between 1982 and 1989.

He now faces 77 new charges stemming from his time in Igloolik, where he was stationed before Baker Lake. Of those, he has pleaded guilty to eight charges of indecent assault.

The witness, who gave evidence on the afternoon of Nov. 20, described how she would accompany her parents when they attended meetings at the church every other day for up to two hours at a time.

While her parents met with another priest — Father Robert Lechat — Dejaeger would take her to another room and sexually abuse her, she said.
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After the Crown prosecutor stopped cross-examining her, it was defence lawyer Malcolm Kempt’s turn.

But Kempt had to move away from Dejaeger and closer to the witness box to see the witness’s face — something he’s had to do for several of the witnesses so far.

“I don’t want to face him,” she said before Kempt began his questioning.

She told the defense lawyer that she probably had it easy when her experience with Dejeager is compared with others.

After Kempt’s questioning, she put her hoodie back up and walked out of the court linked arm-to-arm with a supporter who was sitting in the gallery.

Loud wails could be heard outside the courtroom, even after the door shut behind her.




The trial continues Nov. 21. The court has heard from six witnesses so far and the trial is expected to last six weeks.

(Bram Vermeulen) 

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21 -11- 2013

APELDOORN - De proef van de politie met een computergame om mensen te betrekken bij het oplossen van zogenoemde 'cold cases', is verspild geld. Dat zegt de familie van de in 1998 vermoorde Apeldoorner Henk Gerritsen, die centraal stond in de proefversie.

De ontwikkeling van het computerspel is stopgezet, omdat het te duur zou worden. Tot nu toe heeft het experiment een half miljoen euro gekost. Dat geld had beter anders besteed kunnen worden, nieuw DNA-onderzoek bijvoorbeeld zou niet meer dan 2 ton hebben gekost, zegt de familie. Volgens de politie blijkt uit een evaluatie van TNO dat het spel pas echt zin heeft als het verder wordt aangepast. Maar dat maakt het experiment nog duurder.

De ontwikkeling van de game is betaald met subsidies van het Programma Aanpak Cybercrime en een Europese subsidie voor gamebedrijven in Noord-Nederland. Het idee voor het computerspel was afkomstig van het korps Noord- en Oost-Nederland.

Volgens een woordvoerder van de politie heeft de proef wel duidelijk gemaakt dat mensen bereid zijn om mee te denken bij het oplossen van langslepende zaken.

Meerbosch en de zwijgcultuur: 34- 45 meldingen van slachtoffers, geen uitspraken mogelijk over de omvang. !

NIJMEGEN - Personeelsleden van kinderdorp Neerbosch in Nijmegen maakten met elkaar geen afspraken over het misbruiken van kinderen. Dat staat in een rapport over het jarenlange misbruik binnen het kinderdorp, dat vandaag gepresenteerd is. In het kinderdorp  pleegden meerdere personeelsleden seksueel misbruik. Ook de oud-directeur vergreep zich aan kinderen binnen de instelling. In totaal hebben 34 slachtoffers melding gemaakt van misbruik in de lange geschiedenis van het kinderdorp.

'Nog 9 medewerkers deden mee'

In het rapport wordt een lijst gemaakt van mensen die in verband worden gebracht met het seksueel misbruik. Naast de directeur worden ook 9 andere medewerkers uit de periode 1975-1985 genoemd: 6 groepsleiders, een leidinggevende en 2 medewerkers (medisch/onderwijs). De meeste kinderen werden misbruikt door 1 dader, drie mensen door 2 of 3 daders. Ook is er een melding over misbruik in groepsverband waar de medewerker jongens elkaar liet misbruiken. Verder wordt er melding gedaan van misbruik door een groepsgenoot, die zelf waarschijnlijk weer is misbruikt door de directeur. Misbruik vond meestal plaats over een langere periode.

'Bij de directeur in bad'

Over de jaren '70 laat het rapport een beeld zien van verschuivende normen en waarden over omgangsvormen. Het was bijvoorbeeld heel normaal dat pupillen die niet naar huis konden tijdens weekenden en vakanties, ondergebracht werden bij medewerkers. Ook bij de directeur woonden kinderen in huis. Dat de kinderen bij de directeur in bad gingen, was algemeen bekend. En toch bleef het kinderdorp in de kern een gesloten gemeenschap waar een cultuur heerste van zwijgen.

Praten over seksueel misbruik taboe

Over het misbruik werd niet gepraat, in het rapport ontstaat de indruk van een angstcultuur. Onderzoekers zeggen dat medewerkers hooguit vermoedens hadden, maar dat er niemand op de hoogte was van het misbruik. Er is geen verband gevonden met het plotselinge vertrek van de directeur in 1986 en het seksueel misbruik. In het rapport staat: 'Het gedrag van de directeur lijkt overeen te komen met wat uit onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik in jeugdinstellingen is getypeerd als: het creëren van een geseksualiseerde cultuur door een charismatische leider, waaraan het moeilijk is om je onttrekken. Kinderen worden uitgenodigd en krijgen privileges, zij voelen zich uitverkoren en zwijgen over wat er plaatsvindt.'

Slachtoffers willen erkenning

Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat slachtoffers erkenning willen van Lindenhout, een deel wil gebruik maken van de coulanceregeling. Ze willen hun dader opsporen en laten vervolgen of weten welke maatregelen er genomen zijn ten aanzien van de pleger. Ook vragen de slachtoffers om maatregelen die seksueel misbruik voorkomen. Lindenhout wil slachtoffers in contact brengen met plegers, en gaat misbruik aanpakken met een adviesraad van slachtoffers en professionals. Volgens de onderzoekers kan Lindenhout uit dit rapport vooral leren dat een gesloten gemeenschap met een zwijgcultuur een voedingsbodem is voor seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag.

Geen totaalbeeld

Toch geeft het onderzoek geen totaalbeeld. Omdat het onderzoek over jaren teruggaat en misbruik een taboeonderwerp is, kunnen geen uitspraken worden gedaan over de omvang. Ook is niet te zeggen of Neerbosch afwijkt van andere instellingen in die tijd. Voor het onderzoek analyseerde het Verweij Jonker Instituut 45 meldingen, werd archiefonderzoek gedaan en werden 13 sleutelfiguren en 5 slachtoffers geïnterviewd.

Maatregelen
De onderzoekers roepen Lindenhout op om maatregelen te nemen op vijf aspecten:

• erkennen wat er gebeurd is en excuses maken aan de slachtoffers;
• in gesprek gaan met de individuele slachtoffers;
• mediation tussen slachtoffer en dader;
• ervaringsdeskundigen betrekken bij het huidige beleid;
• financiële tegemoetkoming (coulanceregeling).

“Voor zover we punten nog niet hebben opgepakt in het kader van de commissie Samson en het ‘kwaliteitskader voorkoming seksueel misbruik in de jeugdzorg’ van de commissie Rouvoet, zullen we alle bovenstaande maatregelen nemen. Daar sta ik garant voor en daar mag u me aan houden”, aldus Annet van Zon.

Hoewel een aantal slachtoffers het Verwey-Jonker Instituut heeft laten weten dat het ter verantwoording roepen van de plegers hen zou helpen in het verwerkingsproces, zijn de mogelijkheden hiertoe zeer beperkt, aldus de onderzoekers. ‘Strafrechtelijk vervolgen van de plegers is niet meer mogelijk wegens verjaring.



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Sing Sing

from Nunavut en terug Eric Dejaeger on trial for dozens of sexual abuse charges dating to the 1970s and 80s

Father Eric Dejaeger might not be sitting in an Iqaluit courtroom this week if it hadn’t been for the work of Godelieve Halsberghe.

She’s the person who discovered Dejaeger had been living and working in Belgium for 15 years in spite of outstanding arrest warrants against him issued in Nunavut and by Interpol.

This ultimately led to the priest’s return to Canada to face numerous sex charges, most of them flowing from his stay in Igloolik in the later 1970s and early 1980s.

That was in 2010. Now her niece, Lieve Halsberghe, is visiting Iqaluit to see her aunt’s work completed.

“She gave me this file and I took it on and I have to finish,” Halsberghe said in an interview with Nunatsiaq News. 
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But on top of her aunt’s work, Halsberghe hopes this case will have a ripple effect in Belgium.

Belgium currently has a statute of limitations that often prevents child victims of sexual assault from pressing charges after they have reached adulthood.

If someone is sexually abused as a child, they have 15 years after the age of 18 to press charges — something Halsberghe calls “ridiculous.”

“The Belgian police could not arrest Dejaeger in 2010 because there were no offenses that he had committed that were punishable by law,” she said.

And the law needs to change, Halsberghe said.

“It should change things in Belgium. Because people should realize that it’s necessary,” she said.

“I think it’s cruel that you make laws, and these laws are not correct when it comes to these kind of crimes. The laws should be changed and that’s the opinion of all victims of sexual abuse.”

The Canadian system is a better model to follow, she said.

A priest who this week is to face 76 sex charges involving Inuit children might have been tried years ago but for a quiet nod from Canada that allowed him to leave the country, says a church leader.
Georges Vervust is the top official with the Belgian Oblates, an order of Catholic priests that sent Eric Dejaeger to several communities in what is now Nunavut.
Vervust sheds light on questions that have troubled Dejaeger's alleged victims for nearly a decade: How was a man facing child abuse charges allowed to leave the country days before his trial? And why did it take so long for him to be returned?
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In 1995, Dejaeger had just completed a five-year sentence, most of it served in a halfway house and on probation, on 11 counts of sexual assault and indecent assault against children in Baker Lake, where he was posted after Igloolik.
He was scheduled to return to court on the Igloolik charges on June 13, 1995, but never showed. By then, he was in Europe.
An arrest warrant was immediately issued, but the disgraced priest was able to live quietly in Oblate communities in France and Belgium until he was returned in early 2011.

Internal Oblate reports obtained by The Canadian Press show that Dejaeger was planning to leave Canada almost right away.

On March 26, 1995, five weeks after the Igloolik charges were laid, he wrote Oblate officials in Belgium proposing a return. On April 20, 1995, he was invited to come back.

Some in the order knew Dejaeger was planning to leave, including his superior Jean-Paul Isabelle.
"He had finished his sentence," said Isabelle in 2011. "They gave him back his passport.

"I didn't agree with him leaving. I told him, 'Well, I don't want to know anything about this. But when you get to wherever you're going, here's a code that we're going to use to let me know where you are.'"

With Belgian and Canadian passports in hand, Dejaeger left. The Oblates were informed on June 20, 1995, that he had arrived in Belgium.

A few weeks later, an Oblate in Canada wrote Dejaeger telling him he was home free.
"It seems to me that they (Canada) will do nothing unless you come to Canada."
Vervust suggested Canada seemed glad to be rid of him.
"People from the police and his lawyer told him, 'Get out of here. As long as you don't come back to Canada there is not a problem.' And that's what he did," said Vervust in the documentary.

He made similar comments in a 2010 letter to fellow Oblates in which he said "people of the Canadian courts" told Dejaeger unofficially that he should leave the country and never return.
The cases were old, said Vervust's Dutch-language letter.
Dejaeger "left Canada without any problem."

In an email to The Canadian Press, Vervust said: "I heard that Eric was told — off the record — to leave Canada by some persons of the police and his lawyer and some Oblates.
"At that time it was thought that was the best thing to do. With hindsight, it turns out to have been a mistake."

Justice Canada has declined comment.

"As extradition requests are confidential communications, we can neither confirm, nor deny, the existence of an extradition request in this matter," said an official in response to a 2010 query about the Dejaeger case.
The Canadian Press could not reach Dejaeger's lawyer for comment.
An access to information request on Dejaeger was almost entirely redacted except for news reports.

Dejaeger's lawyer in 1995, John Scurfield, died in 2009.

What Tommy Said (Or: Saving The Furniture)

 North Coast Children Home (bron CLAN )


Abuses at the North Coast Children’s Home have been detailed to the third “case study” hearing of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney this week. The institution was run by the Anglican Church (known elsewhere as the Episcopalian Church or the Church of England), although their officials have denied this, claiming it was, in fact, run by a committee, and therefore the church was not morally or legally responsible for what happened there.

The audacity of the church’s attempts to deny responsibility can be shown by the inclusion of the sign on the main gate to the Home (pictured above) clearly identifying the “Church of England” (as the Anglican Church was then known). The above photo was tended to the enquiry as evidence.

An insight into Phillip Aspinall’s (see previous posting) church’s duplicity was given by the testimony, today, of lawyer, Simon Harrison, who represented some of the victims. He testified that the way the Anglican Church dealt with the claims was the most “scurrilous and mean-minded” he has ever seen. He said that a lawyer for the Grafton diocese, Peter Roland, claimed there were limited funds for Mr Harrison’s clients.

“He was pleading poverty, but I have seen that so many times with churches I just took it as a matter of course. Out of all the claims I’ve dealt with over quite a few years, the way this was dealt with by the church was perhaps the most scurrilous and mean-minded attitude I’d ever come across quite frankly.” When Mr Harrison represented a former resident, known only as CA, who sought compensation after the group settlement had been reached in 2007, he was told the North Coast Children’s Home file was closed.

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The person who initiated the revelation of the crimes committed by Anglican Church officials and staff was “Tommy” Campion (see previous postings). Richard “Tommy” Campion is a successful press photographer who has photographed models, celebrities and rock stars and has just welcomed his grandson into the world. He is a former recipient of an Australian news photographer of the year award.
”I decided, after having dreams about children being beaten at the end of their beds, that I had to do something,” Mr Campion said.

As is so often the case for the first person to come forward regarding a specific Children’s Home, Mr. Campion soon found that he was dealing with an organisation which cared nothing about the victims, but cared a lot about its “brand” image, and the protection of its wealth. It was not long before the mask of the “caring” churchman gave way to the face of the cynical businessman protecting his investments.

Mr. Campion used the only power he had – that of embarrassment – to force Archbishop Aspinall to meet with him. He held a long, lonely vigil, with a sign, on the steps of Aspinall’s grand cathedral in Brisbane. As Mr. Campion noted, this was a humiliating thing to have to do. Eventually, the high and mighty churchman agreed to a short meeting with the lowly victim.

After an initial, apparently positive response to a five page letter he sent, detailing the abuses he experienced, things soon changed. This was because he contacted many other former residents of the Home, who then also applied for assistance from the Anglican Church. The 40 or so victims were paid an average of $10,000, after legal costs, for the most horrific abuses. [Mr. Campion and his sister have refused the offers from the Anglican Church as being grossly inadequate. This author has done the same with his offer of $4,000.] The church soon realized that there were even more victims, and that costs would eventually soar.

Mr. Campion detailed the abuses to the Royal Commission yesterday, at obviously great personal emotional cost.

The abuses related by Mr. Campion and two other witness not identified by name, are as appalling as one could ever encounter. Another four witnesses are due to give evidence later in the hearing. The details are not listed here, for sensitivity purposes, but the “read more here” section below, does list them fully. [For what it is worth, this author can vouch for the veracity of the details, having either experienced, or witnessed, almost all of them during stays in five different Children’s Homes in Queensland state, as well as having heard the accounts of over 200 other former residents of Children’s Homes.]

The first block Mr. Campion encountered was the ruse by the church to avoid any potential for civil action by, as indicated above, denying it actually operated the Home. This meant that victims had to rely on the whim of the church for compensation. This tactic is widespread when the issue of victims’ compensation arises (see previous postings, e.g. “Ellis Defence”.)

The tightening of the purse strings by the Anglican Church was covered by the evidence, today, to the Royal Commission by a former staff member, Anne Hywood. She said that, after the initial payments, no more were made because the church was “struggling with debts elsewhere” Specifically, there was a $7 million debt incurred by one of the church’s private schools. She related former Bishop Keith Slater (who resigned this year over handling of the case, and this week was replaced by the church’s first female bishop) telling her that “Well, we are in the middle of a financial crisis” and that “The diocese is not legally liable.” The new victims had “missed the boat”, she felt Slater was saying. This made her angry.

She reported that “The diocese’s response… has been overly-legalistic, has not been focused on pastoral care and on-going support of survivors and has incorporated processes and responses that have incurred additional damage to individuals.” She was also concerned that victims’ letters had not even been replied to after a period of 18 months. Clearly, the good Bishop was hoping the whole thing would just go away, and made this obvious to Ms. Hywood, his employee.

Mr. Campion would have known how heartless the people he was dealing with were, when he encountered Pat Comben, the local priest responsible for administration. Mr. Comben, in his earlier career, was a politician, rising to the rank of Education Minister in the Goss Labor Government, in Queensland State. Mr. Comben was one of those who dropped the guise of concern for the victims when it became apparent that it was going to cost his church a lot of money.

“Tommy” told the enquiry of his anger when a press release, issued by Rev Comben around the time of the claims, said “some of the matters complained of might have been standard practice in Australia some decades ago”. He purportedly commented that the victims shouldn’t complain because “at least they had a roof over their heads.”  Indeed, Comben went the whole way in denial, by questioning the truth of the allegations, telling a newspaper the victims had ”substantial hurdles to overcome” to prove their case and described the home as ”a great north coast community facility”.
Mr. Comben has not denied the allegations, and will appear before the enquiry in due course to explain himself, under oath.

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Inburgeringsprocedure: Hoe heet de burgemeester van Wezel, ezel

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Sluitingsdatum seksueel misbruik overledenen en verjaarde zaken

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KNR 19-11-2013
's -Hertogenbosch-Utrecht  - De voorzitters van Bisschoppenconferentie en Konferentie Nederlandse Religieuzen (KNR) maken bekend dat er een sluitingsdatum komt per 1 juli 2014 voor meldingen en het indienen van klachten inzake seksueel misbruik tegen overledenen en klachten betreffende seksueel misbruik dat verjaard is.

De Bisschoppenconferentie en KNR treden op korte termijn in overleg met de slachtoffergroepen en Beheer en Toezicht (B&T) inzake de uitwerking. De Bisschoppenconferentie en KNR hechten aan een zorgvuldige voorbereiding en een stappenplan dat met de slachtoffergroepen is opgesteld. Er moeten belangrijke randvoorwaarden worden vervuld, zo hebben de slachtoffergroepen de Bisschoppenconferentie en de KNR laten weten. Nu reeds roepen de Bisschoppenconferentie en de KNR slachtoffers op zich te melden, indien zij dit nog niet hebben gedaan. Dat geldt ook voor degenen die beschikken over nog onbekend steunbewijs. Er is grote waardering voor allen, die zich hebben gemeld en/of steunbewijs hebben geleverd. De RK Kerk wil schoon schip maken, zoals ook naar voren is gekomen tijdens de behandeling in de commissie Veiligheid & Justitie van de Tweede Kamer op 14 november 2014.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO (November 14, 2013) - The Honourable Bernard Valcourt, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, issued the following statement today:
“I am pleased to announce that the Government of Canada will work with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the parties to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, as well as the Ontario Superior Court to provide the Commission with a one-year extension to its operating period, until June 30, 2015, as requested by the Commission.

This additional year would allow the Commission sufficient time to complete its mandate, including writing its final report and receiving those documents held at Library and Archives Canada that Canada provides during this period.

We look forward to continuing to assist the Truth and Reconciliation Commission with its important mandate and to meeting Canada’s obligations as set out in the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.

Our government remains committed to achieving a fair and lasting resolution to the legacy of Indian Residential Schools, which lies at the heart of reconciliation and the renewal of the relationship between Aboriginal people and all Canadians.”

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Grandfather Mountain Wonders Never Cease

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Limburg Design pallium onder de hamer : 20.000 Euro Ik lieg alleen wanneer ik het nodig vind: de flexibele verhouding van geestelijken tot de waarheid

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18.11.2013
 FAZ
Von Daniel Deckers 

 · Hätte das Gericht die beiden falschen Aussagen des Bischofs so gewichtet wie die Staatsanwaltschaft, hätte der Papst Tebartz-van Elst wohl aus dem Amt entfernen müssen. Nun aber richtet sich alle Aufmerksamkeit wieder auf Limburg.


Eines ist seit Montag sicher: Die Hamburger Justiz hat Papst Franziskus die Entscheidung über die Zukunft des Limburger Bischofs Tebartz-van Elst nicht abgenommen. Hätte das Amtsgericht die beiden falschen Aussagen an Eides statt nämlich so gewichtet wie die Staatsanwaltschaft und einen Strafbefehl erlassen, hätte der Vatikan den rechtskräftig verurteilten Bischof – nach bisheriger Übung – aus dem Amt entfernen müssen. Nun aber richtet sich alle Aufmerksamkeit auf ein Geschehen in Limburg, das seit Monaten unter dem Codewort „Bischofshaus“ Rätsel aufgibt.


Wie in Hamburg, so geht es auch in Limburg um das (wohlwollend formuliert) flexible Verhältnis des Geistlichen zur Wahrheit – doch nicht nur darum. Denn die absichtliche Verschleierung der Kostenexplosion und die Irreführung der Öffentlichkeit durch falsche Tatsachenbehauptungen über die Höhe der Bausumme mögen das Vertrauen in die moralische Integrität des Bischofs unwiederbringlich zerstört haben, wie Domkapitel und Diözesanversammlung einmütig feststellen. Justitiabel ist dieses Verhalten nicht – und für den Papst offensichtlich kein Grund, an Tebartz-van Elst ein Exempel zu statuieren.

Dessen Schicksal hängt am seidenen Faden einer Kommission, die bis Ende Januar alle Entscheidungswege und Verantwortungsebenen rekonstruieren soll, die bei der Beanspruchung von mindestens 31 Millionen Euro aus dem Vermögen des Bischöflichen Stuhls im Spiel waren. Bis der Papst entscheidet, dürfte es Frühjahr werden. Weitere Monate könnten vergehen, ehe die Limburger Staatsanwaltschaft ihre Schlüsse gezogen haben wird. Diese lange Ungewissheit tut keinem der Beteiligten gut. Aber das Verfahren ist gerecht – und damit ein Beitrag zur Rechtskultur in der Kirche.

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Thanks, Mate. How The Paedophile-Catchers Responded (Or: Thanks, Mate)

16-11-2-13
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There are those who support and advocate for victims of child sexual abuse. There are also those who get them justice. Most of the Australian general public are familiar with the part played by Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox (see previous postings), revealed during the New South Wales State Government enquiry which finished recently.

The media has unearthed the role played by his counter-parts in the Victorian state system, and dubbed them the “paedophile catchers”.      

[Most of the following comes from reports in the Warrnambool Standard newspaper and NewsCorp publications, and is provided for the record, in the light of the mixed assessment of Victorian Police, in the past, contained in the report.]

                

 Retiring Detective Senior Sergeant, Chris O’Connor 

– Photo: Norm Oorloff

Detective Senior Sergeant, Chris O’Connor, recently retired after having been Victoria State Police’s child sex expert for decades. He has given his views on the report of the Victorian State Parliamentary enquiry into clerical child sexual abuse in that state, which was released this week (see previous postings).

“From where I sit, and from the many, many people who are involved in the child protection industry who I have spoken to over the past 25 years, we are as one voice in relation to this, and that is there should have been an inquiry years ago. Governments have been told and told and told about paedophile problems in institutions. I defy anybody who has had anything to do with institutions and child protection to say they never realized it is as bad as it is,” he says.

Mr. O’Connor is particularly critical of the Catholic Church. “The Catholic Church is very much in the gun at the moment and so it should be because, historically, it has been the most responsible organisation for the care and protection of children, and it has failed to do so. There is ample evidence the Catholic Church has protected paedophile priests.”

“Some institutions relied on children often not being believed to quietly move paedophiles to different locations so as to keep the problem hidden and in-house. I’ve got no doubt various institutions which were supposed to care for children knew child sexual abuse was happening in their organisation and didn’t report it.”

“The Catholic Church is a classic example. It had institutions in the US and elsewhere in the world where priests, if there were allegations of inappropriate behaviour, were sent. They were sort of like dry out centres where you would send alcoholics. The priests were treated by psychologists and effectively given a certificate saying they were fixed and they could go back.”

“But there is no cure. You never are not a paedophile once you have become one. So the priests would come back to Australia and offend again. The police were never involved. The church didn’t consider it was a police issue, they determined it was a welfare issue it could handle quietly.”

He has been warning for years about the disgraceful behaviour of the Catholic Church and other institutions with responsibility for caring for children. He said that evidence suggested some priests chose to be priests because of the hold it would give them over children they could abuse, just as other paedophiles were attracted to jobs which gave them easy access to children. He said that the current Royal Commission should have been ordered many years ago, as there was ample evidence.

Of all the paedophiles Mr. O’Connor has caught and locked up during his 36 years with Victoria Police, he describes Catholic priest Michael Glennon as the worst. He committed many of his crimes while on bail awaiting trial for other sex offences, and used his knowledge of Aboriginal traditions to scare his victims into silence. Glennon was also convicted of abusing 15 children between 1974 and 1991, mostly at youth camps held at Karaglen, a rural property he helped to establish and run.

“There were a litany of victims and offences by Glennon that he never, to this day, acknowledged and yet he was a man of the cloth. It’s incongruous. He was someone children should have been able to trust implicitly, and he betrayed that trust in the most awful way.” Sen-Sgt O’Connor told the Herald Sun newspaper.

The experiences and views of Detective Senior Constable, Colin Ryan, were similar. He was based in the town of Warrnambool and was involved in investigating three Catholic clergy. His investigations led to the arrest and conviction of former priest, Paul David Ryan [obviously no relation!], who was sentenced to 18 months’ jail in 2006, after pleading guilty to assaulting an altar boy. He is also understood to have offended in the United States. “The damage that is done by these sexual predators cannot be overstated,” Detective Senior Constable Ryan said, when indicating that he welcomed the report which he felt would provide some solace to victims and their families.

Helen Watson, who told the Victorian inquiry about her son taking his life after allegedly being abused at a Catholic presbytery in Ararat, said the report was a challenge to the Victorian State Government to enact the recommendations of the report, soon. “If it’s not acted on, then all our efforts have been wasted,” said Mrs. Watson.

She plans to approach a proposed new taskforce and seek an investigation into Father Ryan’s alleged abuse of her late son.
“Peter’s life changed after he went to a sleepover at the Ararat presbytery at the age of 15.


He went from being an intelligent, vibrant person to someone struggling to survive, and on the path to self-destruction. He suicided at the age of 24, and was buried in Melbourne as an unknown person.”
It was only by chance about six years later that his fingerprints were identified.
 “We had him exhumed, and buried on the family farm,” Mrs. Watson told the Warrnambool Standard.

[Postscript: Australian Federal Police officers arrested 65 people nation-wide, including several schoolteachers in the State of Queensland, for on-line child pornography offences, in coordinated raids yesterday.

The arrests resulted from investigations conducted by Canadian authorities in Toronto.

Merci mille fois, Canada.]

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