-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors
Orders have let abusers remain - But leader predicts ban on public ministry for offenders 08/08/02 - By Reese Dunklin and Brooks Egerton "Nearly a decade ago, after sexual-abuse allegations first surfaced at a Franciscan boarding school in California, leaders of that religious order bowed to demands for an outside investigation. Its conclusion: One-fourth of the priests and brothers who worked there over a 23-year period had molested students." http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/080802dnproorder.481a6.html This may be very heavy for survivors Devotion and Deceit - 8/7/02 "Over the last decade, more than 100 nuns have been accused of molesting children." Leading experts on clergy abuse, and an author of a book on abusive nuns, say over the years they have been contacted by more than 100 people who claim nuns sexually abused them. In addition, abuse scandals at orphanages in New England and across Canada have resulted in more than 100 out-of-court settlements stemming from sexual and physical abuse. http://www.timesofacadiana.com/html/5A362B9D-BB7E-424B-A880-B9D65F2A3434.shtml from Lynne Moss-Sharman Healing the abusers - Treatment is vital in preventing paedophiles reoffending. David Batty 8/8/02 http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,770972,00.html Health - Reuters Child Abuse Linked to Behavioral Problems in Teens 8/7/02 New York (Reuters Health) - "The effects of early-childhood abuse appear to last well into the teen years, and abused youngsters go on to miss more school and have more emotional and behavioral problems than other children, researchers report." Source: Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 2002;156:824-830 US Child Abuse Deaths Sharply Underestimated: Study 8/5/02 By Charnicia E. Huggins - New York (Reuters Health) - "Many children's death certificates do not correctly list abuse, neglect or other forms of maltreatment as the cause of death, Colorado researchers report. Because of this child abuse deaths may be more common than current figures indicate, their study suggests. Child abuse is underrecognized as a problem in the United States," Tessa Crume, an epidemiologist at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment...The study was partially funded by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Source: Pediatrics 2002;110:e18." http://www.reutershealth.com this may be very heavy for survivors Boy's Death Follows Priest - Alleged Abuse Victims Questioned About A 30-Year-Old Homicide 8/8/02 By Roselyn Tantraphol, Courant Staff Writer "Springfield -- Suspicion has shadowed the Rev. Richard R. Lavigne since a 13-year-old Springfield altar boy was found...on the banks of the Chicopee River 30 years ago. Now, with seven new sexual abuse lawsuits filed against Lavigne, his name has surfaced once again in connection with the unsolved killing." http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-priestsuit0808.artaug08.story?coll=3Dh=c%2D headlines%2Dhome=20 this may be very heavy for survivors www.zmag.org One Year On In Afghanistan by Robert Fisk "President George Bush's "war on terror" reached the desert village of Hajibirgit at midnight on 22 May. Haji Birgit Khan, the bearded, 85-year-old Pushtu village leader and head of 12,000 local tribal families, was lying on a patch of grass outside his home. Faqir Mohamed was sleeping among his sheep and goats in a patch of sand to the south when he heard "big planes moving in the sky". Even at night, it is so hot that many villagers spend the hours of darkness outside their homes, although Mohamedin and his family were in their mud-walled house. There were 105 families in Hajibirgit on 22 May, and all were woken by the thunder of helicopter engines and the thwack of rotor blades and the screaming voices of the Americans" "But there was a far greater tragedy to confront the men when they reached Hajibirgit. In their absence – without guns to defend the homes, and with the village elder dead and many of the menfolk prisoners of the Americans – thieves had descended on Hajibirgit. A group of men from Helmand province, whose leader is Abdul Rahman Khan – once a brutal and rapacious "mujahid" fighter against the Russians, and now a Karzai government police commander – raided the village once the Americans had taken away so many of the men. Ninety-five of the 105 families had fled into the hills, leaving their mud homes to be pillaged....Who told the US to raid the village? Who told them that the Taliban leadership and the al-Qa'ida leadership were there? Was it, perhaps, Abdul Rahman Khan, the cruel police chief whose men were so quick to pillage the mud-walled homes once the raid was over? For today, Hajibirgit is a virtual ghost town, its village leader dead, most of its houses abandoned. The US raid was worthless. There are scarcely 40 villagers left." <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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