Many T.D's including Fianna Fail's spokesman for children, Charlie McConalogue, are speaking out and calling for official enquiries following disturbing revelations yesterday. Six audits that were published by the National Board for the Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCC) raised many questions and concerns.
Abuse survivors who had made claims against 85 priests since 1975 in the dioceses of Raphoe, Tuam, Kilmore, Dromore, Ardagh and Derry stated that the audits were not thorough enough; they did not name the abusers, interview any abuse survivors or detail how mishandled the allegations were. Seeing as the audits were carried out by the Church owned NBSCCC and were not carried out independently, people questioned how of the 85 priests who had claims against them, only eight were convicted.
In comparison, cases in the dioceses of Ferns, Dublin and Cloyne between the years 1996-2009 were conducted by state commissions.
Colm O’Gorman of Amnesty International Ireland said: "We need to be conscious that these are reports by a body sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church, only published with the approval of the bishops concerned." The Irish Examiner
Victim Martin Gallagher said the audit failed to take account of victims who did not make formal complaints: "We’ve been let down again. The only thing that can be done now is a full state investigation. It took me 10 minutes to read it [the 20-page audit]. It was a joke." The Irish Examiner
The audits were slammed for not being a direct representation and calls for a national assessment, which should be carried out across all dioceses in the country, have been put forward.
However, it has been noted that the latest results are a stepping stone to "improvements in the attitude to and understanding of child protection" says the head of the NBSCCC, Ian Elliot. Elliot went on to say that more audits are to be published next year and audits into every diocese in the country would be completed within the next two years.
Please examine the Jehovah's Witnesses who go door to door and come on our property.
ReplyDeleteJehovah's Witnesses pedophiles.
Many court documents and news events prove that Jehovah's Witnesses require two witnesses when a child comes forward with allegations of molestation within the congregation. Such allegations have customarily been treated as sins instead of crimes and are only reported to authorities when it is required to do so by law, (which varies by state). It has also been shown that child molesters within the organization usually have not been identified to the congregation members or the public at large.
These people engage in a door to door ministry, possibly exposing children to pedophiles.
Although the Watchtower Bible Tract Society claims that known pedophiles are accompanied by a non-pedophile in such work, there is no law stating that such a practice must be followed.
The Watchtower corporation has paid out millions in settlement money already.
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