My brief van 8 Augustus oor Die misbruik van kinders was bedoel as 'n tweede en finale bydrae oor die saak en my motivering met die bydraes was om groter bewustheid te skep. Die volgende “spoeg en plak” inligting is egter van so ’n aard dat dit ook onder die aandag gebring word. As ’n mens hierdie twee aanhalings lees kry ’n mens die (dankbare) gevoel dat kindermisbruik internasionaal veel erger is as in Suid-Afrika.
Die eerste is ’n waarskuwing van ’n vorige CIA direkteur aan ’n Amerikaanse senator.
"What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how much evidence you have. This is simply one of the hard facts of life you have to face."
- Former CIA director and Cercle member William Colby giving advice to his friend senator John DeCamp, urging him to quit his investigations into the Franklin child abuse affair and to write a book about his experiences (The Franklin Coverup, 2nd edition, foreword).
Die tweede skep ’n ontstellende beeld van toestande in die Britse Eilande.
"From East Belfast's Kincora Boys' Home, via Leicestershire, Staffordshire and London, to the children's homes of Clwyd, we have witnessed 25 years of cover-up. Cover-up, not to protect the innocent but to protect the regularly named elements of the British establishment who surface whenever widespread evidence of child abuse is exposed. From the public schools right through to the Catholic and Anglican churches, child abuse has been allowed a special place of sanctuary... Social workers, police, security services, local and national political figures remain the common factors in the fall-out from the [child abuse] inquiries... In case after case the cycle is described - a child is 'taken into care', then abused in a home, handed on to an outside pedophile ring and out on to the rent-boy/prostitution circuit beyond, if they live that long... Journalists find themselves battling first with authority, then with the libel laws, to publish the truth about a vast web of abuse."
- June 6, 1996, The Guardian, 'True scandal of the child abusers'. These lines were written by the author of the article and are not quotes.
George
Kommentaar
Dis horribaal en moet gestop word.
Kindermishandeling, hetsy dit vir seks of ander geldelike gewin was nog altyd die nasionale sport van die Wit Weste, dit kom ook uit die Bywwelse dae voort al aan...dis sed but troe...maar hoeveel witmense wil die probleem erken of selfs herken???