Saturday, March 19, 2011

They wouldn't have amounted to much, anyway

"Because so many victims have spent their early lives in the care system the church has argued that as adults they wouldn't have amounted to much anyway."

That's a quote from a British attorney, Richard Scorer, who represents victims of abuse by Catholic priests. He was referring to compensation claims, which he says "don’t seek to punish the wrongdoer, but to put the victim in the financial position they would be without the abuse."

Many of the victims were in the church-run care system, which apparently was not terribly successful if most of the children who came out of it didn't "amount to much." I don't know which is more disturbing, the fact that they're implying their care systems were substandard or that they continue to place so little value on the lives of the victims.

To read the entire article:
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1410992_making_the_church_face_up_to_the_truth_of_abuse

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