The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154680   Message #3638302
Posted By: Andrez
02-Jul-14 - 08:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: Dead babies and Tuam Bon Secours nuns
Subject: RE: BS: Dead babies and Tuam Bon Secours nuns
Not a problem Janie, thanks :-)

To respond to one comment above, the reason for posting the media watch story was to highlight the way the Murdoch press promoted the story in Oz and how his lot in the UK then took up the story from their Oz paper with bugger all fact-checking and research and absolutely no interest in the underlying issues and reprinted it with banner headlines just to flog more of their newspapers to people who are happy to have their prejudices and stereotypes reinforced and untroubled by critical thinking.

The reason for the other link was simply to share with those interested some current information about child abuse that has been happening in Oz through institutions run by a range of religious and non-religious organisations. Today we heard about the harm experienced by children in state care:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-02/siblings-sexual-abuse-highlights-flaws-in-victorian-state-care/5566378

Until we get a clearer picture through better evidence (i.e. not the Murdoch press) about what actually happened at Tuam, I'm not sure there is much we can do about those potentially awful events by now.

That said regardless of where we live now we have a responsibility to do what we can to see that children can be safe and free from harm regardless of whose care they are in. If those people or institutions let children get hurt then the book (legal not holy) should be thrown at them. Hear that Harris?

Cheers,

Andrez

PS: Is there going to be any UK investigation into who knew what and how Saville got away with his 'capers' over the years?