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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: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:38:05 -0700
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In article , David Moss
wrote:
> fasgnadh wrote in news:48834180$0$1023$afc38c87
> @news.optusnet.com.au:
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> > How come you are more concerned with the Working Girls than the
> > kiddie rapists and the corrupt hierarchy that protected them?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
• Undoing 900 years of the tradition of some priests having anal
intercourse with altar-boys is unlikely to take place overnight.
cheers D.M.
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