A charity is closing its doors, as it had to make large payments to the National Redress Scheme.

The charity supports people on low incomes, those needing food and language support, refugees, the financially poor and those from other continents overseas.

These people are now going to be left worse off, all because of the National Redress Scheme being in place.

Whilst someone else is getting a payment here, other people are being left worse off. So why is life all about finance and compensation?

Nathan J, I did not experience institutional sexual abuse as a small child but I have never-the-less experienced being 'fiddled' with as a young boy.
I must admit, I am disappointed in what I read and here on the subject today.
I do not recall any, (and I mean none) trauma regarding my experience/s.
I am however pissed off with those who have admitted to having been fiddled with.
I refuse to believe that, so called men, can be such piss weak 'girls'.
Whinging, whining lot of pansies, the lot em'.
The truth is if you were fiddled with as a very young child, you would not have the smarts or maturity to know what was going on, so apart from being temporarily confused by it all, you accept it as just another part of growing up or of being a boy.
But essentially you carry on, because the experience did you no physical harm and at that age, as I have said, would not have registered as anything bad or even psychologically detrimental.
You only find out that what happened to you as a small child, is socially un-acceptable, and any victim is shamed and pitied, thereby planting the seed of guilt and shame, as you get older into manhood.
Now a normal mature, healthy, (mentally) person would just shrug it off as just another of life's experiences, I did.
I consider myself as such a person.
I believe that those MEN who have decided to complain about such an innocuous event or act, are anything but men.
If they are so affected by the event of decades ago, they have mental and emotional issues.
Now I understand that the jelly brains amongst us will come out and pander to his shortcomings.
I say, NO, leave him alone and if he raises the incident in discussion himself, play it down as part of growing up and it is happening everywhere, as it is/was.
By doing this you will not be adding to his anxiety and stress on the issue, and eventually will see it for what it was, NOTHING!

Well done ALTRAV, classic example of a person who blames the victim. The victim is the guilty party, and the perpetrator should be given a citation for performing his civic duty. I suppose in your mind the likes of the notorious paedophile Gerald Ridsdale should have had a medal pinned to his chest, and given a knighthood, whilst his victims should have been locked up for whinging.

Nathan j we have no choice but to see the victims first
You point out other victims but surely that is secondary to the evil done to victims
I could never ever think other than the two issues are separate and the scheme must come first always
In fact if it bankrupt some it will reenforce the fact such things should never ever happen again

In a list published in February 49 organisation were named as not signing up to the National Redress Scheme for victims of paedophiles. The majority of those trying to dodge their responsibility to compensate victims were church organisations, the majority of those Catholic, the worlds largest paedophile organisation!

I think everyone has the right (or a duty to themselves even) to rise above things that happened to them as kids that wasn't their fault.

And this isn't so much in a context of victim and perpetrator;
Nor is it really about blame or compensation.
It's simply about that persons own emotional well-being within themselves.
You can't change the past, you need to try to accept it look forward and think about the future.

'Everyone has the right to live however they choose so long as it doesn't affect others in an adverse manner.'

If someone does something which has a negative or detrimental impact upon your life you have every right to speak your mind and hold those accountable for actions that harmed you.
And some things are hard to accept, especially when others can't see your point of view.

It can be a double edged sword to 'proclaim your victimhood'.
The real aim should be to try to rise above it for ones own wellbeing.
To somehow 'build a bridge and get over it'.