I was recently engaged to provide expert witness testimony in a case involving historic child abuse. The incidents were said to have taken place in the late eighties and early nineties. The case rested on whether an organisation had acted in a reasonable way when they had been given information indicating that one of […]
Read More →The desire to establish what the reality of past safeguarding practice has been within a number of different Churches is a matter that has attracted a lot of recent attention. In some cases, it has been forced upon an unwilling Church leadership through pressure from their members or from external sources. This has led to […]
Read More →Recently the media has focused on the incidence of abuse in society and also specifically within the Catholic Church. Pope Francis mentioned in an interview that he gave to a reporter that he understood the incidence of paedophilia to be approximately 2% amongst the clergy in the Catholic Church worldwide. Many would regard this figure […]
Read More →When visiting India recently, I was struck by a story that appeared in a newspaper which described the outpouring of grief from residents in an apartment block in the city that I was staying in. The priests from a nearby Hindu temple held a gathering in the street to express the community’s condolences at the […]
Read More →The Role of Media and Child Protection: Transforming the Social Problem into a Public Issue May I begin by thanking you for the opportunity of addressing you this morning? It is both a pleasure and a privilege to be here in Bangalore and to have the chance to […]
Read More →