UK--Victims blast Home Office panel with no survivors on it

By David Clohessy
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
April 8, 2015

http://www.snapnetwork.org/uk_victims_blast_home_office_panel_with_no_survivors_on_it

A government panel ostensibly set up to help child sex abuse survivors is, sadly, already hurting them by excluding them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/child-protection/11522013/Victims-demand-changes-to-new-child-sex-abuse-inquiry.html  

This isn’t just an insult to those already wounded by child sex crimes and inadequate official response to those crimes. It’s also self-destructive because it deprives the Home Office’s inquiry of both sorely-needed credibility and vital experience.

This must seem like a third betrayal to men and women who have already been harmed twice, first by a shrewd predator and second by callous institutions.

We  hope Theresa May rectifies this hurtful injustice quickly. Most survivors are resilient and smart, not helpless and ignorant. We deserve to be treated with respect and decency. And we deserve to be listened to.