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Originally posted by Battleline
Why is this so hard to believe after the scandle with the Catholic priests???
Originally posted by Battleline
This is more "human nature"at work,you brits are not above this sort of thing even though you would like to think you are.To defend these people inspite of all the info and sites that have been given is either like minded with people you are defending or just pompous arrogance.
Originally posted by Battleline
This is why these powerful people (and the common person)get away with it.
Originally posted by kindred
These include claims that police were tipped off that Hamilton was armed and en route to Dunblane Primary School, that he was a Freemason and received favours from Masons in the police allowing him to avoid prosecution, and that he was part of a paedophile ring that included members of the security forces.
(quoted from Ch. 5)
Thomas Hamilton harboured a long-standing grievance against the Scouts and the police. In the large volume of correspondence which he generated a recurring theme is his assertion that the police were biased in favour of the "brotherhood of masons" and that there was a "brotherhood" link between the Scouts and the police. In passing it may be noted that this together with evidence given by Mr Deuchars indicated that Thomas Hamilton had never been a freemason. I am satisfied that he was not a member of the masons. Evidence was given by a number of his acquaintances of his bitter complaints of having been victimised by the police and having suffered hard treatment at the hands of local authorities.
Because we're talking two entirely different scopes here... It's easy to believe that an individual Catholic priest with such tendencies would have the opportunity to attempt such things... They are in regular contact with kids though various youth programs, etc. They're teachers, or coaches, or advisors, or whatever. There's plenty of opportunity for one priest and one youth to do something without people noticing what's going on.
Originally posted by Battleline
Why is this so hard to believe after the scandle with the Catholic priests???
With the church, the damage has been most spectacularly demonstrated by the high-level attempts at keeping secret the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests. A report from a three-year investigation released on 26 Nov 2009 found that more than 100 parish priests had sexually abused children since 1940. But church leaders in the Dublin Archdiocese did not inform police about any complaint of abuse until 1995.
Since February 23 this year, when the island's then deputy chief officer, Lenny Harper, first addressed them outside the granite walls of the Haut de la Garenne former children's home, they had been led to believe it had been a house of horror - a place where children were tortured and abused in a labyrinth of cellars, and that possibly as many as seven were murdered.
Now, a bluff, straightforward and extremely experienced Lancashire detective, Det Supt Mick Gradwell, who had taken over the investigation after Mr Harper retired in August, was telling them that most of what they had been told about Haut de la Garenne and Mr Harper's £4.5million inquiry was nonsense.
'There are no credible allegations of murder, there are no suspects for murder,' Mr Gradwell said, and neither was there a scrap of evidence that there had ever been any victims.
Illustrating his presentation with slides and the actual physical evidence, he went on to demolish every detail that the world had been told supported the notion that children had died in horrifying circumstances.
Police moved into the hostel in February 2008 as part of an investigation into historic child abuse. Police excavated a cellar, and widely-publicized initial reports claimed that human remains and other evidence of torture and/or murder had been found. These reports later proved false.
However, the investigation did produce numerous allegations of child abuse from past residents, which have resulted in the convictions of a former resident and a former member of staff.
The hostel closed as the police investigation commenced and YHA have indicated that they do not wish to re-use the premises.[14] As of June 2009, the building is used for accommodation for military units visiting Jersey.