-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors
Archdiocese for Years Kept Claims of Abuse From Police - 8/18/02 - Church also let accused priests flee, say documents, interviews. But Mahony has been relatively aggressive in dismissing clergy. By Glenn F. Bunting, Ralph Frammolino and Richard Winton, Times Staff Writers "Faced with allegations that parish priests had sexually abused minors, the Los Angeles Archdiocese under Cardinal Roger M. Mahony for many years withheld information from police and allowed clerics facing prosecution to flee to foreign countries, internal records and interviews show. At the same time, Mahony has been more aggressive than many U.S. bishops in dismissing members of the clergy." www.latimes.com Global Eye - The Past Is Prologue By Chris Floyd 8/16/02 "In the summer of 1953, a few months before his death, Frank Olson made several trips to Europe to investigate secret U.S.-British research centers in Germany. There he found the CIA was testing truth serums and other torture drugs on expendables, including captured Russian agents. He told a British colleague that he had witnessed "horrors" there....His British colleague told his own superiors about Olson's concerns; they in turn informed the CIA that Olson was now a "security risk." Not long after his return, Olson was given the LSD. Then he was flown to New York, ostensibly for psychiatric treatment, at the hands of a CIA doctor -- who prescribed whiskey and pills. Then he was taken to a CIA magician -- yes, a magician -- who apparently tried to hypnotize him for interrogation. Finally he checked into a cheap hotel -- with a CIA handler in tow. Olson called his wife, told her he was feeling better and would be home the next day. But that night, he was found dead on the street, 10 floors below. The handler said that Olson had apparently thrown himself through the closed window in a suicidal fit. And so the first coverup began: 22 years, until the 1975 meeting with Ford. http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2002/08/16/120.html Trauma and Memory - Research "Research has shown that traumatized individuals respond by using a variety of psychological mechanisms. One of the most common means of dealing with the pain is to try and push it out of awareness. Some label the phenomenon of the process whereby the mind avoids conscious acknowledgment of traumatic experiences as dissociative amnesia....there is near-universal scientific acceptance of the fact that the mind is capable of avoiding conscious recall of traumatic experiences....Summary of the results of scientific literature showing a high prevalence of full or partial dissociative amnesia for traumatic events in traumatized populations. Studies show that a period of either partial or full amnesia is reported by between 30 and 90% of adult victims of childhood sexual abuse. Moreover, no study that has looked for evidence of traumatic or dissociative amnesia after child sexual abuse has failed to find it....Research has shown that the content of recovered memories are just as likely to be accurate as those of continuously held memories of trauma....Research shows that children rarely fabricate stories about being abused." http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/Research/Trauma___Memory/trauma___memory.html Abuse carries steep price by Chris Schultz "Shirley Julich says 25 per cent of girls and 9 per cent of boys are sexually abused in some way by the time they reach 16....She says the sexual abuse of children is costing New Zealand $2.4 billion a year. The figure comes from adding together the cost of lost earning, extra health bills and the unmet potential of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Dr Julich also found 8,600 children in New Zealand are sexually abused for the FIRST time EVERY year. 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