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It is appalling that Presbyterian
Support Services should be re-victimising sexual abuse victims by refusing to
talk with them if they have tried to fight for recognition of their claims,
Green Social Services Spokesperson Sue Bradford says. Police have revealed
that they were poised to charge Walter Lake, the former head of Presbyterian
Support Services' children's home in Berhampore, with multiple sex crimes,
but he died before the charges could be laid. Presbyterian Support
has told victims who have complained to police or gone to the media that they
should take their cases to court. "It is
unbelievable that Presbyterian Support should force victims into litigation -
it is just re-victimising them," Ms Bradford says. "These victims
were vulnerable children when they were put into the care of the church group
and the least they deserve is to be heard by the group whose job it was to
ensure they were safe." |
