One pedophile priest survivor in Toowoomba, Queensland, gives City of Angels Blog his take on the Royal Inquiry.
"When the suicides were disclosed was the prompt for the Victorian Inquiry. At about the same time in New South Wales a policeman who’d been investigating this stuff about 30 years, got up and said, No! The police don't have it under control."
Reverberations
went around the world when the Prime Minister* announced on November 12 a Royal Inquiry into sex abuse of children in institutions and
churches nationwide across Australia. The
Royal Inquiry was sparked after thousands of pedophile priest survivors sent submissions
to The Victorian Inquiry which began last spring at the same time a police investigation in another state, New South Wales, was producing similar alarming results.
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We asked Brown in a recent phone conversation for a local viewpoint on the Royal Inquiry as it begins in Australia:
“The reason Victoria looked into it was more than 40 suicides in
two dioceses, the number since 2011 is now at 50 suicides, all of them male and
all related to sexual abuse by a small set of pedophile priests all friends of [Cardinal]
George Pell in the Ballarat Diocese in Victoria.
“A Royal Commission is the most extensive investigation that we
can have in Australia. It has a great
deal of power, to command witnesses come in and seize documents “
The Royal Inquiry may uncover long hidden crimes of pedophile priests and the bishops who protected them all over Australia.
The Royal Inquiry may uncover long hidden crimes of pedophile priests and the bishops who protected them all over Australia.
MORE FROM MY TALK WITH JOHN BROWN:
JB: When the suicides were disclosed, that was the prompt for the Victorian Inquiry. At about the same time in New South Wales in Newcastle south of Sydney, a policeman, Peter Fox, who’d been investigating this stuff about 30 years, got up and said, the police don't have it under control.
Calls for royal commission into institutional abuse have been
going on here for some time.
The press picks up something, it lasts a day or two, then there’s
nothing. The press couldn't even keep it
rolling, very piecemeal in that, news is very regulated and controlled
here.
Until the pressure becomes too great and they have to report the
story.
It could have gone on another ten years like it was going on,
politicians didn't want to know about it, people were lobbying everywhere about
it and politicians were being silent, and police were being silent.
Then a policeman in Victoria disclosed the suicides.
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(John relays a part of his own story that is also mentioned in his submission below.)
I started Catholic school weeks after my fourth birthday.
The abuse started day one,
I found myself in a room facing a nun who I know has
done stuff to me.
It continued until age eight
Four years
Sexual things
(Some of John’s story is difficult to listen to. That's been my experience in producing City
of Angels Blog since 2007. A lot of the
stories I've heard are so horrible and so extreme, but the extent of the crimes
committed against children isn't realized unless some of the survivors can
publish their stories and make the evil known.
John recollected more in a recent conversation: )
In John Brown's own words, continued:
The woodshed at the convent was horrible, also being tied up and
being a part of sex games between a priest and a nun. I was made to observe a lot
Physical sexual abuse took place in the convent almost exclusively
but also in the presbytery I was made an observer. I was put in a chair to observe. The same people, but they never engaged me
while in the presbytery or at least I have no memory of that. It all happened between age four and
eight.
(Okay, I have to ask my readers now to stop. Before you say, oh balderash, it couldn't
have been that bad, I have to say, yes it could have. I've talked to enough different clergy sex
crime victims from different cities and different countries to know it did often
get this bad. As outrageous as what John
Brown is saying in those words above, that's how bad it did get for thousands
of children in Catholic school and orphanage care. )
Kevin O'Donnell ties into John Brown's story as well
Me: I noticed that Rev. Kevin
O’Donnell, who perpetrated on numerous children in Catholic schools in Australia,
was named in your submission.
JB: He was the priest who
abused me when I was eight. At eight he
raped me a number of times in one day, it was violent
He was a visiting priest and I had to go with him because he
needed an altar boy and someone to show him the way. Even though I’d never been to the place he
was going in my life, I had to go with him.
He wanted to leave early. He
needed time to stop along the way and rape me.
When your family has this belief, they don't question these
people.
I pleaded with my mother. I
didn't want to go, I knew what this bloke was about.
I was eight years old now and starting to realize I was being used
differently from other kids.
[On another occasion] my older brother tried to burn the church
down and the school, apparently he had several goes at it. I turned angry quite young and early and I
kicked and bit and threw stones through the church windows. I rebelled so my dad beat me, bang I'm
off. Then at school they’d be saying all
the good works they're doing, but they’d shut up about what they were doing to
me.
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I asked John Brown, tell me about your dad.
John Brown said “He was religious. He believed that stuff and once
you believe that stuff, you're subject to all the blackmail that comes along
with it. You have to accept that as
being part of the Catholic way, blackmail becomes communication.
(Here are excerpts from John Brown's Submission to the Victoria Inquiry, which has now morphed into the Royal Inquiry into sex abuse at institutions all over the nation of Australia.)
Inquiry into the Handling of
Child Abuse by Religious and Other
Organisations
Submission
– John
Anthony Brown, Toowoomba
I am a survivor of sexual abuse
by multiple nuns from before 4 years of age through to 8
years of
age and of violent rape by pedophile priest Kevin O'Donnell at age 8.
The problem of being referred to
by the Queensland Government inquiry to TASC
(Toowoomba Advocacy Service) when
I know that my previous dealings with them, my
counselling, government job
services have all been tainted with the problem of having full
knowledge that Toombs as an ex
Jesuit has sworn an oath to a foreign country and to his
religious order and to his
religion that authorises him to act first and foremost in the interests
of the
church and that he can be authorised to use mental reservation,
This is the cover up in action
and it functions fully and completely within government and
community
services
The
following information is questions answered from page 4 from the Submissions
Guide.
BROWN: I pulled out questions and rewrote some used their questionaire as
template.
Reporting
the abuse:
1. Could you tell anyone about
what happened?
I did tell my mother at the time
the abuse occurred and I have been able to tell people about
the incidents that occurred to me
and have done so since they first occurred.
2. Did you feel discouraged from
reporting the abuse?
Yes, I was excluded from local
sporting groups and received physical beatings in front of
Nun’s, by Nun’s and local
parishioners. Beatings were also given by older kids that I went to
school
with when I didn’t keep my mouth shut about my abuse.
5. Did you tell the religious body
or other organisation about the abuse?
Yes, I was very vocal about the
abuse to anyone that did or didn’t want to listen but there was
no
support from anyone in the local parish.
6. If you delayed in telling or
reporting what prevented you from disclosing earlier?
There was a delay in reporting up
until I was 8 years of age as my mother didn’t know how to
go about it. Mum was scared of
what would happen to us and she had no support from
anyone. Looking back at what
things were like, I totally understand the way my mother
handled
it.
Response to the disclosure;
7. What was the initial
response?
There was no positive initial
response to the disclosure from the Catholic Church or
Parish/local community.
One incident after the initial
disclosure was a beating that was ordered by the local priest by
my dad. My dad was ordered to
whip me with a stock whip, as I was ‘the spawn of Satan’
which he
did.
8. If there was an investigation of
the abuse, how was it conducted?
There was no initial civil
investigation as the policeman at the time was not Catholic and
could not be trusted according to
Catholic neighbours, nuns and clergy. The Church
supposedly removed the priest
Kevin O’Donnell from service at the time but my mother was
informed
that he was working in another area.
HERE ARE MORE
Quotes from John Brown submission to the Victoria Inquiry:
Notes were often delivered to my home from nuns by older family members or other classmates instructing my father to beat me for made up misbehaviour
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lifelong commitment forced onto those others in the classroom and community to continue the cover up of these abuses
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ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET
HERE ARE MORE
Quotes from John Brown submission to the Victoria Inquiry:
Attempting to
disclose led to being branded as a sinner that would spend eternity in hell;
the
spawn of the devil,
the child of Hitler. I was deemed accident prone by clergy as this allowed
them to account for
any physical signs of injury and gave them the ability to blackmail by
saying that they
would beat me and no-one would believe me as I was accident prone.
I was belittled and
humiliated publicly from the pulpit before the entire Catholic congregation
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Notes were often delivered to my home from nuns by older family members or other classmates instructing my father to beat me for made up misbehaviour
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I was forced to carry bread, groceries, alcohol and other wants such as
filling wood boxes, empty bins, sweeping up, lighting and stoking fires
and acting as an altar
boy by nuns and priests as a daily punishment for my evil behaviour.
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Disclosure of these crimes has simply overwhelmed
their ability to maintain this form of
hypocrisy in the public forum.
*****************************lifelong commitment forced onto those others in the classroom and community to continue the cover up of these abuses
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ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET
Something Related
The
Church is frustrating police attempts TODAY to prosecute pedophiles
From Australia video below:
“You could have an allegation against a priest today, and they would investigate and not tell you?
“You could have an allegation against a priest today, and they would investigate and not tell you?
Deputy
Commissioner of Police: “Potentially yes.”
“What if
it's proven, do they then come to you?
“Well,
they haven’t yet, Neal.”
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Background:
"VoicelessVictim" Australia writes on her blog: http://voicelessvictim.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/why-did-you-make-us-wait-so-long/
"And there is pride. Pride that in this highly flawed country, in this far from perfect world, Australian politicians took the high moral ground to address and eradicate real evil in our midst".
And about the cop leading an investigation in New South Wales that also sparked the Royal Inquiry:
“PETER FOX, NSW POLICE (Sept. 2012): I've been on the police force for 34 years. I'm not a kid that just joined yesterday. I've been involved in investigating the clergy for about 20 of those. There are very good reasons, let me tell you, that we need a Royal Commission.” Continue Reading:
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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:59:13 +1000
From: contact@tfyqa.biz
To: Ingrid.Johnson@parliament.vic.gov.au
The Inquiry into the handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other
Organisations
I declared my life open in 2002 in an attempt to control what was
happening as a result of my disclosure in Toowoomba of being a survivor
of childhood sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.
Since that time I have developed what I believe to be the largest piece
of continuous documentation of the experience of myself and many others
in their dealings with the entire spectrum of the Catholic church, its
charities, education and health services across Australia as well as in
person contact with each of the provided restitution or compensation
processes provided by the church as well as interactions with church
lawyers, the Catholic laity, assorted scammers and scoundrels. I believe
there is no other set of documentation like it or as extensive as this.
I would like to present to the people of Victoria and the people of
Australia as well as the Victorian inquiry.
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