Friday, November 4, 2016

Will Organizations That Shield Pedophiles Now Have to Pay the Piper?

CHILD ABUSE VICTIMS SLATED TO RECEIVE $150,000
According to ABC News Australia, in a bold move, the Federal Government has announced a new compensation plan for victims of institutional child sexual abuse. 

 In recent years, the Royal Commission has uncovered much information into institutional handling of child molestation and has learned how policies have proven ineffective and failed to protect the innocent. If all goes according to plan, those who bear responsibility may be held accountable. 

"A fair, simple, and generous process for redress is the most significant thing that we can do for survivors of sexual abuse," Social Services Minister Christian Porter told Perth reporters.

As of August of last year, the Royal Commission Into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse released a report outlining 99 recommendations geared at addressing the ongoing care of victims, with the aim of compensation, counseling, and psychological care.

What is evident is how this compassionate approach eclipses the approach taken by the institutions involved, whose policies and handling of these matters has not only placed youngsters at risk but has led to predation of children and teens. 

And these same institutions, instead of making efforts at redress and offering compensatory damages to victims, have, in some cases, denied their own complicity, quick to cry "freedom of religion" when their harmful policies are questioned--but freedom of religion should never mean freedom to harm

Some have pointed fingers at other organizations, or while claiming they are deeply troubled and concerned, have offered little more than a show of words, seemingly more interested in extolling their own virtues and/or preserving their public image, rather than acting in victims' best interests and reaching out to those they failed to protect by offering tangible aid.

The Commission proposed that redress would be funded by the institutions where the abuse occurred. Learn more: Institutional child abuse victims to get up to $150k each under new compensation scheme

Let's hope this will help shape policy in the Americas. This could be groundbreaking and life-changing.

Child sex abuse survivors may get up to $150,000 in national compensation scheme

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