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| Subject: Re: "A bishop's remark, not parents' grief, opens old wounds" Editorial, The Age.
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Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:28:14 EST
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fasgnadh wrote in news:48834180$0$1023$afc38c87
@news.optusnet.com.au:
> How come you are more concerned with the Working Girls than the
> kiddie rapists and the corrupt hierarchy that protected them?
I'm concerned about lots of things. I am quite capable of being concerned
about kiddie .ers and the subtle .ism involved when people use the
term "working girl" as a euphemism for prostitute.
My solution to the former is simple: make it an offence not to report a
complaint about .ual misconduct to the police within 24 yours of
recieving it. Make the person who fails to pass on the information an
accessory after the fact to the crime itself AND a new crime of
conspiracy to conceal .ual misconduct. Make the penalty 12 months
remuneration, including fringe benefits and salary sacrificed benefits,
for the person concerned and ten times that for the organisation
concerned.
Further, cancel the Positive Notice Blue cards for *all* employees and
volunteers associated with the organisation until such time as they can
demonstrate it has implemented standards accredited procedures to ensure
all future complaints about .ual misconduct are handled appropriately.
Finally, require the organisation to prominently display signage
indicating this reduced child protection status at all public contact
points, on all correspondence and on all websites and advertisments until
the status is returned to normal.
In short make failure to deal with .ual misconduct complaints properly
a far more serious problem than being caught out sweeping them under the
carpet. By orders of magnitude.
Then we might see some real action against pedophiles in our
institutions.
--
David Moss
Personal opinion only
The Australian Politics Resource
http://politics.sunnybar.dynip.com |
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