Informative Article-The Guardian: Police expect 30,000 new child abuse reports from Goddard inquiry

by AndersonsInfo 19 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

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  AndersonsInfo

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/19/child-sex-abuse-police-expect-30000-goddard-inquiry-cases

  Police expect 30,000 new child abuse reports from Goddard inquiry

  Sandra Laville

  Thursday 19 May 2016 14.42 EDT Last modified on Friday 20 May 2016 03.09 EDT

  Exclusive: Extent of child sexual abuse in England and Wales begins to become clear as inquiry passes on 100 cases a month.

  The scale of child sexual abuse in England and Wales is being exposed by evidence from thousands of victims, with cases being passed to police at a rate of 100 a month by the public inquiry set up following the Jimmy Savile scandal.

  Simon Bailey, head of the national coordinating unit Operation Hydrant, said his team was expecting to be given 30,000 reports of new child sexual offences by the end of the Goddard inquiry, and predicted the rate of referrals of allegations of abuse would increase.
  

  Reports of child abuse to forces across the country are continuing to rise, said Bailey, who is the chief constable of Norfolk. He calculated that the continuing increase would mean that by 2020 police across the country would be investigating 200,000 cases of child sexual abuse.
  

  Bailey added: “It is fair to say I am surprised by the extent of abuse being exposed, it is shocking. In trying to get a message across to the public about the scale of this, it is important to remember that behind each of these figures there is a victim.

  “We are seeing a significant rise in the number of referrals each month from the Goddard inquiry, and these allegations relate to abuse in a range of institutions from the church, to schools, the scouts and hospitals.” READ MORE

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/19/child-sex-abuse-police-expect-30000-goddard-inquiry-cases
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  Vidiot

  Something tells me the WTS really dodged a bullet back when the 80s witch-hunts started up.
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  Village Idiot

  Are the British authorities going to follow the methods of the Australian Commission by focusing on each institution like the Catholic church as well as the JWs?

  Also, considering England's population being 3 times larger than Australia, I would guess that they would have about three times the number of cases (3,000) that Australia has.
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  Vidiot

  @ Village Idiot...

  If the Brits don't follow the Aussie template, they're idiots.
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  Simon

  I'd be surprised if they didn't follow the same pattern - most of the major commonwealth countries are mirrors of the UK legal system so it's not inconceivable that the same thing will play out.

  The WTS probably know what's coming and how guilty they are - that may be why they are liquidating assets when the can now vs what they would get if they were forced to sell (and buyers knew they didn't have to pay so much).
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  Dagney

  Holy Macanoli!

  And until this is sorted, and the corporation commits to changing their policy regarding victims, they should lose their status with the Charity Commission. IMHO. One can dream...
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  cofty

  they should lose their status with the Charity Commission - Dagney

  There is a separate inquiry being held by the Charity Commission into the Watchtower's child welfare policies and procedures in England. They lost an appeal at the High Court to have the inquest stopped. The Charity Commission are asking for victims to talk to them.

  No wonder the JWs are being indoctrinated not to trust the media.
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  Dagney

  ^^^^Excellent!

  (I really hate them today for some reason...)
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  defender of truth

  @Vidiot

  @Simon

  As in Australia, Northern Ireland, Jersey and Scotland, the level of public concern has resulted in calls for an overarching inquiry to look at the big picture, to learn the lessons of the past, to take stock of child protection procedures that are currently in operation, and to set a new course for the future.

  In conducting its work, the Inquiry is liaising with the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse, with the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry, with the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in Northern Ireland, and with the Scottish Inquiry into Historical Abuse of Children in Care. Together the inquiries have much to learn from each other.

  https://www.iicsa.org.uk/about-us/background
  

  The jw organisation is not part of the main investigations at this point, they are focusing on the Anglican and Catholic churches. I have emailed them to ask them to look at JW's, but they may not have time in their schedule.

  They are open to looking into other organisations though, in the future, so who knows?

  These 13 investigations constitute the first phase of the Inquiry’s work and further investigations will be announced as the Inquiry progresses.

  https://www.iicsa.org.uk/investigations

  To anybody reading this..

  If anyone wants to share information with the Inquiry regarding how abuse is handled within the org, or maybe ask them if they might be able to look at the Jehovahs Witnesses next, you can do so confidentially.

  "If you wish to ask a question about the Inquiry or if you have information to support our investigations please get in touch:
  

  https://www.iicsa.org.uk/contact-us
  

  Or if you want to help by sharing your experience.

  Share your experience

  Sharing your information will help us to investigate how institutions failed to protect children from sexual abuse. This part of our work is called the Truth Project. Watch our Truth Project video to find out more about how the Inquiry will work.
  

  We want to hear from:
  

  anyone who was sexually abused as a child in an institutional setting like a care home, a school or a religious, community or state organisation, or who first came into contact with their abuser in an institutional setting
  

  anyone who was sexually abused as a child, and reported their sexual abuse to a person in authority, like a police officer or teacher, where the report was ignored or not properly acted on

  https://www.iicsa.org.uk/share-your-experience
  
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  Vidiot

  Dagney - "...they should lose their status with the Charity Commission. IMHO. One can dream."

  In the US at least, the IRS revokes the tax-exempt status of approximately 100 different groups per year, for various violations.

  I think that's in the cards for the WTS in a lot of western countries in the near future.

  So it's definitely not an unrealistic dream.