BGS, GT, BBC, ACGS, NC, IGS & TSS, … BSHS & TGS seem to âsavedâ?! Each of the other Private Schools/Colleges within Queenslandâs GPS competitions have been dealing with higher amounts of CSA, than comparative (coed) Brisbane State High & apparently TGS. Perhaps some of the previously same-gender schools/colleges have been allowing coed into early years, male/female only has involved increases in CSA occurrence.
Similar to allowance of low-SES culture into Private Schools/Colleges, disbanding these permissions has been introduced at some of these locations. There may have been rises in some International Students. Has this solved the situation, or âmoved the targetâ? Again, time will tell – yet any responses from our readers is WELCOME! Whatâs more precious, reputation of the school, or safety of our children?
After Australiaâs July 2020 weekend of âBlack Lives Matterâ, ABCâs Afternoon Briefing had Patricia Karvelas interviewing US Prof. Goff (sp.?). For many Survivours of Child Sexual Abuse, much of these debates have carried the same passion as what weâve felt throughout our lives. Ignorance & turning attention away from are even spoken against in the bible. School lessons. Child care. Sports practice. School camps. A pattern forming…?
Black Lives Matter
JOE MCKENDRY
News of Jeffery Epstein also forms âfront page newsâ, including parts of the British Royal Family, upper levels of US & International society. At the targeted end of this game are low income, low SES (socio economic status) population & young adults/teenagers. Suitably, Australiaâs Judicial System has begun to publicly deal with more allegations following 2013-17 CARC. Highest of these has been George Pell. Sound familiar…?
From the topics presented since 2013, this RoyalCommBBC.blog has aimed to republish noteworthy journalism, factually-based info & âthe other side of the coinâ POV. We donât claim to be a Journalistic Reference to prove legal data; it isnât to be used as an excuse or a bet; links can be arranged with suitable portals, where need be; as are related channels, following earlier BBC involvement of later âguiltyâ Nudgee College staff. A later post will be arranged re: queries of Overlack. Seems too surreal…?
Amongst most of the comments during and after the screening of 4Corners âBoys Clubâ, some past Students and Family of other Private Schools may recognise similarities. Beyond each schoolâs personal reputation and heritage, many strive to have common traits ingrained into their students. Whether this be for academic-sporting-cultural benefit, sometimes included is acceptance of behaviours found unacceptable in aged maturity. This is where the prevalence of âdeveloping teenagersâ (pre-adolescents) are often targeted by Grooming, Personal-Training/Coaching and Private-Reversals.
Younger children follow patterns of secrecy, imposed by Predators
How much has already been hidden, by non-disclosure agreements (NDAâs) / payments of âhush moneyâ / Deed of releases? To what extent will some of these occasions be acting against the intentions of the Letters Patent of the 2013-17 Royal Commission? Oh what a tangled web has been woven, through all of these attempts at Justice.
CARC Final Report
To anyone effected by these ongoing CSA matters, help is available to all:
Redress +/or Personal Settlements;
Public apology;
Counselling.
Further information is available, including suggestions from other bodies. Surviving-victims should never be alone, which is motivation to force along these RCbbc Blogâs. It is hoped that similar support groups, from about other communities (e.g. St Kevins) could share a similar passion.
Prestigious Melbourne school Trinity Grammar has paid out more than $1 million to a former student for the historical sexual abuse he suffered.
John Turner, abused in 1974 when he was 16 by boarding master Leslie Wiggins, said he felt vindicated.
âIt makes me feel whole again. It makes me feel like a person. I never felt adequate as an adult, I always felt I was hopeless,â he said.
John Turner says he feels vindicated after a $1 million settlement with Trinity Grammar. CREDIT: SIMON SCHLUTER
âThe feelings of inadequacy and extreme anxiety have been present with me my entire life since the sixth form.â
Mr Turner, now 62, was sent to Trinity as a 14-year-old, moving from Papua New Guinea where his step-father was the vice chancellor of its university.
Boarding school life in Melbourne was at first fun and full of mischief in the shadow of some of their masters who Mr Turner described as a âprocession of weirdos and oddballs who came and went”.
The boys would make jokes amongst themselves when they knew they were being watched in the showers by one master, and Wiggins, the assistant school chaplain, was known to have âliked little boys.â
Wiggins targeted Mr Turner after he and his friends were caught smoking marijuana. Awaiting to hear whether he’d be expelled, Wiggins came into Mr Turner’s bedroom at night on the pretext of wanting to help him. Wiggins assaulted him twice before the teenager asked to be moved into a shared dormitory.
John Turner, pictured here when he was 15 years old.
Mr Turner told his sister, then his father found out and called a meeting with headmaster John Leppitt, who asked Mr Turner to leave the boarding house. Mr Turner didnât fight back.
âI felt that I was saving my fellow boarders from a disastrous outcome because theyâd been threatened with expulsion and Iâd been told I was the ringleader. They were country boys so if they were expelled, it would have been life-long shame,â Mr Turner said.
Mr Turner left the boarding house to live with his father in Richmond, and he said he was thrown into the âabyssâ. He started an arts/law degree at Monash University, and his father had plans for him to go into politics. But riddled with anxiety, he couldnât finish the degree and lurched from job to job. He now runs his own cleaning business.
âI could never hold a job down and itâs almost a direct result of that. I would just get restless,â he said.
Mr Turner said he chose to go public in an effort to try and get in touch with his school friends, as well as a close friend from Ruyton Girls’ School who was assaulted by a Trinity master.
Leslie Wiggins, pictured in The Mitre, the Trinity Grammar year book.
âI donât know whatâs happened to them in their lives and I want them to know I was trying to protect them,â he said.
By coming forward, Mr Turner also had to disclose to his wife what had happened to him as a boy.
âIt was difficult, but she has always been very supportive. She was terrific. And for her it explains a lot,â he said.
âNow that Iâve told everyone, Iâm not ashamed of it.â
Wiggins was convicted in 1991 of indecently assaulting three boys on the Mornington Peninsula. He died several years ago.
Mr Turner praised the schoolâs current administration for their handling of his claim.
âRight from the start, they accepted responsibility,â he said.
School council chairman John Gillam said historical cases of child sex abuse has darkened Trinityâs history, but the school was committed to ensuring support and action for those affected.
âWe are deeply sorry that these abuses have occurred. The school will not forget nor underestimate the impact these historical incidents have had,â Mr Gillam said.
Rightside Legal senior associate Laird Macdonald, who represented Mr Turner, said institutions are âslowly waking up to the devastating consequences of child abuse and the compensation they have to pay to deal with this dreadful legacy”.
Trinity signed up to the redress scheme in 2018 and Mr Macdonald said, had his client gone through that system, he would have received a maximum $150,000 in compensation.
The way the school dealt with Mr Turnerâs claim signals a shift in a school that had struggled to grapple with historical abuse claims.
This came to a head when allegations were made against a once revered school figure, Christopher Howell, who taught at Trinity for more than 40 years.
Howell took his own life before he was due to face court on an indecent assault charge, and, even though they knew about the allegations, former headmaster Dr Michael Davies and his deputy Rohan Brown penned a tribute calling him a hero.
Already (midday Fri 25.01.20), thereâs an expected amount of Visitors compared to all of last wk. Coupled with the delicate tensions of our growing amount of CSA viewers, this annual event is carrying greater strain through our Aboriginal Indigenous Communities, and the publicised split of the British Royal Family – Meghan-Prince Harry situation. #megxit #InvasionDay #AustraliaDay
Australia Day or Invasion Day?
Following our recent sharing of info on the targeting of lowSES Enrolments, relevant trends of International ESL (English as Second Language) Students is also planned to be Shared. During searching + conversations, this seems to be largely unearthed Issue. Extensive information is available, due to the immense School, Education + Government worth; yet the negative outcomes have typically been overlooked.
Outside BBQ at daytime dining for Rudd House Boarders
Not anymore. As will be other overlooked, or unaddressed issues of Indigenous, rural + remote Enrolments (remember Rudd House Borders đŻ ?).
Over the weekend before Australia Day (Fri-Mon 17-20 Jan 20) there was a dramatic leap in Viewers of our RCbbc Blog! As shown, by the following jump in Statâs, there was a profound interest in recent Statements of Past Students + their Families. Of great intrigue, is the increased overlaps between publicly reported instances of ChildSexualAbuse and the Elite levels of society. Throughout many countries, schools and religions there is commonly cases of the âuntouchable Elitesâ overpowering the âlower, working classâ.
Daily Statistics – Views + Visitors Sun 19.01.20 selected
Itâs particularly worth noting that BBCâs current Headmaster, Paul Brown has removed the abilities of âLow SES backgroundsâ Applicants to be favoured in Scholarship + Bursary Applications. Whilst this may be a short-term remedy, the human nature of pedophiles will continue. As demonstrated by numerous current + previous staff, animal instinct is to shift to another âhunting groundâ, or strategically-further-seclude their predator behaviours. Cessation (stopping) is not an option, after experiencing BBCâs earlier scenarios.
Counselling is also worth noting as a great resource, as after countless solo attempts even further detail has become revealed of my own BBC Old Boysâ abuses. This brings to mind the saying that âthereâs more than one way to âskin a đââ.
Some pupils were inhibited from reporting abuse by their parentsâ pride that they were at the school, a review found ALAMY
A culture of âpower, complicity and coercionâ allowed endemic sexual abuse to flourish for decades at one of Britainâs leading public schools, an inquiry has found.
St Paulâs School, in Barnes, southwest London, failed to challenge paedophile teachers because âmaintaining the reputation of the organisationâ was a higher priority than âany consideration of the impact their behaviour had on pupilsâ.
A serious case review was ordered in 2017 after five former teachers at St Paulâs and its junior school, formerly known as Colet Court, were found guilty of sex offences against boys or the possession of child abuse images.
The convictions followed a police inquiry prompted in 2014 by a series of articles in The Times in which former pupils made allegations against staff whoâŠ
Despite the gradual acceptance that children are not of blame, rather the victim of the horrendous CSA events, often in Institutions of immense deception the (âresponsibleâ) adults are trained en-masse to deflect + defend the reputation of their Institutions, often ahead of their own relationsâ âcare and wellbeingâ. Unfortunately, it appears that the importance/priority of the same places behind the (hidden) occurrence of most of these CSA Events are actually practicing what they preach against:
âIn his steps, what would Jesus do?â – … (see image)
This is where #victimisation steps in as yet another layer of avoidable impacts, which should also be avoided. At an extreme level, is that levels of family of the Abused CSA Survivour add to the ripple-effect by defending their wrongdoing over the often-delayed truthfulness of the CSA victim. Often taking decades (if that) to reveal these CSA occurrences – fear of family/friends, social + institutional exclusion (ostracism) may often outweigh an individualâs chance to become who they could ultimately become. This is but one frequent area, where the determined/brave amongst us are calling out to those who are still in their early phases of resolving their past.
Ganesh, Jesus, Buddha + Confucius (SouthPark) <presumed>
The reuse of the character of âJesusâ has been used, due to the frequency of SM usage. Others that may be relevant, are as provided in the SouthPark cartoon picture above. Each religion/deity share similar ideals, yet differ slightly to the others (often outdoing/replacing earlier ones).
Also related is the wider effect of CSA on Family & Friends, Female Survivors, Male Survivors, Students, Teachers and Workers. These will be dealt with in future postings over 2020 + so forth. Due to RCbbc being initially of male/âBoysâ relevance, most information has been related that way, yet an increasing amount of conversations + messages have been had with the females (partners, children, sisters + relations) in their lives, offering a wider POV in this growing field. Even Counselling has grown + specialised over the last few decades, from a âthere-there, we believe youâ to a genuine-scientific-community related Industry. Hats off, to those who are waiting urgently for their Redress/Compensation. Weâd be willing to offer our Support, where needed.
Does the mention of any of the terms of âcorruption, abuse, deception, obstructionâ cause a creepy feeling, the hairs on the back of your neck stand, or a chill run down your spine? You may have been effected by any of inappropriate issues, that are still becoming prevalent today. Most of us are familiar with the saying of âPower corrupts. Absolute power corrupts, absolutelyâ. (Lord Acton)
Translations of this are often made into areas of vulnerability: Teacher-Students (pedophilia), Church Leader-Youth (child sexual abuser), Sports Coach-Player (privatelessons), Disability Carer-disabled (manipulation), Government-Indigenous (stolen generations), Caretaker-Retiree (aged care abuse) and Banks-Customers (coercion). Thankfully, thereâs been many Royal Commissions called, with more to come. Our âRoyalCommBBCâ is only a small example of what can be possible, when the Sharing of beneficial Information-News-Experiences-Solutions are made.
A great part of any Institution, is that like members typically stick together. Itâs been found that when âreality hits homeâ, many of us acknowledge that theyâre not alone AND there is a simple solution available. This is where RCbbc can help, in supporting past Students, Parents and Friends in contacting experts in their fields.
