this may be heavy for survivors
The Experiences of Child Complainants of Sexual Abuse in the Criminal Justice System Dr Christine Eastwood Prof Wendy Patton - Queensland University of Technology "From a theoretical perspective, the report examines why decades of reform have achieved limited gains for Australian children, and why the criminal justice system remains the legally sanctioned context for the abuse of children....There is widespread agreement in the literature that child sexual abuse spans all races, economic classes and ethnic groups (Finkelhor, 1993, 1994; Goldman & Padayachi 1997; Oates, 1990; O'Donnell & Craney, 1982; Peters, Wyatt & Finkelhor, 1986). The prevalence of sexual abuse is so extensive that in "no sub-group is it clearly absent or rare" (Finkelhor, 1993, p 67). Internationally, epidemiological studies estimate prevalence rates of 7 to 36 per cent for females and 3 to 29 per cent for males (Finkelhor, 1994) and confirm that sexual abuse of children is an international problem. It is estimated that females are abused at one and half times to three times the rate for males (Finkelhor, 1994). According to Bagley (1995), three aspects are clear. The majority of perpetrators are male (in excess of 95 per cent) against male and female children. Around 80 per cent of the time, the offender is known to the child, and a third of sexual offenders are themselves adolescents. Across all studies it is clear that only about half of the young victims disclosed the abuse to anyone (Finkelhor, 1994; Fleming, 1997). Further compounding the ability of the justice system to prosecute these cases is evidence that for every child who does report, three to five cases are not being reported (Finkelhor, 1991)." http://www.aic.gov.au/crc/reports/eastwood.pdf
three from L Moss Sharman Child-sex law in rare test 01/21/03 By Tony Stickley "The man, who has name suppression, is facing around 36 sex charges for acts allegedly committed in this country and on one of the Pacific Islands. Eight young complainants are involved, six of them boys. Some of the counts are laid under a section of the Crimes Amendment Act that was introduced in 1995 to stamp out sex tours by New Zealanders to places such as Thailand and the Philippines. It means the same penalties can be imposed as if the offences were committed in this country. Under the legislation, people who organise sex tours to exploit overseas youngsters can also be jailed for up to seven years." http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3097102&thesection=news&thesubsection=general
Albany Diocese Quietly Paid Man Who Pressed Abuse Claim by Daniel J. Wakin "Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany quietly paid more than $225,000 last year to a sexual abuse victim who was pressing further allegations that priests from the diocese had molested him when he was a boy. The man and the diocese disagree on whether the money was intended to end his claims and keep him quiet, or was the charitable work of a church assisting a member in need." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/nyregion/19BISH.html
Church has yet to unfrock jailed paedophile priests by Ruth Gledhill and Dominic Kennedy 1/20/03 "The convicted serial paedophile Michael Hill is still a priest and moves to unfrock him began only a year ago...Hill was first jailed in 1997 for sexually abusing nine boys, but the papers to strip him of the priesthood were not sent to the Vatican until last January." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-548509,00.html
http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/Willthomas/action/NotInOurName.htm
WORLDWIDE PROTESTS SEND STRONG MESSAGE TO BUSH: "NOT IN OUR NAME" by William Thomas 1/19/03 Braving bitter cold, as many as a half-million Americans rallied outside their nation's Capitol yesterday to tell an unelected President that he did not have the permission of Americans to wage war in their name. Their ranks swollen by anti-war veterans and many more formerly quiet Americans who never before participated in a public protest, as many as one million people voted with their feet in cities around the world to say "No" to imminent war by the United States government against Iraq.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,877203,00.html
Car wars The US economy needs oil like a junkie needs heroin - and Iraq will supply its next fix Ian Roberts Saturday January 18, 2003
War in Iraq is inevitable. That there would be war was decided by North American planners in the mid-1920s. That it would be in Iraq was decided much more recently. The architects of this war were not military planners but town planners. War is inevitable not because of weapons of mass destruction, as claimed by the political right, nor because of western imperialism, as claimed by the left. The cause of this war, and probably the one that will follow, is car dependence. The US has paved itself into a corner. Its physical and economic infrastructure is so highly car dependent that the US is pathologically addicted to oil. Without billions of barrels of precious black sludge being pumped into the veins of its economy every year, the nation would experience painful and damaging withdrawal.
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