News Uk Sex Abuse Reportage Over The Last Year Or So....

[ms spock]

I've just read an article about another one, this time someone who has confessed to the crimes committed and will be sentenced sometime soon.

I'm angry to read in the article that the police had been informed of some of the things this man was doing for several years, and yet, they did absolutely nothing about it.

It is hard that they do nothing with the information that they were provided.

I warned my family about my father and lost my place in my family and my extended family. People do turn a blind eye and thus they enable it to happen.

I understand your frustration rainy daze.

 

[rainy_daze]

I was very thankful to have this thread to vent too and feel supported. Sometimes it isn't just the relentless reporting that goes on (I was only reading an online newspaper because of Mandela - why was this article in any way related? I also should have known better than to click on it and read it). Sometimes it is the content of the stories, not just the style they are reported in or how often. It is also the reality of people doing nothing, and these things still happening, when some of the crimes in that particular case could have been prevented if the person had been caught when originally brought to attention. I will stop rant here.

I have a huge deal of respect for you Ms Spock. You deserved better. Thank you for understanding and sharing.

 

[Abstract]

I will never understand how people can look the other way or just not do enough. Or worse turn on the one who was harmed. Sorry it is hurtful Rainy daze and Ms Spock.

rainy daze. I think they are looking at this issue seriously here as a result of all the dirty laundry that has been aired in the last year or so. I believe they are looking at bringing in some legal requirements that would mean people are obliged to report anything they witness. I couldn't face listening to the whole thing so don't know if it will just be certain professionals or more than that but I think it is a step in the right direction. It seems people need to be educated on what the human and moral thing is to do. Way too many people seem to have a deficit in that department.

 

[ms spock]

I have a huge deal of respect for you Ms Spock. You deserved better. Thank you for understanding and sharing.

It means a lot to me that you acknowledge that rainy daze because I am struggling with the huge deficits, loss of family and the huge consequences for my life that it all had. It was the right thing to do but I wish I hadn't been so naive in believing in justice. But you know if enough people do it, come forward, warn other family and family members and extended family members in every generation hopefully it will end. I know I did everything in my power to stop the incest in my family. I was only 15 though. I did stop him from killing everyone.

The inquiry into sexual abuse in institutions in Australia is a big step forward (though many victims have said to me that the system was not victim/survivor friendly and accessible so a lot of people have not come forward.) But some have and so hopefully it will make a difference. Today the front page news was the Catholics had paid 43 Million Dollars in compensation, but that is not out of court and other negotiations so really who knows how much they have really paid, but it is only about $25,000 per person. But it is in the news, in black and white what we Catholics have known for 20 plus years.

 

[ms spock]

I will never understand how people can look the other way or just not do enough. Or worse turn on the one who was harmed. Sorry it is hurtful Rainy daze and Ms Spock.

Thank you Abstract. Today particularly that means a lot.

I wonder sometimes my family must see all the pain and hurt of what was done to those sexual abuse victims and how much it has ruined their lives. I wonder (totally off topic) how they see me, perhaps not at all. And they were sexually abused as well. But I was the "Bad" one for disclosing it. That was the real crime.