I've been telling people in authority for 25 years not one helped me
police social services court solicitors children charities not one
single f*cking one of them would listen and do anything please help
me tell the world how too many of us are failed by the system some
if us didn't make it in shallow secret graves they need.
#justice #rt #telltheworld #strengthinnumbers #saveourchildren Cheryl Corless.
mothers heartache
I am a very proud mummy to 7 beautiful children and I spent my teens in care being treated worse than an animal would be treated, at 25 I was at the end of a massively abuse relationship when I started in labour with my 3rd child his dad started hitting me so I fled and hid in a phone box where I gave birth, it terrified me and I developed what I no now to be ptsd I hit the alcohol bad and neglected my children something iv regretted always they were taken into care eldest went for adoption other two with violent dad got eldest back from adoption at 12 and passed all the assessments I’d previously failed so badly in previous hearing, I got married had another 3 kids whilst preg with my 7th my husband left me and disappeared came back month before birth attacked me and broke my pelvis I was in agony cud hardly walk but still had 3 kids under 5 to bring up (ss got eldest flat at 16) alone I neglected the house work those next few weeks ended up giving birth at home ambulance rang ss bang they jumped in my life again, I was doing great at first my pelvis was better now not preg was managing alone not one person in my life lifted a finger to help me. Sure start were working with me and I had home help twice a week kids went to school with fresh fruit in clean nice clothes and were well fed we went out often to the seaside or their antys in manchester then I was informed sw had changed and the bitch arrived she terroized me told me my kids were too beautiful for likes of me played hundreds of dirty nasty tricks I complained to her manager he laughed at me told me my complaints go in the shredder her team leader presented her with flowers when 11 months after my baby was born my kids were dragged out of my house kicking and screaming terrified with police ss etc avin a laugh and a smoke outside because I’d been ironing iron hadn’t cooled down and 5 n 6 year old were fighting one touched other with iron he had a 1cm burn on back of his neck now youngest two gone for adoption the boys are seperated haven’t seen me or each other for 2 years and have to spend rest of their childhood in foster care iv never laid a hand on my kids and love them dearly do u really think its right I can never see them again coz of a messy house after a struggle that got sorted and a tiny accident coz I don’t I now suffer Badly with my mental health and am recovering from my third mental breakdownHyndburn woman delivers next door neighbour’s baby
A NEW mum has thanked her neighbour for delivering her second lightning-birth baby.
BABY JOY: Mum Cheryl (left) and new-born baby Kelsie with neighbour Tracey
In 1997, Church woman Cheryl Corless made the front page of the then Lancashire Evening Telegraph after giving birth to her baby son Harry in a phone box as she tried to dial 999.
Some 12 years on, the 36-year-old mum gave birth to her seventh child Kelsie in her young son’s bedroom with the help of her next-door neighbour Tracey Gilsenan.
Cheryl, who was alone in the house while her husband Anthony, 22, was at his mother’s, was a week away from a scheduled Caesarean because the baby was breached.
But, 15 minutes after feeling her first contraction, little Kelsie made an appearance.
Tracey delivered the baby with the help of a 999 operator, shortly after being woken by a phone call.
Earlier that day Cheryl had had slight pains, but dismissed them as wind. “None of my other babies were fast, except Harry.
“I was expecting a long delivery, but just at the last minute Kelsie must have turned.
“I called Tracey and sent a text message to Anthony. It was just 15 minutes later I sent another saying ‘Too late, she’s here!’”
Kelsie is the couple’s fourth child along with Lewis, four, William, three and 18-month-old Alfie.
Cheryl’s children from a previous relationship, Danny, 17, who lives in Blackburn and Sally, 13, and Harry, 12, who live with their father, are also delighted with their “adorable” sister.
Cheryl added: “Tracey was amazing with me and the kids, who were up. I can’t thank her enough for everything.”
Tracey added: “Cheryl was very calm and the operator told me what to do.
“The most frightening bit was picking her up and placing her on her mum while she was still attached.”
Cheryl, made the front page of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph when she gave birth to Harry in 1997 two weeks early in a phone box in Church Street, Church.
Harry was rescued from his mum’s leggings by his dad, Leigh Swindlehurst, before passing ambulance workers stopped to help.
Cheryl, whose maiden name is Bell, says Kelsie will be definitely be her last child.
She said: “There’ll be no more! Our family is definitely complete.
“Anthony has been after a little girl and he has her now.”
End!
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Why did you take senior roles with an organisation that was affiliated to the Paedophile Information Exchange, a vile organisation openly campaigning to legalise child sex?
Do you have any guilt over the many child victims who suffered appalling abuse at the hands of PIE members whom the NCCL helped legitimise?
Did you ever recommend that the affiliate links between PIE and your civil rights organisation should be severed?
Do you have any regret that you worked for a pressure group that was associated with a grotesque outfit that advocated the legalisation of paedophilia?
Having worked for several years for an organisation that gave significant support to PIE, do you feel you can be taken seriously when discussing policies relating to children?
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Northern Ireland child abuse inquiry: 'We were child slaves from a young age'
Hundreds come forward to tell Northern Ireland inquiry about historical institutional abuse in the country
Margaret McGuckin,
left, and Alison Diver both say that abuse they suffered as children has
had a devastating effect on their lives. Photograph: Kelvin Boyes/Press
Eye
The inquiry is separate from a recent major police investigation in the country that has led to the arrest of more than 30 people for sexual exploitation of children and young people who have gone missing from the care system over the past 18 months.
Formally established by law in January this year, the historical inquiry is tasked with examining if there were "systemic failings" by state and church in children's homes between 1922 and 1995 – a period spanning more than 70 years. Earlier this month, the inquiry held its third public hearing in Belfast, where its chairman, the former high court judge Sir Anthony Hart, named, for the first time, some of the institutions under investigation, including former children's homes run by the Catholic church.
Hart also confirmed that the final deadline for victims wishing to apply to give evidence would be the end of November, and he made fresh calls for people now living outside Northern Ireland who had been abused as children in the country to come forward. Earlier this month, 363 people had already made formal applications to speak to the inquiry; some were in their 80s. Hart said that more than 100 were living in mainland Britain, the US and Australia.
Humiliation
Margaret McGuckin was one of the first victims to submit an application to give evidence to the inquiry, which is looking at all types of abuse: physical and emotional as well as sexual.
In 1968, aged 11, McGuckin left Nazareth House, a children's home in Belfast run by the Nazareth Sisters. After eight years in the home, she did her best to get on with her life, but like many survivors, she told no one for decades what had happened to her there. "You didn't want to think about it because the memories were just too much," she says. "We were child slaves from a very young age." Young children were expected to carry out gruelling domestic chores and were wantonly punished, she says. "We were getting practically drowned in baths, beaten and starved. It was pure and sheer neglect: coldness, cruelty and humiliation. Can you imagine the damaged goods coming out of that? And I was certainly damaged goods. I was made to feel worthless, that I was a bad person." She was eventually diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
McGuckin, now 56, became a campaigner for survivors of abuse a few years ago, after seeing someone she had been in Nazareth House with talking on television about the abuse she had experienced. "The scales came off my eyes. I couldn't ignore this any more and I immediately got in touch with her."
It was at a time when people across Ireland were beginning to speak out, thanks in large part to the Ryan commission into the abuse of thousands of children in more than 250 mainly church-run institutions in the south of Ireland. It published its damning report in May 2009, not long after widespread media coverage of the Magdalene Laundries scandals, involving the incarceration and abuse in convents of women and girls.
McGuckin and others are grateful for the inquiry, and are keen to ensure that it hears from as many survivors as possible, that awareness of what happened is raised and that people and institutions are held accountable. But as the next stage of the hearings approaches – where evidence will be given in public – concerns are being raised about the scope of the inquiry and the processes for supporting survivors.
Alison Diver, 44, was placed in care in numerous institutions during the 1980s. She says she experienced various types of abuse and that the impact on her life was "devastating" – she has had severe depression and has attempted suicide. The "extremely stressful" process of dredging up memories in private, informal interviews with the inquiry team might have been made easier, she suggests, if a dedicated mental health professional specialising in trauma had been present. She says she "needed more help" during and after giving evidence than the witness support officers were able to give.
The Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, which announced the inquiry, has recently commissioned the setting up of a helpline for victims. But Diver and McGuckin claim that more support is needed for victims when they first encounter the inquiry.
"There are no counsellors on hand," says McGuckin. "We feel like we are going there and we are being retraumatised. I'd like to see better support."
Hart said that, although inquiry members are very aware of the emotional distress that coming to see them can generate for applicants, "unfortunately, this is unavoidable by the very nature of the task". He added: "The role of the inquiry is not to provide expert counselling or psychiatric care. That is for the health and social care services and specialist organisations."
Another survivor, Jim McCleave, 47, believes that, in addition to support issues, the scope of the inquiry should have been wider. For example, it isn't investigating clerical abuse and has no power to determine the civil or criminal liability of individuals. McCleave, who was raped at 13 by a youth worker, went "off the rails" as a result, and ended up, aged 15, in St Patrick's Training Centre in Belfast on remand, only to be sexually abused by a monk in whose care he was placed.
He says he worries that "it's all just words … a paper exercise", and that individual perpetrators won't be brought to justice. He says he would like to see a full-scale police investigation. "The cats and dogs in the street know there was institutional abuse. There's no point in having an inquiry to tell us what we already know," he says.
But the inquiry is clear that it is not within its purview to instigate prosecutions as a result of any allegations bought to its attention. It can, however, report "matters of a criminal nature" to the police, who could then refer cases to the public prosecution service.
The final issue that victims want clarity on is compensation. The inquiry's terms of reference state that compensation "is a matter that the executive will discuss and agree following receipt of the inquiry and investigation report". The final report is expected in January 2016. But for McGuckin, who is now a spokeswoman for the charity Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse, and whose brother was also abused in a separate home for boys, compensation is a crucial part of redress.
"It's time to pay up and to compensate victims so they can live the rest of their lives with no worry of deprivation," she says. "We want justice. It's been a long time coming."
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Brothers recall terrifying cycle of sexual and physical abuse at children’s home
Willie Kelly is still haunted by his childhood experiences at Rubane House.
At a time when they should have been enjoying growing up, the brothers were separated from their siblings, and plunged into a terrifying cycle of sexual and physical abuse in one of the North’s most notorious institutions.
For Patrick Murphy and Willie Kelly, the painful memories of that period will never fade. Both are now aged in their 70s and say they will never forget the horrors of their youth.
The shocking nature of the abuse which children were subjected to at Rubane House in Kircubbin, Co Down and other institutions is currently being investigated by the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.
Last week, The De La Salle Brothers – which ran Rubane House – was one of two Catholic orders that said sorry for the abuse children suffered in their children’s homes in Northern Ireland.
The Sisters of Nazareth and the De La Salle Brothers issued apologies on the second day of the inquiry in Banbridge – the biggest public inquiry into child abuse ever to take place in the UK.
It is investigating abuse claims in 13 children’s homes and juvenile justice centres in Northern Ireland, from 1922 to 1995, including Rubane House.
Upwards on 100 people from the Omagh and Strabane areas are said to have submitted evidence to the inquiry.
However, the brothers are not taking part because they feel it has come “too late” for them.
“I am 77 years of age now and the chances of me getting anything other than a feeble sorry are remote,” said Patrick. “But if we had been born in Donegal then we’d have received compensation.
“It is hard to say why all of this has taken so long and to be quite honest our view is that they’re only going to be touching the surface of what went on.
“My intention was to take this to the grave with me. But when the inquiries started in the Republic my son began asking me about my experiences because he knew I’d been in a children’s home here.
“He started to make the connection. The real truth became apparent and he couldn’t believe that I had held onto those memories for all these years.”
Patrick and Willie never met for almost four decades following their mother’s death. Both now live in Strabane and it was only by chance that they discovered their shared experience in Rubane House.
“You could have knocked me over with a feather when Willie told me that he had also been in Rubane House,” said Patrick.
After spending most of their lives being separated from each other and their other brothers and sisters, the family is now reunited. Despite the brothers’ reluctance to take part in the inquiry, Survivors NI is appealing for other local people who have been abused to contact them.
Spokesperson Margaret McGuckin told the Ulster Herald, “Our organisation has been contacted by upwards of 100 people from the West Tyrone area. Many more have not come forward, but I would urge them to contact us because there is nothing to fear,” Ms McGuckin said.
“Victims now have protection and, while we have given a guarded welcome to the apologies by two religious orders in the Catholic Church, this must be supported by their full co-operation with the inquiry.
“At last the victims of this abuse have been given a voice and I have seen grown men and women cry tears of relief that their stories are finally being listened to.
“The pain which they have carried with them for a lifetime never goes away. There will be more heartache ahead for them, but it will be worth it.”
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Alleged Northumberland care home sex abuse victim speaks out
Alleged historical sex abuse victim Terry Priestner has
spoken out in a bid to finally get justice and has Blyth MP Ronnie
Campbell helping fight his case
Alleged historical sex abuse victim Terry Priestner has spoken out about his battle for justice.
After getting MP Ronnie Campbell to help him fight his case, he hopes other victims will come forward.
Yesterday The Journal told how Mr Campbell, MP for Blyth Valley, urged victims of historical abuse in North East children’s homes to stand up and be counted.
He highlighted the case of his constituent Mr Priestner in parliament, after the 52-year-old alleged he was abused physically and sexually in care homes in Northumberland in the 1970s. Police have not arrested anyone over the claims.
Dad-of-three Mr Priestner, of Blyth, said: “This is not just for me but for all the others who have been physically or sexually abused while in care homes in the ‘70s. Jimmy Savile is big news and every time I watch something about it, it brings it all back.
“When I talk about what happened to me in Northumberland County Council care homes I go back to being a child. It has affected me throughout my life and I want Northumberland County Council to take responsibility and an inquiry launched,” claimed Mr Priestner.
In Westminster on Wednesday, Mr Campbell said authorities had been quick to act over claims of abuse by celebrities such as Jimmy Savile, but had not shown the same urgency when it came to his constituent.
He said he had no way of knowing if Mr Priestner’s allegations were true. But he said that Operation Rose, an inquiry into child abuse in the North East which was widely criticised for ruining the lives of innocent carers, teachers and social workers, may have missed a genuine case.
Operation Rose was conducted by Northumbria Police after a woman in her 20s disclosed she and a friend had been abused as children in care.
Officers wrote to 1,800 former residents and homes in Northumberland, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland. The three-year inquiry led to six convictions, with the final case in 2002.
Mr Campbell told ministers that Mr Priestner had been repeatedly told abuse was “just what happened in the 1970s”. The MP said: “Terry Priestner wants publicity, he want publicity because he had other inmates with him in the homes who were abused in the homes as well... he doesn’t know where they are and he wants them to come forward.”
Coun Robert Arckless, the post holder for children’s services said “Northumberland County Council is aware of Mr Priestner’s allegations and has spoken to him on several occasions. We understand these alleged incidents took place between 1969 and 1976 and were investigated by Northumbria Police as part of Operation Rose between 1997 and 2002 and the local authority fully co-operated with the police during this investigation.
“We understand there were no prosecutions following these allegations. None of the Children’s Homes attended by Mr Priestner currently exist and none of the staff working in those homes are currently employed by Northumberland County Council.
“We will continue to offer support to Mr Priestner should he wish to speak to one of our safeguarding team.”
Northumbria Police’s Chief Constable Jo Farrell said: “The most serious of the sexual abuse allegations made by the man were investigated during Operation Rose and his case was reviewed again by specialist child abuse investigators in 2012. It has been concluded that there was no evidence upon which new charges could be brought.”
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A LABOUR MP has urged victims of historical abuse in childrens' homes in the North-East to come forward after one of his constituents failed in a bid for justice alone.
Ronnie Campbell, MP for Blyth Valley, highlighted the case of his constituent Terry Priestner, who alleges he was abused physically and sexually in a series of care homes in Northumberland in the 1970s.
Mr Campbell said the case was not proven during the major Operation Rose, which looked into a raft of complaints in Northumbria in the late 1990s, and told a debate in Westminster Hall his constituent had been left with no route to justice.
He said Mr Priestner had been repeatedly told abuse was just what happened in the 1970s.
But children and families minister Edward Timpson said Mr Priestner's case had been looked at by police and no way to proceed had been found.
He added Mr Priestner could contact the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) if he felt this decision was wrong.
Mr Campbell said: "The attitude is these things happened in homes - that attitude at the time... of the police, of most people.
"Terry Priestner wants publicity, he want publicity because he had other inmates with him in the homes who were abused in the homes as well... he doesn't know where they are and he wants them to come forward.
"He says these abusers, the Jimmy Saviles and the rest of them celebrities, they are aren't getting away with it and neither are these people who were working for the council social services.
"They should not get away with it."
Responding to the debate, Mr Timpson said: "We are too well aware there continue to be shocking, appalling revelations of child abuse, particularly involving our most vulnerable children unable to live with their own families.
"I was very saddened to hear Mr Priestner does not feel he has
received justice that he should be entitled to as a result of the abuse
he has testified to.
"I can't go into commentary on individual cases and the police investigation is an operational matter for Northumbria Police.
"However, I do understand the protecting vulnerable persons unit within the Northumbria Police crime department has investigated the allegations your constituent has made.
"I also understand that following substantial inquiries they have not been able to take any further action in relation to Mr Priestner's allegations.
"I can appreciate and understand Mr Priestner must feel extremely frustrated by this position and if he remains unhappy about the way the police have handled this case, then he can of course raise his concerns with the IPCC."
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A man from Blyth claims that the years of physical and sexual abuse he suffered in North East children's homes have been swept under the carpet.
Terry Priestner says when he complained, the police told him "that's how things were those days".
Now - more than 30 years on - he is fighting for justice, with the support of his MP. But the police insist they have done all they can.
Gregg Easteal reports.
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A man from Blyth claims police told him "that's just how thing's were in those days" when he made a string of complaints about physical and sexual abuse while at North East care homes in the early 1970s.
Terry Priestner is calling for his case to be urgently re investigated. Northumbria Police says it treats all allegations of this kind seriously and sensitively but that there is no new evidence upon which charges could be brought.
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After getting MP Ronnie Campbell to help him fight his case, he hopes other victims will come forward.
Yesterday The Journal told how Mr Campbell, MP for Blyth Valley, urged victims of historical abuse in North East children’s homes to stand up and be counted.
He highlighted the case of his constituent Mr Priestner in parliament, after the 52-year-old alleged he was abused physically and sexually in care homes in Northumberland in the 1970s. Police have not arrested anyone over the claims.
Dad-of-three Mr Priestner, of Blyth, said: “This is not just for me but for all the others who have been physically or sexually abused while in care homes in the ‘70s. Jimmy Savile is big news and every time I watch something about it, it brings it all back.
“When I talk about what happened to me in Northumberland County Council care homes I go back to being a child. It has affected me throughout my life and I want Northumberland County Council to take responsibility and an inquiry launched,” claimed Mr Priestner.
In Westminster on Wednesday, Mr Campbell said authorities had been quick to act over claims of abuse by celebrities such as Jimmy Savile, but had not shown the same urgency when it came to his constituent.
He said he had no way of knowing if Mr Priestner’s allegations were true. But he said that Operation Rose, an inquiry into child abuse in the North East which was widely criticised for ruining the lives of innocent carers, teachers and social workers, may have missed a genuine case.
Operation Rose was conducted by Northumbria Police after a woman in her 20s disclosed she and a friend had been abused as children in care.
Officers wrote to 1,800 former residents and homes in Northumberland, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland. The three-year inquiry led to six convictions, with the final case in 2002.
Mr Campbell told ministers that Mr Priestner had been repeatedly told abuse was “just what happened in the 1970s”. The MP said: “Terry Priestner wants publicity, he want publicity because he had other inmates with him in the homes who were abused in the homes as well... he doesn’t know where they are and he wants them to come forward.”
Coun Robert Arckless, the post holder for children’s services said “Northumberland County Council is aware of Mr Priestner’s allegations and has spoken to him on several occasions. We understand these alleged incidents took place between 1969 and 1976 and were investigated by Northumbria Police as part of Operation Rose between 1997 and 2002 and the local authority fully co-operated with the police during this investigation.
“We understand there were no prosecutions following these allegations. None of the Children’s Homes attended by Mr Priestner currently exist and none of the staff working in those homes are currently employed by Northumberland County Council.
“We will continue to offer support to Mr Priestner should he wish to speak to one of our safeguarding team.”
Northumbria Police’s Chief Constable Jo Farrell said: “The most serious of the sexual abuse allegations made by the man were investigated during Operation Rose and his case was reviewed again by specialist child abuse investigators in 2012. It has been concluded that there was no evidence upon which new charges could be brought.”
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Tyne and Wear News
Victims of alleged historical abuse in North-East care homes urged to come forward by MP
12:41pm Wednesday 6th
November 2013
November 2013
Ronnie Campbell
A LABOUR MP has urged victims of historical abuse in childrens' homes in the North-East to come forward after one of his constituents failed in a bid for justice alone.
Ronnie Campbell, MP for Blyth Valley, highlighted the case of his constituent Terry Priestner, who alleges he was abused physically and sexually in a series of care homes in Northumberland in the 1970s.
Mr Campbell said the case was not proven during the major Operation Rose, which looked into a raft of complaints in Northumbria in the late 1990s, and told a debate in Westminster Hall his constituent had been left with no route to justice.
He said Mr Priestner had been repeatedly told abuse was just what happened in the 1970s.
But children and families minister Edward Timpson said Mr Priestner's case had been looked at by police and no way to proceed had been found.
He added Mr Priestner could contact the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) if he felt this decision was wrong.
Mr Campbell said: "The attitude is these things happened in homes - that attitude at the time... of the police, of most people.
"Terry Priestner wants publicity, he want publicity because he had other inmates with him in the homes who were abused in the homes as well... he doesn't know where they are and he wants them to come forward.
"He says these abusers, the Jimmy Saviles and the rest of them celebrities, they are aren't getting away with it and neither are these people who were working for the council social services.
"They should not get away with it."
Responding to the debate, Mr Timpson said: "We are too well aware there continue to be shocking, appalling revelations of child abuse, particularly involving our most vulnerable children unable to live with their own families.
"I can't go into commentary on individual cases and the police investigation is an operational matter for Northumbria Police.
"However, I do understand the protecting vulnerable persons unit within the Northumbria Police crime department has investigated the allegations your constituent has made.
"I also understand that following substantial inquiries they have not been able to take any further action in relation to Mr Priestner's allegations.
"I can appreciate and understand Mr Priestner must feel extremely frustrated by this position and if he remains unhappy about the way the police have handled this case, then he can of course raise his concerns with the IPCC."
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Full report: Man claims police dismissed abuse claims
A man from Blyth claims that the years of physical and sexual abuse he suffered in North East children's homes have been swept under the carpet.
Terry Priestner says when he complained, the police told him "that's how things were those days".
Now - more than 30 years on - he is fighting for justice, with the support of his MP. But the police insist they have done all they can.
Gregg Easteal reports.
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North East man claims police dismissed abuse claims
A man from Blyth claims police told him "that's just how thing's were in those days" when he made a string of complaints about physical and sexual abuse while at North East care homes in the early 1970s.
Terry Priestner is calling for his case to be urgently re investigated. Northumbria Police says it treats all allegations of this kind seriously and sensitively but that there is no new evidence upon which charges could be brought.
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