37 year wait - Your help needed, please!
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Hi all,
My name is Phil, and my partner's (of 16 years) name is James Moran. He is a 50 year old survivor of clerical sexual abuse and he has waited 37 years for the Irish authorities to bring one of his abusers to court.
We have a blog if you would like to find out more about his story:
www.37yearwait.blogspot.com
We need your help please!
Chapter 20 is the last remaining, censored chapter in Judge Yvonne Murphy's report into the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations by the Catholic Church and the Irish State.
Chapter 20 has remained censored on foot of a High Court direction that its full publication could damage the trial of a defrocked priest charged with the sexual assault of children in the 1970s and 80s.
Former priest Patrick McCabe was sentenced last month by the Circuit Criminal Court. As a result of his trial, there is now no further need for the blanked-out chapter to remain secret.
We have set up an online petition, and we would be extremely grateful for your support:
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...-murphy-report
The petition only takes a second to sign, but I would be grateful if you could share it with your friends and family too... You can do that with Facebook, Twitter or Email, after you have signed.
The Murphy Report will reveal the truth about why James' statements lay undiscovered for several decades. During these years Patrick McCabe was allowed to travel abroad undetected and unmonitored, and abused again. many times.
James, and the other victims of Patrick McCabe have a right to know what is contained within Chapter 20, in order to put that part of their life’s jigsaw together. The victim’s lives are now in the public domain through the Murphy Report and they have a right, by association, to know the truths contained within.
37 Years is a lifetime of waiting. Enough is enough. Please help us that we can try and get some 'closure'.
Sorry if you feel this is the wrong forum for this kind of thing, but we are new to social media and the like.
Thank you very, very much.
Phil and James
My name is Phil, and my partner's (of 16 years) name is James Moran. He is a 50 year old survivor of clerical sexual abuse and he has waited 37 years for the Irish authorities to bring one of his abusers to court.
We have a blog if you would like to find out more about his story:
www.37yearwait.blogspot.com
We need your help please!
Chapter 20 is the last remaining, censored chapter in Judge Yvonne Murphy's report into the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations by the Catholic Church and the Irish State.
Chapter 20 has remained censored on foot of a High Court direction that its full publication could damage the trial of a defrocked priest charged with the sexual assault of children in the 1970s and 80s.
Former priest Patrick McCabe was sentenced last month by the Circuit Criminal Court. As a result of his trial, there is now no further need for the blanked-out chapter to remain secret.
We have set up an online petition, and we would be extremely grateful for your support:
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...-murphy-report
The petition only takes a second to sign, but I would be grateful if you could share it with your friends and family too... You can do that with Facebook, Twitter or Email, after you have signed.
The Murphy Report will reveal the truth about why James' statements lay undiscovered for several decades. During these years Patrick McCabe was allowed to travel abroad undetected and unmonitored, and abused again. many times.
James, and the other victims of Patrick McCabe have a right to know what is contained within Chapter 20, in order to put that part of their life’s jigsaw together. The victim’s lives are now in the public domain through the Murphy Report and they have a right, by association, to know the truths contained within.
37 Years is a lifetime of waiting. Enough is enough. Please help us that we can try and get some 'closure'.
Sorry if you feel this is the wrong forum for this kind of thing, but we are new to social media and the like.
Thank you very, very much.
Phil and James
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Wow. :eek:
I often have the attitude as like last poste has said. The preist has been found out. And have been done for it. Don't waste any more of your life with living in the past
Thanks Mrs Badger! X Oh, btw.... I am a 'He' not a 'She' !!!
Sensitive soul aren't you. :cool:
No worries Mrs Badger! X
:rolleyes:
I think that it is the victims right to know the full extent of the report. Until they do then I can quite understand they may not feel they have all the answers they need to move on.
Not having been a victim of anything even remotely near this I would never deign to tell someone who has that they have had their justice and should now put it behind them. It obviously isn't that easy.
OP I wish you and your partner the best and hope you get what you need to help your partner put his life in a place he wants it to be xx
Thanks Sally. After struggling for many years with it, we both feel that we are achieving something. That something great can come out of something so unpleasant.
You may wish to explain yourself, which is fine, but there is absolutely no need. Ignore batfink.
Best of luck.
Thank you Geniusgirl!
Thankyou woodbush (that sounds itchy!)
It's OK.
I was born in Nantwich at The Barony (now Princes Court)
It's a nice little town (growing all the time though) - I am Alsager originally. Posh Clayhead!
Thanks Richard. Means a lot.
Thanks Randy, erm, RandomSally! You are a star
Hi Phil - have you made a direct approach to the Minister for Justice's office - Alan Shatter?
We have Patsy. They don't seem to want to help very much. Sad really. On the blog is a list of people we have contacted by email and post. They will answer enquiries from the press quicker than they do from the 'survivors' - which seems unfair.
You don't move on until everything is sorted. YOu don't score high on emotional intelligence, do you?