Hat tip to Julian Whiting, a dedicated gentleman who works on trying to highlight systematic child abuse within the church for alerting us to this event, which takes place on Friday 27th January.
Survivors’ organisations and specialist abuse lawyers have become so concerned about the level of abuse and the way these incidents are being ignored that they have come together to set up this meeting for interested groups. Organised by Jordans Solicitors, and supported by MACSAS, the aim of the meeting is to gather support for the purpose of getting government to open up a public enquiry into this area. The enquiry would look at the extent of abuse in recent decades, the level of cover-ups and new legislation to safeguard children and adults who turn to the church. This meeting is also supported by the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers.
The agenda for the meeting is as follows:
AGENDA
(Chair – David Greenwood – Jordans Solicitors)
- Welcome and Introduction
- Richard Scorer of Pannone LLP
(To summarise the media interest and political response)
- Anne Lawrence of MACSAS
(Evidence of the inability of church organisations to regulate themselves and responses in other jurisdictions)
- Sue Cox of Survivorsvoice-europe.org
(Survivor perspectives)
- Contributions from the floor
- Motion to empower a working party to:-
a) Gather more evidence
b) Make political connections
c) Start a media campaign, etc.
- Close (approximately 3– 3.30 pm)
This is a public event, but if you wish to go, please do send an email to David Greenwood, who is a partner at Jordans, at David.greenwood@jordanssolicitors.co.uk. You can also get hold of David on the phone, Tel: 07770 741 407 or 01924 868911. The event takes place on Friday 27th January 2012 at 1.30 pm – Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square , London , WC1R 4RL . If you are unable to attend but are interested in this area, Jordans would really appreciate an email stating your support.
The meeting is supported by:
- Association of Child Abuse Lawyers
- MACSAS (Ministry and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors)
- Survivorsvoice-europe.org
The direct abuse of children by Priests, Ministers, and other churchmen is only a part of the ways in which organised religious cults have abused children and young people over the last century and before, and is still happening.
I hope this meeting also considers the other abuses carried out against children who were used as slave labour in (Magdalen) laundries, the young girls whose babies were stolen from them for adoption, the young girls and mothers who were drugged and raped by Priests, of mothers and children ordered by Priests to return to violent, abusive fathers, and the children who were deported overseas into abusive situations and used as slaves.
It should also be examined how such religious cults benefitted financially from their abusive activities. How many churches were built in large part from the monies gained from exploiting children and mothers in the ways described?.
The widespread abuses and exploitations of young girls, mothers, and children by male leaders of religious cults, sometimes assisted by willing female accomplices, should be exposed in their totality.
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“Suffer the little Children to come unto me” – So we (religious cults) can abuse and exploit them and make money from such activities.
All in the name of their God. Only those who condone and collude with them now enter the portals of their churches.
Might I add that other religious cults and sects should also come under scrutiny and exposure. Those which mutilate girls and boys by circumcision, who order young girls (some as young as 8 years) into marriages with adults within their sects, who murder mothers who engage in adultery thereby depriving her children of their mother, and who murder young girls who engage in relationships outside of their sects.
And the many other atrocities which these religious sects and cults carry out against children and mothers.
Well said Jarl.
I also hope that exorcism-carried out by Catholic church on child witches- strong females- ( not the prayer version either)- but the cruel torturing of the child’s spine and body is also addressed;
Let us all bring the truth re this cult to light in 2012.
The brainwashing goes on to this very day from birth to death.
How any adult could dream of remaining part of such a cult is beyond me, but they still attend the ceremonies.
I also note the church uses its position as tax free and has trillions in off shore accounts.
Dear Portia, please forgive the editing of your comment. We had to do this for legal reasons.
I totally understand Natasha.
These are all human rights issues and examples of human rights abuses and atrocities committed by religious cults. They should properly be investigated as Crimes against Humanity by the European Human Rights Commission as such occurrences have been widespread throughout Europe for centuries.
Until this is done and the whole ideological base of these cults is fully examined and how such ideologies are creating this abuse and violations of children and mothers, then it will continue in one form or another. The present approach is focussing on the abuses of individuals but there are systemic causes as was shown by how the hierarchies of those cults protected the abusers, blamed the victims, and sought to maintain secrecy of those occurrences and incidents by offering relatively small sums of money for their silence.
It was not simply the actions of a few errant members of those cults, but was a organisational culture of abuse, following their insistence on obedience and subjugation to their will (the religious leaders) and based on the inculcation of fear and individual guilt.
I am so pleased Jarl to see the truth brilliantly verbalised by you.
There are many examples to show the abuse and torture of innocent children and women continues with the appointment by the pope of hundreds of Exorcist priests to drive out the Eve ill from women and children especially in Africa.
http://thecatholicfaith.blogspot.com/2008/01/popes-exorcist-squads-will-wage-war-on.html
This actually shows the spreading of the abuse and torture of beautiful souls.
Have we forgotten the removal of 85% of Indigenous children in America and their stripping of all humanity and identity- hair, clothes, name, spirituality etc.,, all in the name of god.” What god exactly?
How can the Pope appoint hundreds of these men to torture innocent souls and no one lift a finger.?
And the genocide of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans to Spanish invaders because they would not convert to Catholicism or succumb to European `civilisation’. Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein had several examples to follow in mass kilings by the leaders of religious cults and sects.
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