«While this court must take and does take the
issue of abuse of a child very seriously,» the footnote said, «the fact that a trial judge tells parents that unless one of them «cops to an admission of what happened to the child» they are going to lose their child, flies in the face of not only the CPSL, but of the entire body of case law with regard to best interests of the child and family reunification.
Yet this week, the Federal Government and Opposition united to oppose the reporting
of abuse of children in immigration detention, amongst things, prompting this series of tweets from Dr Andrew Weatherall (a doctor who cares for children):
Is it possible that the most oppressive parents find in the atonement a conscious or unconscious validation
of the abuse of children for a greater good?
An inquiry into allegations
of abuse of children living in care in Scotland opens today, with the Church of Scotland among a number of bodies set to give evidence.
If you are surprised at the
level of abuse of children by clergy in a country like the US which has a highly developed police and legal system to handle such crimes, consider how high the abuse probably is in less developed countries like those of South America.
2) The catholic church is to disclose all information of child abuse to US authorities in 30 days — up to and including whether the current pope
knew of the abuse of children (which he almost assuredly did given his past roles in the church hierarchy); if this does not happen, the the catholic church loses its tax preferred status indefinitely
Indeed, according to the NSPCC, the vast
majority of abuse of children and young people happens not by any particular kind of adult professional, but by peers (friends, boyfriends, etc.) and to a lesser degree family members (siblings, parents, etc.).
The Ministry of Education operated a special unit for sexuality and for
prevention of abuse of children and youth that assisted the education system in preventative educational work and with appropriate intervention in cases of suspected abuse of minors.
The proposed NHS teams will be instructed to give evidence
of the abuse of children within their area, ipso facto, they will have been the very doctors who diagnosed the abuse initially, therefore from a parent's perspective they are being asked to disagree with their own diagnosis, an issue commented on in the Webster case and acknowledged by Lord Justice Wall as a possible cause of bias in W v Oldham MBC.
(b) if, in a case where an application is made to the court for a Part VII order in relation to a child, a person alleges that there has been abuse of a child or family violence or there is a
risk of abuse of a child or family violence and the allegation of abuse, family violence or risk of abuse or family violence is relevant to whether the court should grant or refuse the application (Section 67ZBA of the Family Law Act 1975, and Rule 2.04 D (1)(a) of the Family Law Rules 2004).
Denial of this
form of abuse of children is reminiscent of society's denial in the early twentieth century, Warshak writes, of the prevalence of physical and sexual abuse of children.