Former Inquiry panel member, Professor Alexis Jay, has been chosen to replace Justice Goddard as Chair for the nation’s Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual abuse.
In a statement on the Inquiry’s website, Professor Jay says:
“I am committed to ensuring this Inquiry does everything it has set out to do and does so with pace, with confidence and with clarity.
“Be in no doubt – the Inquiry is open for business and people are busier than ever working hard to increase momentum. The Panel and I are determined to make progress on all parts of the Inquiry’s work, including speaking to victims and survivors.
I am determined to overcome the challenges along the way. I will lead the largest public inquiry of its kind and together with my fellow Panel members we will fearlessly examine institutional failures, past and present and make recommendations so that the children of England and Wales are better protected now and in the future.”
In a letter to the Home Secretary in which Professor Jay responds to the Government’s invitation to Chair the Inquiry, Professor Jay accepts, and declares she has no direct interests relating to the subject matter of the Inquiry. The letter goes on to detail her experience as a social worker, manager and Chief Executive and Chief Inspector of Social Work For Scotland. However she is perhaps best known for her report on child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, often referred to as the Jay Report, which was very well received by survivors and victims of abuse.
Professor Jay’s appointment is important for several reasons. It of course symbolises the latest effort in finding a reliable and appropriate Chair but it is also the first time that the Inquiry has hosted a Chair without any legal qualifications. This may prove challenging if the Inquiry continues along its adversarial path, holding trial-like hearings and flirting with Inquiry boundaries as set out by the Inquiries Act, but it is also a blessing. The Inquiry is heavily dominated by legal minds, which whilst very useful for pouring over detail and pulling out potential violations of law, is not so well suited to teasing out the narrative which has allowed abuse in this country to go undetected and ignored for so long. That requires someone who has direct experience with the subject matter of child exploitation and a solid understanding of victim and survivor culture. Professor Jay may well be able to offer the insight necessary to make the Inquiry much more efficient and potentially ground breaking.
We wish Professor Jay much luck and strength.
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Anyone reporting to the police ,child abuse by a social worker or Fosterer will nearly always be told to that police do not interfere when such allégations are made, and no statement will be taken despite protest from those who report it !
Time to change all that?????????
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As one who thought Prof. Jay would be a good choice, I feel encouraged by her appointment. But only time will tell. . . .
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A brilliant move which the legal establishment will hate as will those seeking to protecting themselves and their family self interest but after all the inquiry is looking at the role of the legal establishment in the over up Colin Smart
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If people really think Jay will allow the truth to be told of the child abuse then all need to think again, can one women really get past the police the SS and the rest of the bloody army who were supposedly all in a child’s best interest, just look back to Lady Macur who recently dismissed 700 abused victims, I will say again no child in this so called Britain is safe, Jay as the same as all past in a child’s best interest will be under orders from the big wigs DO AS WE SAY OR YOUR FIRED, but then British people are lambs to the slaughter and so are the likes of Macar Goddard many others and now Jay and the victims will continually go unheard and the kids in care NOW still being abused with NO WHERE TO TURN AND THE POLICE TURNING THEIR HEADS AWAY,
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Well said Maggie. Spot on as usual.
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The “SS” are child abusers for the most part either snatching them from loving and law abiding parents or even giving them to be abused by fosterers,social workers,guardians,and celebrities.The “SS” are simply when it boils down to it “child traffikers” ;the second oldest profession in the world !
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wish I could represent all of the poor abused victims or even better stand in the commons and tell them all what they already know but then I suppose the bloody MPs will send in the police as they did to me 2 years ago and marched me out at gunpoint, ahhaha were they so scared of an old dear, so if they did that to me I say again what chance has any victims got for justice or even the poor little kids being abused in the system TODAY.
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http://prepareforchange.net/2016/08/12/the-vatican-has-paid-close-to-4-billion-to-settle-child-molestation-lawsuits/
THE VATICAN HAS PAID CLOSE TO $4 BILLION TO SETTLE CHILD MOLESTATION LAWSUITS
August 12, 2016 by Edward Morgan
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ALEXA ERICKSON AUGUST 12, 2016
The reality of child molestation by the Roman Catholic Church has surfaced time and time again, and yet, somehow, it continues to happen. If you watched the movie Spotlight, perhaps you have an idea of just how things are going down. But let’s break it down to date.
While you can’t put a price on the innocence of a child, you can put a price on just how much the Roman Catholic Church has paid out in lawsuits over the never-ending epidemic of child molestation wreaking havoc in its ranks.
According to Jack and Diane Ruhl of the National Catholic Reporter, who decided to research this particular topic, since 1950, the Vatican has spent a disgusting $3,994,797,060.10. That’s nearly $4 billion to keep things hush hush. That number may even be a bit conservative, as we cannot know for sure the agreed upon “under the table” amount.
The figure is based on a three-month investigation of data, which includes a review of over 7,800 articles from LexisNexis Academic and NCR databases and information from BishopAccountability.org. Reports from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were also used.
If the amount of money dished out was divided evenly amongst the U.S.’s 197 dioceses, each one would get almost $20 billion. An incredible amount of cash from hard working people who support the good faith and intentions of the Church — people who are parents to little boys being sexually abused — is being used to cover up unfathomable crimes executed by priests.
In the early nineties, a monk who worked at the Vatican opened up to The New Yorker, admitting: “You wouldn’t believe the amounts of money the church is spending to settle these priestly sexual-abuse cases.” By 1992, U.S. Catholic dioceses had given 400 million dollars to settle hundreds of molestation cases. That was a shocking chunk of change then, and that figure has only risen exponentially since. The men running the Vatican are well aware of the problem, and yet they refuse to provide justice.
When Pope Francis addressed hundreds of bishops on the issue, he said:
I realize how much the pain of recent years has weighed upon you, and I have supported your generous commitment to bring healing to victims — in the knowledge that in healing we too are healed — and to work to ensure that such crimes will never be repeated.
His words of “generous commitment” only further show just how tightly knit the Church truly is — worried more about reputation than morality.
“The people he was talking to are the people who moved the pedophiles around to prey on kids,” said John Salveson, a 59-year-old Philadelphia businessman who was abused as a child by a priest. “If you gave me 100 years to pick a word to describe the U.S. bishops’ reaction to this crisis, ‘generous’ would never make the list.”
Terry McKiernan, who runs BishopAccountability.org, noted that Francis overlooked the fact that many dioceses around the country haven’t disclosed the names of abusers, and furthermore, continue to lobby against reforming statute of limitations laws that shield priests from prosecution for crimes from the past.
David Clohessy, executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, was once optimistic that Francis would push for change in how the Church handled the scandal, but has since lost hope. “There’s nothing he could say that would be helpful, because Catholic bishops have said it all before — ‘I’m sorry, we didn’t know, we’ll do better.’ We’ve heard that for decades,” he said. “This is a pope who has refused to take steps to expose one predator or punish one enabler. . . . He could simply defrock, demote, discipline, or even clearly denounce just one complicit bishop. He refuses, not one.”
Spanning many hundreds of years, children have suffered at the hands of child predators who remain safe in the authority and integrity of an honorable faith, yet organizations, investigators, reporters, etc. continue to raise awareness, while the Catholic Church continues their fight to block bills that would extend the statute of limitations for reporting sex abuse.
This Article First Appeared On: http://www.collective-evolution.com/
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