See Dr Em's Twitter thread last year on systemic Safeguarding & Child Protection failure in Girl Guides:
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"Those who wish to access victims will exploit situations and put themselves in positions where they are surrounded by children. It is why paedophiles entered the Catholic Church, sports coaching, gymnastics coaching, children’s hospitals and homes.
One is not going to get much access to children while working on an oil rig.
They will also make themselves beyond reproach. When I see a man accused of sexual abuse and people speaking about all he has done for the community/all of his awards/ such a nice guy etc. I think: he did it.
Here is one example. If you type the phrases 'award winner' 'accused' and 'child sexual abuse' you will have endless reading.
Head of Charity to Prevent Child Abuse Arrested for Soliciting Child Pornography and Sex With Minors
www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2018/06/27/head-charity-prevent-child-abuse-arrested-soliciting-child-pornography-sex-minors/
This is one reason the aid sector has attracted paedophiles to itself like moths to a flame. It allows them to maintain a ‘good guy’ persona, protect themselves with winning community awards, permits access to vulnerable children.
Dr. Salter has termed this the double life. She observes that ‘many offenders will deliberately establish themselves as the kind of person who wouldn’t do that kind of thing’ Salter, Predators, p.31
Palmer et al warn us that ‘just as status and power differentials play a role in child sexual abuse in institutional contexts, they also play a role in the detection of abuse. The more status and power the perpetrators and their allies possess in an organisation...
the more difficult it will be for victims and third-party observers to have their disclosures heard and believed. Victims and third-party observers may pay the price for disclosing abuse with retaliation by the perpetrator and institution’ p.29
We saw this with the Girl Guide’s expulsion of leaders raising safety concerns.
Often in these reports you notice that there was a culture of intimidation and power was centralised at the top. Often this translates as they would not listen to women or women were intimidated into silence.
The institutions create a culture conducive to abuse.
The Girl Guides in its latest bad publicity has just advertised how weak its safeguarding is, that it will expel whistleblowers and a culture of silence is to be encouraged.
The Girl Guides has just shown that it will close down discussion and make all kinds of logical gymnastics to support one identity – it is telling potential predators that they can place themselves beyond reproach in this organisation.
With self-ID how do we distinguish between the gender dysphoric and the predator who has seen an opportunity to exploit?
I am alarmed about boundary violations in the Girl Guides. That an institution is teaching girls that their boundaries are in fact bigotry and whether they feel uncomfortable or not they are expected to be exposed to penises as the norm is setting off alarms for me.
Part of sexual grooming is boundary violations in a crescive process. Moving from a non-sexual touch and escalating slowly. Perpetrators of abuse start small to see how a victim will react – they are working out who is a ‘good’ victim.
It is not such a leap to see a penis in the shower and to share a tent with someone with a penis to move to touching is it, all while the institution says, yeah that's grand. The GG are doing predators work for them." (continues)
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