“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 […]
Read more“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 […]
Read more“[…] the letterhead said: ‘a complaint does not have to be based on the truth’. […] I was so furious.” – Mieke
“I had already received a letter that I had to go [to the hearing] and the letterhead said: ‘a complaint does not have to be based on the truth’. That’s when I exploded and threw the entire kitchen to pieces. When I went to the hearing and there was someone from the diocese, I said: […]
Read more“During the hearing I felt like I was the young woman with the feelings of a six-year-old girl” – Sandra
“During the hearing I felt like I was the young woman with the feelings of a six-year-old girl. Outwardly I am a woman of 55, but then you have to tell those seven adults who are standing in front of you what had happened to you. And that’s almost impossible.“ Emotional difficulty of recounting abuse […]
Read more“I think the decision by the court in Den Bosch was worse than the abuse itself” – Arnold-Jan
“I think the decision by the court in Den Bosch was worse than the abuse itself. Truly outrageous. Judges are supposed to deliver justice, but instead they hit you in the face with all their legal tricks. . . . Honestly, I can’t live with it like this. I was denied the right to call […]
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