The figure of 4444 people reporting abuse at the hands of Catholic clerics between 1980 and 2015 has seemed staggering to some. I was surprised that people were so shocked.
It is important to note the figure only represents those who have come forward and reported their abuse to some 90-odd Catholic authorities.
The rule of thumb for police investigators like those from VicPol’s Sano Task Force, is for every victim who comes forward, at least four will not.
There are those victims who cannot come forward, who are deceased, their lives often ended by suicide or in a storm of recklessness.
There are others who won’t ever come forward. They may a feel a victim’s shame at the abuse they have suffered. More often they appreciate coming forward will come at significant personal cost, the prospect of family dislocation, the ugly business of clerical sexual abuse meeting religious clannishness.
What we can safely say is the real numbers of victims is much higher than the 4444 figure. We will never know the exact extent of it but a speculative figure somewhere north of 20,000 victims of clerical paedophilia since World War II is not an unreasonable one.
Full column here.
This drama in Canberra over Morrison dancing around the floor with a rock of coal, I thought it was soon to be thrown at Shorten.It would of been better use to jam it in the mouth of Christopher Pyne.
The same old adversarial games of play school continues having a significal impact of consequences of not capable of leading this country, that goes for both sides.Talk about a Hillary quote “a basket of deplorables” we have running this country and opposition no solutions , just simple bed-wetters in theatrical style on display.
So was that Morris dancing in parliament Rodent? the place is really going to pack!
Oh my Queensland $3460.00 per mwh/hr. NSW similar Forecast to go to $12,000. 00 per mwh/hr and $14,000 in NSW. Without renewable electricity is clearly more expensive. Double the price of SA. Queensland using Kerosene to meet requirements to back up coal. NSW gets 48 hours notice of load shedding.
Let’s see how things average out over the year shall we. A cold SA winter to come yet.
Get rid of the subsidisation of Private health insurance. Or Means test it much more tightly. Medicare is better value for money. Put the $7+ billion a year into Public health. Rebate costs to the budget will have risen 13% between 2014 – 2020 “In fact, in Australia’s case, private health insurance is likely raising overall health costs. This is because the high financial overhead of private insurance means that only 84 cents in every dollar collected by private insurers is returned as benefits, with the rest going to administrative costs and Corporate profits. By contrast Medicare returns 94 cents in the dollar, even after the cost of tax collection is taken into account”
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/02/time-national-debate-private-health-insurance/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20MacroBusiness&utm_content=Daily%20MacroBusiness+CID_9c9e6c13d59da16d64c513c80c2dc563&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Its%20time%20for%20a%20national%20debate%20on%20private%20health%20insurance
Off topic again. Chad Sayers for the SACA’s another 4 for 40 against the Vics today. Over 40 wickets this year in shield cricket again to date. Cant get a look in in any form for Australia. Pattinson has taken an early one for the Vics. in reply. Good to see him back. He got one of my picks Weatherald