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[Sexual] abuse – The church (PhD)

[Sexual] abuse – The church (PhD)

“They legalised everything and that was not what this procedure was about” – Mary

“It wasn’t the intention of the complaints procedure to mentally destroy the people who filed a complaint. But the lawyers of the opposing party did their best to simply break those people, by pretending that it was a legal case. They legalised everything and that was not what this procedure was about. So I don’t […]

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[Sexual] abuse – The church (PhD)

“It just cost me, I had to start bringing up all kinds of things that they [the Complaints Committee] just literally wanted to hear out of my mouth” – Annette

“I had to be heard, of course, so the committee came all the way from Amsterdam to the closed institute in Tilburg to sit in a closed ward. . . . So in itself that people took the trouble [coming to me], but it actually only cost me. Because I was in a really bad […]

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[Sexual] abuse – The church (PhD)

Some also said: “I already have enough on my plate, I don’t need that {your story} added to it.” – Sandra

“Within the mediation procedure there was a possibility to have a conversation together with my children, but the children rejected that possibility and so did my family. But it was possible so that was very nice. And would I still want it now, I think it is still possible but maybe I would have to […]

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[Sexual] abuse – The church (PhD)

“I hope they never have to face it” – Michel

Relational redress

↳ Choosing not to burden family

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[Sexual] abuse – The church (PhD)

“And {my son}, I don’t want to bother him with that either” – Wouter

RELATIONAL REDRESS

↳ Choosing not to burden family

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[Sexual] abuse – The church (PhD)

“{My husband said:} “Now I just get it.” – Mieke

RELATIONAL REDRESS

↳ Self-awareness and understanding

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[Sexual] abuse – The church (PhD)

“I definitely think it would make a positive difference if children of {victim-survivors}, could have or get more insight” – Willem

RELATIONAL REDRESS

↳ Self-awareness and understanding

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[Sexual] abuse – The church (PhD)

“…it was time to tell my family what I was doing there” – Christian

RELATIONAL REDRESS

↳ Abuse disclosure

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Multivoiced Archive, [Sexual] abuse – The church (PhD)

“So I then kept it to myself for about another ten years” – Sandra

Relational redress

↳ Abuse disclosure

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