The scandal of child abuse in the Church of England: we investigate how senior clergy in one diocese failed to act. Abusers in church diocese who who were able to evade justice for decades. We ask, did the church put its own interests before the needs of survivors? And in the wake of past scandals can we trust the church to do the right thing today? Panorama: Scandal in the Church of England, BBC 2019
It was called the Past Cases Review and it should have been a chance for the church to discover once and for all the scale of its abuse problem of the past … Right from the start there was a serious flaw: the Church of England decided not to speak to survivors of abuse. ibid.
More and more schoolchildren are speaking out about sexual abuse by other children. New figures show an alarming rise in the number of cases reported to the police. Panorama: Who’s Protecting our Kids? Mariella Frostrup reporting, BBC 2021
How social media can turn toxic for women. From reality TV stars to politicians, women are getting more and more online hate. Panorama: Online Abuse, BBC 2021
For almost three years I’ve been investigating a dark secret in a US fashion industry. At the heart of this secret was one man, the man behind one of the biggest fashion brands in the world. The modern-day founder of Abercrombie & Fitch, Mike Jeffries. Panorama: The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool, BBC 2023
Men who say they were exploited and abused. ibid.
Just the latest in a series of sex gang cases that have come to court. The Hunt For Britain’s Sex Gangs, Channel 4 2013
Telford Police have been running Operation Chalice for almost a year. ibid.
A series of raids begin in which a total of nine suspects are arrested in the market town of Wellington, just outside Telford. ibid.
Some were as young as eleven when they were abused. (Children & Paedophile & Abuse) ibid.
9,056. A classic pattern of grooming – starting with friendship and quickly moving to abuse and control. ibid.
The men then introduced the girls to their friends and family. ibid.
The Crown Prosecution Service decides not to proceed with the case. ibid.
The ordeal of going to court was overwhelming. ibid.
At least 10,000 children may be victims of this kind of sexual exploitation. Yet there are only four beds in the whole of the UK to help children recover from this horrific abuse. ibid.
The list of suspected perpetrators has risen to over 200. ibid.
This is the story of three girls who in two years all went missing from the same street ... Until May 2013 they were help captive inside this house. The Cleveland Captives: What Really Happened? BBC 2013
At 6 p.m. a call goes out to trace Ariel Castro. ibid.
Hundreds of news crews descend on Seymour Avenue. ibid.
Four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. ibid.
The house is both a prison and a torture chamber. ibid.
During World War II the Vatican was criticised for supporting Hitler and his Nazi regime. To this day the Vatican is still under investigation for plundering Nazi gold from the Swiss bank accounts of Jewish holocaust victims. Over the past five decades more than one thousand five hundred bishops have been identified in the sexual assault of tens of thousands of boys and girls in their trusting congregations and orphanages. Why is this filthy rich institution preaching spiritual values of poverty and chastity while cardinals, bishops and priests cover up their crimes of sexual abuse? Why has the Church fought and resisted the compensation claims of their sexually, emotionally and spiritually traumatised victims? Ring of Power
Why did the Pope’s apology smell like bullshit? Because he himself organised the cover-up. Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s7e10: Vatican, Showtime 2007
2005: The pope was granted immunity from liability from any sex-abuse cover-ups in the US by George W Bush. ibid.
Instruction: On the Manner of Proceeding in Cases of Solicitation The Decree Crimen Sollicitationis, The Vatican Press March 16 1962 ... Anyone involved in a sex-abuse investigation, the accuser and the accused, are to be restrained by a perpetual silence ... In all matters and with all persons, under the penalty of excommunication. Secret Vatican document uncovered from 2003
Religion that as reported in Time magazine Catholic institutions have recently paid out more than $300,000,000 in the United States in settlement of cases where priests have been accused of sexually abusing under-age boys. And there is no end in sight to other pending cases. Notra Dame Philosophy Professor Ralph McKinnery said, ‘We, the Catholic church could be sued out of existence.’ Derek Partridge, The Naked Truth
I acknowledge the pain that the Church in America has experienced as a result of the sexual abuse of minors. Pope Benedict XVI
The rape and the torture of children were downplayed and managed to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, its standing and its reputation. Enda Kenny, Irish prime minister July 2011
I should have been removed and attended to. Father Oliver O’Grady
He was very supportive. Father Oliver O’Grady, re Bishop Mahony
I called him [Oliver Grady] in and told him he was to decease contact. Bishop Roger Mahony
I am angry at [Bishop] Mahony for claiming that he had absolutely no knowledge at this paedophile who had a file. Nancy Sloan, victim
More accuse Lode priest of sex crimes. Metro front page
The Number One goal of every Bishop, and a part of the vows they take when they become Bishop, is to protect the Church from scandal. Protecting the church from scandal means documents, witnesses and victims are kept quiet and shuffled away. Jewell Casticks, SNAP, survivors’ network for victims of abuse
Case and Jane DeGroot: Before leaving the priesthood Case was pastor of St Anne’s Parish [Lodi, California] where Oliver O’Grady was a priest. Deliver Us From Evil ***** director Amy Berg
1976: Bishop Guilfoyle promises Nancy Sloan’s family Oliver O’Grady will be sent to a monastery. In exchange the family does not press charges. ibid.
1980: Bishop Guilfoyle passes away; he is replaced by Roger Mahony. ibid.
The Howard’s evidence: October 10 1980 letter: ‘I spoke to you once before about Father Oliver O’Grady.’ ibid.
1982: Roger Mahony moves Oiver O’Grady to another parish 52 miles away. ibid.
1983: Oliver O’Grady continues to abuse children in Stockton, Turlock and Lodi. ibid.
1984: Roger Mahony moves Oliver O’Grady to another parish 47 miles away. ibid.
2000: Oliver O’Grady is released from prison and deported to Ireland. ibid.
Pope Benedict XVI was accused of conspiracy to cover up sexual abuse in the United States. At the Vatican’s request, President Bush granted the Pope immunity from prosecution. ibid.
Over 100,000 victims of clergy sexual abuse have come forward in the United States alone. ibid.
There’s no policy to help the victims ... And there’s an unwritten policy to lie about the existence of the problem ... This is all over the world. Father Tom Doyle
Ireland’s attachment to the Catholic Church is straining to breaking point. The secret crimes of Irish priests against children have collapsed the Church’s moral authority. This World: The Shame of the Catholic Church, BBC 2012
The cleric abuse scandal is far from ended. It goes to the very top of the Catholic Church in Ireland. ibid.
The police investigation which ended with Father Eugene Green being jailed in 2000 found evidence the priest’s crime were covered up. ibid.
What the Church knew was never explained. ibid.
It involved Cardinal Sean Brady, primate of all Ireland, and the country’s most notorious paedophile priest Father Brendan Smyth. At its centre a boy who in 1975 reported Smith’s abuse to the Cardinal. ibid.
Their families were not warned in any way about the paedophile. ibid.
So far the abuse scandals have cost the Church about three billion pounds and counting. ibid.
No-one stood more respected in his community than Father Ivan Payne. A master of deception he terrorised children for three decades – the true scale of his crimes remains unknown. Evil Up Close s1e5: Ivan The Terrible
In 1969 the newly ordained priest Ivan Payne begins working at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin. ibid.
The Church moves him to a parish of his own. However, the Church keeps secret those stories it has heard. ibid.
Finally in 1996 the police are brought in. ibid.
His Church masters had effectively allowed him to serial offend. ibid.