To The Editor
Last week The Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales was delivered.
"The protection of personal and institutional reputations above the protection of children was a frequent institutional reaction. Statutory agencies were not informed, perpetrators were ‘moved on’ and there were failures by those in authority to thoroughly investigate allegations. Records about child sexual abuse allegations were not kept."
This is a pattern familiar to all Irish, Australian, Canadian and American Survivors of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse, Magdalene Laundries, Mental Asylums, Boarding Schools, Day Schools, Adoption Services, Foster Homes, Care Homes and other institutional care settings.
It is also a pattern familiar to Rape survivors, Domestic Abuse Survivors and many others. Indeed, Jeremy Corbyn might be familiar with this cultural reactionary pattern.
The protection of status, image and financial interests of institutions over rides meeting the needs of those who were harmed. That is the pattern.
The publishing of this critically important report was completely over cast by the Conservatives "election-election-election!" soap opera dominating the news cycles in England.
It is true that there is a lot to contend with given the many crises we are all currently enduring.
Nonetheless, this report ought to send shock waves through English Society at large, just as similar Public Inquiries elsewhere have done. We ought be appalled at it's conclusions and be evermore determined to change that pattern to one of open, transparent accountability and a robust program of prevention of harm to children, and others rendered vulnerable by power disparity of any kind.
It is therefore both a tragedy and an act of supreme negligence that Labour leader Starmer and others in UK Parliament and indeed the News Media that they are not on the ball on this. One might have hope that 'lessons learned' in other cases might be applied here, but the outlook is not positive.
How can Irish society help our neighbours, across English society, to confront this cultural problem?
Kindest Regards
Corneilius Crowley
Corneilius Crowley
Harrow, London,
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