Appears to have been almost entirely emasculated and in the throws of deteriorating into a massive and very expensive talking shop. All very luvvie no doubt and as a consequence almost entirely useless.
Many, perhaps most victims of CSA & CPA (child sexual abuse and child physical abuse) in government, religious and privately owned institutions want some form of financial compensation, partly because it may help to finance their recovery from all the lost years of and after their stolen childhood and partly because it is physical proof of belief and regret, but I believe what the vast majority really want is for their abusers to be thrown in prison for a very long time.
Recently a senior police officer was sentenced to twelve years in prison for sexually and physically abusing boys in their early teens in his care. Gordon Anglesea is a sadistic paedophile/pederast who gives the lie to every academic argument and there have been many in favour of paedophilia and pederasty. At Gordon Anglesea age twelve years is not so bad. He will be in a nice, safe open prison all bills paid and protected from every wind that blows, whatever compensation his victims are entitled to and its a lot will never be enough to compensate for the abuse they endured and it most certainly will not bring back the young man who committed suicide after the evil monster won a libel case against the magazine that publicly called him a paedophile.
Some people are fragile and they not Gordon Anglesea, are the ones I want to concentrate on here. The CSA Inquiry appears to be suffering more from an overwhelming presence of victims of abuse than from an absence of care and attention.
In spite of all the protestations most victims of CSA are not experts on paedophilia or CSA in general, at best the only thing they are expert of is their own suffering, they can't and shouldn't claim to know more than their own experience. Counselling for victims of CSA is a relatively new branch of counseling services. I think the truth if its ever told,, is that most professional counselors didn't give it a thought until about six years ago. Rape counseling is much older but the two share nothing more than a very tenuous link and to compensate for the lack of real expertise some victims of CSA have set themselves up as both counselors and advocates.
Really its very laudable and understandable but it may not be at all healthy. Some may have no more than their own experience to refer to and rely upon and some unscrupulous people may try to take advantage of wounded victims, some counselors appear to have links to lawyers who concentrate on the potentially lucrative compensation market and some may go so far as to try to insert their own experiences of child abuse onto the already wounded minds and emotions of other victims of abuse.
Its a messy, dangerous area and apparently either totally unpoliced or insufficiently policed, this is because its recognition is so recent rules and regulations are lagging behind, but rules and regulations are needed in this almost more than in any other area of sexual abuse and domestic violence abuse.
And its this area I believe is in danger of destroying the investigation into child sexual abuse. Its no good well meaning people giving time and authority to victims of abuse who basically are no more than experts of and witnesses to their own abuse. No two people are the same and no two people have the same indepth reaction to years of abuse, there are similarities but they are superficial only expert attention should be given to victims because every other has the potential to do more harm than good to people in crisis and also completely overlooks the, however unpleasant, fact that some victims of abuse do go on to become abusers and that is a very specialist area indeed.
Because of their abuse and very often because their claims of abuse have been ignored for years some victims become aggressive in their championing of what they believe victims need, these are possibly the most dangerous people hovering over the CSA Inquiry. The emotional and physical pain they endured can cloud the judgement of well meaning people to such an extent they subjugate their own experience and indeed common sense in attempting to be supportive and empathic toward noisy, aggressive victims.
The CSA Inquiry has lost its main lawyers. I was no supporter of Ben Emmerson and I still think he was a bit more of a bull in a china shop than was needed. Lowell Goddard was not a choice I agreed with either and now both have gone but the reasons they have gone appear to be at best murky and possibly for very good reason. Emmerson made it clear from the start he would not tolerate interference from so called victims panels and Lowell Goddard appears to have gone for when you read between the lines much the same reason.
The problem is the law doesn't and can't take sides no lawyer will take orders from a victim when the subject is the law and if any victim of abuse wants justice they have got to use the law to get it nothing else will work. For the CSA Inquiry to succeed victims of abuse must allow the lawyers to do their job, and this hasn't happened in the CSA Inquiry to the extent senior lawyers have packed their briefcases and gone, there might be a fleeting moment of victory for some very vocal victims and their supporters but the reality is its a major loss to the CSA Inquiry and will be felt most and hurt the victims of CSA more than any other if they see their allegations reduced to touchy feely ineffective comments in a very expensive talking shop
I think the CSA Inquiry as it is now formed will be ineffective and maybe counter productive. It should be abandoned and a new Inquiry formed that will keep victims at arms length so that real investigation can take place into the many institutions and VIP paedophiles who at the moment seem to be about to get off - again.
Many, perhaps most victims of CSA & CPA (child sexual abuse and child physical abuse) in government, religious and privately owned institutions want some form of financial compensation, partly because it may help to finance their recovery from all the lost years of and after their stolen childhood and partly because it is physical proof of belief and regret, but I believe what the vast majority really want is for their abusers to be thrown in prison for a very long time.
Recently a senior police officer was sentenced to twelve years in prison for sexually and physically abusing boys in their early teens in his care. Gordon Anglesea is a sadistic paedophile/pederast who gives the lie to every academic argument and there have been many in favour of paedophilia and pederasty. At Gordon Anglesea age twelve years is not so bad. He will be in a nice, safe open prison all bills paid and protected from every wind that blows, whatever compensation his victims are entitled to and its a lot will never be enough to compensate for the abuse they endured and it most certainly will not bring back the young man who committed suicide after the evil monster won a libel case against the magazine that publicly called him a paedophile.
Some people are fragile and they not Gordon Anglesea, are the ones I want to concentrate on here. The CSA Inquiry appears to be suffering more from an overwhelming presence of victims of abuse than from an absence of care and attention.
In spite of all the protestations most victims of CSA are not experts on paedophilia or CSA in general, at best the only thing they are expert of is their own suffering, they can't and shouldn't claim to know more than their own experience. Counselling for victims of CSA is a relatively new branch of counseling services. I think the truth if its ever told,, is that most professional counselors didn't give it a thought until about six years ago. Rape counseling is much older but the two share nothing more than a very tenuous link and to compensate for the lack of real expertise some victims of CSA have set themselves up as both counselors and advocates.
Really its very laudable and understandable but it may not be at all healthy. Some may have no more than their own experience to refer to and rely upon and some unscrupulous people may try to take advantage of wounded victims, some counselors appear to have links to lawyers who concentrate on the potentially lucrative compensation market and some may go so far as to try to insert their own experiences of child abuse onto the already wounded minds and emotions of other victims of abuse.
Its a messy, dangerous area and apparently either totally unpoliced or insufficiently policed, this is because its recognition is so recent rules and regulations are lagging behind, but rules and regulations are needed in this almost more than in any other area of sexual abuse and domestic violence abuse.
And its this area I believe is in danger of destroying the investigation into child sexual abuse. Its no good well meaning people giving time and authority to victims of abuse who basically are no more than experts of and witnesses to their own abuse. No two people are the same and no two people have the same indepth reaction to years of abuse, there are similarities but they are superficial only expert attention should be given to victims because every other has the potential to do more harm than good to people in crisis and also completely overlooks the, however unpleasant, fact that some victims of abuse do go on to become abusers and that is a very specialist area indeed.
Because of their abuse and very often because their claims of abuse have been ignored for years some victims become aggressive in their championing of what they believe victims need, these are possibly the most dangerous people hovering over the CSA Inquiry. The emotional and physical pain they endured can cloud the judgement of well meaning people to such an extent they subjugate their own experience and indeed common sense in attempting to be supportive and empathic toward noisy, aggressive victims.
The CSA Inquiry has lost its main lawyers. I was no supporter of Ben Emmerson and I still think he was a bit more of a bull in a china shop than was needed. Lowell Goddard was not a choice I agreed with either and now both have gone but the reasons they have gone appear to be at best murky and possibly for very good reason. Emmerson made it clear from the start he would not tolerate interference from so called victims panels and Lowell Goddard appears to have gone for when you read between the lines much the same reason.
The problem is the law doesn't and can't take sides no lawyer will take orders from a victim when the subject is the law and if any victim of abuse wants justice they have got to use the law to get it nothing else will work. For the CSA Inquiry to succeed victims of abuse must allow the lawyers to do their job, and this hasn't happened in the CSA Inquiry to the extent senior lawyers have packed their briefcases and gone, there might be a fleeting moment of victory for some very vocal victims and their supporters but the reality is its a major loss to the CSA Inquiry and will be felt most and hurt the victims of CSA more than any other if they see their allegations reduced to touchy feely ineffective comments in a very expensive talking shop
I think the CSA Inquiry as it is now formed will be ineffective and maybe counter productive. It should be abandoned and a new Inquiry formed that will keep victims at arms length so that real investigation can take place into the many institutions and VIP paedophiles who at the moment seem to be about to get off - again.
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