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- Child Abuse Royal Commission Case Study 25 (Or: A Few Thoughts About Redress) March 20, 2015
- David Shoebridge’s 3-Point Reform Package for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse (Or: Tear Down Those Walls) March 19, 2015
- Australian Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson Charged (Or: Touchdown!) March 17, 2015
- Bilgrimage Article on a US Inquiry into Child Abuse November 4, 2014
- Victims and Lawyers (Or: He Who Pays the Piper …) September 9, 2014
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Tag Archives: Christian Brothers
Salvation Army Fails in Response to Lewis Blayse’s Family (Or: I Hear Sunbury Court’s Lovely This Time of Year)
On 11 April, I wrote to several high-ranking members of the Salvation Army Australia and elsewhere explaining how it could respond appropriately to the matter of compensation for the family of Lewis Blayse, my father. In this, I indicated a willingness … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Cox, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Australian Salvation Army Media and Communications Office, Bindoon Farm School, Bruce Redman, Case Study 10 hearings, Case Study 11, Castledare Junior Orphanage, child abuser, Christian Brothers, Colin Haggar, Congregation of Christian Brothers, David Godkin, employment discrimination, James Condon, Lewis Blayse, Luke Geary, paedophiles, Peter Farthing, Richard Munn, Salvation Army, Salvation Army (Eastern Territory), Salvation Army Australia, Salvation Army Chief Secretary and Territorial Secretary for Women's Ministries, Salvation Army Children’s Homes, Salvation Army homeless shelter, Salvos Legal, Secretary for Personnel, St Mary’s Agricultural School Tardun, St Vincent’s Orphanage Clontarf, Sunbury Court, Western Australia
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Algate Boys’ Home (Or: Do As You’re Told)
While the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse’s next hearings (beginning 28th January) will cover two Queensland and two NSW Boys’ Home, operated by the Salvation Army, there are many others not being covered. One of … Continue reading
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Tagged Algate House Boys’ Home, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Bindoon, Care Leavers of Australia Network (CLAN), Catholic Church, child migrants, Christian Brothers, Irish child migrants, Irish inquiry child abuse, Kevin Stace, Leonie Sheedy, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Malta child migrants, Peter McClellan, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Alkira Boys’ Home, Salvos, UK child migrants
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Some Victorian Victims’ Comments (Or: Real Voices)
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will resume hearings tomorrow. It will be the third “case study”, and will focus on Allan Kitchingman (see previous posting) against the background of events at the North Coast … Continue reading
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Tagged Adults Surviving Child Abuse, Allan Kitchingman, Andrea Coote, Andrea Lockhart, Anglican Church North Coast Children’s Home, Anthony Foster, Australian (Victorian State Government) Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Ballarat Centre Against Sexual Assault, Broken Rites, Bryan Keon-Cohen, Cardinal George Pell, cassock of silence, Catholic Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Church, Catholic Church’s PR Unit, children's homes, Chrissie Foster, Christian Brother Robert Best, Christian Brothers, Clare Leaney, Commission of Inquiry Now (COIN), Dr Cathy Kezelman, Emma Foster, Father Kevin O’Donnell, Francis Sullivan, George Pell, In Good Faith and Associates, John McNally, Justice and Healing Council, Katie Foster, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Manny Waks, Mick Serch, North Coast Children's Home, Olivia Monaghan, Ombudsman, Peter Blenkiron, Queen Street Primary School, Salvation Army, St Leo’s College Box Hill, Stephen Woods, tax exemptions, Tony Abbott, Truth, Victorian Inquiry, Yeshiva College
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St Catherine’s Children’s Home (Or: In-House Paedophile)
Image: St. Catherine’s Girls Orphanage The St. Catherine’s Girls Home, at Geelong in Victoria, is yet another of the old Children’s Homes worthy of new look by the Australian Royal Commission into child sexual abuse. There are two main reasons … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Catholic Church, Christian Brothers, Fr. Bernard Maxwell Day, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, mandatory reporting, mandatory reporting laws, Melbourne Response, Mother Aquin, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of St Joseph, St. Catherine’s Girls Home, St. Catherine’s Girls Home Geelong, St. Catherine’s Girls Orphanage, Towards Healing, Victorian Professional Standards Office
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Brisbane Grammar School (Or: One Wrong Plus One Wrong Makes Two Wrongs)
The spotlight on paedophile clergy is gradually widening to encompass those who protected them. In particular, debate is increasing on the issue of failure to report the crime of child sexual abuse. Some jurisdictions exempt the churches from this requirement, … Continue reading
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Tagged (Australian New South Wales Government) Special Commission of Inquiry into Matters Relating to the Police Investigation of Certain Child Sexual Abuse Allegations in the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Ne, Australian (Victorian State Government) Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Boy Scouts, Brisbane Anglican St. Paul’s school, Brisbane Grammar School, Cardinal George Pell, Christian Brothers, Domus Australia, George Pell, Gilbert Case, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Maxwell Howell, misprison of a felony, New South Wales Inquiry, NSW Inquiry, Ohio approach, Peter Hollingworth, Rev. Kevin Lynch, Victorian Inquiry
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The Maltese Connection (Or: The Forgotten Children of Malta)
Image: Malta’s Child Migrant Memorial (Source: Times of Malta http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100509/letters/abused-maltese-child-migrants.306450) Malta was a source of “child migrants” to Australia. Most attention has been placed on the child migrants from the U.K., largely because there were 7,000 from the U.K. and … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Bindoon, Castledare Junior Orphanage, Catholic Church Children’s Homes, Child Migrants of Malta, Christian Brothers, Clontarf Boys’ Town, Dr. Cachia Zammit, Lawrence Gonzi, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Malta, Maltese Child Migrants, Nazareth House Geraldton, Ocean Triumph, Paul Cremona, Philip Calleja, Professor David Plowman, Sisters of Nazareth, Spanish Benedictine Monks, St. Joseph’s Trade and Farm School, St. Mary’s Agricultural School, Tardun, Valetta Grand Harbour
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Castledare Boys’ Home (Or: Shoveling Asbestos)
Image: The Castledare Boys’ Home is now a retirement home for priests http://dynamic.architecture.com.au/awards_search?option=showaward&entryno=20046002 The Castledare Boys’ Home was one of the notorious facilities operated by the Christian Brothers in Western Australia. Like the others (Bindoon,Tradum and Clontarf), it is worthy of renewed … Continue reading
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Tagged asbestos, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Castledare Boys’ Home, Castledare Model Railway, Christian Brothers, Christopher Wagland, Irish child migrants, Lawrence Gonzi, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, mesothelioma, Norman Holmes, Robert Vojakovich, Voices
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Northern Ireland’s Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (Or: Ireland Calling)
The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry in Northern Ireland is the latest of five child abuse enquiries there. It is particularly relevant to Australia in that it will include Irish children sent here as “child migrants” (see previous posting). It … Continue reading
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Tagged Amnesty International, Bindoon, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Cardinal George Pell, child migrants, Christian Brothers, Domus Australia, Forde Inquiry, George Pell, HIA, HIA inquiry, Ireland, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Magdalene Laundry, Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Enquiry, Queensland Government Forde Enquiry, United Nations Committee Against Torture
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Brother Kearney, the Perfect (Or: Once Upon a Time…)
Image source: http://www.elitetours.net.au (Bindoon, main administration building) Bindoon Boys’ Town head, Fr. Paul Francis Kearney was a Christian Brother who died in 1954. As previous postings have noted, he was an alleged sadist and paedophile. To his Order, the Catholic … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Murray, Bindoon, Bindoon Boys' Town, Brother Kearney, Brother Nick Bilich, Brother Paul Francis Kearney, Brother Sebastian Quilligan, C-BERS, Catholic Agricultural College Bindoon, child migrants, child migration, Christian Brothers, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse
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Brother Francis Paul Keaney, the Abuser (Or: Spare the Rod? No Way!)
Image above: Construction of the administration building at Bindoon, 1952. Brother Kearney, of Bindoon notoriety, was a saint to the Catholic Church and a monster to the boys placed in his “care”. The Catholic Church erected a huge statue of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Murray, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, “Lost Innocents: Righting the Record – Report on Child Migration”, Bindoon, Bindoon Boys' Town, Brother Edward Bryan, Brother Kearney, Brother Kearney statue, Brother Paul Francis Kearney, Catholic Church child sexual abuse, child migrants, child migration, Christian Brothers, Christian Brothers child sexual abuse, Edmund House, John Hennessy, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse
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