Kindergarten Lager

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In & Out

23th October 2009 - It happens in a nursery school near Reggio Emilia. We celebrate the Berlin Wall falling, but new walls are raised up every day. Are we going to put ourself in a ghetto keeping out other people?

School Grisanti Luzzara: the case of building Allende
Discussion in Council is committed to continuing with the commission
Read the translated article.

(Source: ilgiornaledireggio.it)

News Review

Sentenced to two years the father ogre

RIMINI, 06/11/2009 - He was sentenced to two years the 40 years old worker from Rimini guilty of having abused not once but several times of her younger daughter, who at the time was only 4. The child, who is now 6, confessed everything to his mother, who also have a two-years younger daughter with the man and was warned by her parents. She had understood that her daughter says she was invited by his father to pick up the penis, to fondle and kiss him. Little had gone even further in detail, explaining that on one occasion she had refused, saying clearly that was shit. In vain, during the trial that followed, the man tried to explain that it was a misunderstanding. The challenge is to understand whether the child's mother will even start practice to ask the Juvenile Court to remove the man the paternal authority.

(Source: romagnanoi.it)

Raped her daughter-in-law and 5yo grandson: arrested the ogre

ARIANO IRPINO, 05/11/2009 - A young mother of 25 years suffered the abuses of the father-in-law, a 65 years old farmer who lived with her in a dilapidated and badly kept cottage, for 9 years, since he was still a minor. She had always been silent, perhaps because the ogre had always threatened, but his attention in the recent past have also targeted his 5 years old daughter and in July she reported everything to the agents of the Commissioner of Police Tricolle. A terrific story, which has aroused the police official who completed surveys and then translated into prison the man in prison.

(Source: irpinianews.it)

Abusing 12 years old daughter of his common-law wife. In handcuffs.

VARESE, 05/11/2009 - It seemed like another love story between two South Americans, but the reality was quite different. Months of suffering, from April to now passed in silence until the dramatic revelation occurred a few days ago, the sexual abuses confessed by the woman's daughter, a girl of just 12 years old and made by the partner of the woman. The ogre, a 40 years old South American, was taken in by some fellow near Milan, but was soon caught.

(Source: satelionews.it)

Fake photographer lured minors

ROME, 06/11/2009 - He waited for them out of the school "Parini", where he was well known by all students, and lured them with the promise of free photo book and an easy climb to the world of fashion. The 42-year old, actually a school bus driver, leading to his house - without pressure or threats - girls aged 11 to 13 years ready to do anything for a photo on a glossy magazine, portraying them as a group or alone, half-naked or in lingerie on bed in provocative poses, then catalog them in his private archive. In many cases were the same girls to bring home the "costumes". Indicated by a 13 year old perhaps jealous, during a normal drugs control in local schools he took the complaint at large for child pornography.

(Source: iltempo.it)

Abused his daughter for 10 years

CASTELNOVO MONTI, 06/11/2009 - Has forced her daughter of only 11 years old to suffer and perform sexual acts, has tied his other son to a bed with chains, striking him with his belt. Subjected the wife to constant harassment and death threats. An entire family of a country of our Appenino suffered in silence for almost 10 years the violence of a man who called himself "father" or "husband". For a mother and her two sons, who have lived in fear, now the nightmare is over. The police have arrested a 53 years old worker. The charges against him weigh like rocks: sexual violence against the minor child, abuse in the family, private violence.

(Source: telereggio.it)

Principal arrested for harrassment

It was the video of a hidden cam placed by police in his office in a School of Sciacca (Sicily, Italy) to frame him. It's there where the 61yo principal calls the school girls and where he makes harrassments and abuses. The victims are girls between 14 and 15 years old. The principal has been arrested by order of judge Salvatore Giannino on request by attorney Vincenzo Pantaleo.

Images from the videos are very clear and they show the principal approaching the victims, make hard comments, touching the embarassed and astonished girls. The man is accused of harrassment and sexual abuses. The investigation started from some girls complaints. The principal is now in jail.

(Source: unitaliano.myblog.it)

Facere et Docere

Report Details Abuses in Irish Reformatories
By SARAH LYALL

LONDON, May 20, 2009 — Tens of thousands of Irish children were sexually, physically and emotionally abused by nuns, priests and others over 60 years in a network of church-run residential schools meant to care for the poor, the vulnerable and the unwanted, according to a report released in Dublin on Wednesday.

The 2,600-page report paints a picture of institutions run more like Dickensian orphanages than 20th-century schools, characterized by privation and cruelty that could be both casual and choreographed.

“A climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment, permeated most of the institutions,” the report says. In the boys’ schools, it says, sexual abuse was “endemic.”

The report, by a state-appointed commission, took nine years to produce and was meant to help Ireland face and move on from one of the ugliest aspects of its recent history. But it has infuriated many victims’ groups because it does not name any of the hundreds of individuals accused of abuse and thus cannot be used as a basis for prosecutions.

It was delayed because of a lawsuit brought by the Christian Brothers, the religious order that ran many of the boys’ schools and that fought, ultimately successfully, to have the abusers’ names omitted. In 2003, the commission’s first chairwoman resigned, saying that Ireland’s Department of Education had refused to release crucial documents. The report covers a period from the 1930s to the 1990s, when the last of the institutions closed.

It exposes for the first time the scope of the problem in Ireland, as well as how the government and the church colluded in perpetuating an abusive system. The revelations have also had the effect of stripping the Catholic Church, which once set the agenda in Ireland, of much of its moral authority and political power.

The report singles out Ireland’s Department of Education, meant to regulate the schools, for running “toothless” inspections that overlooked glaring problems and deferred to church authority.

The report is based in part on old church records of unreported abuse cases and in part on the anonymous testimony of 1,060 former students from a variety of 216 mostly church-run institutions, including reformatories and so-called industrial schools, set up to tend to neglected, orphaned or abandoned children.

Most of the former students are now 50 to 80 years old.

Some 30,000 children were sent to such places over six decades, the report says, often against their families’ wishes and because of pressure from powerful local priests. They were sent because their families could not afford to care for them, because their mothers had committed adultery or given birth out of wedlock, or because one or both of their parents was ill, drunken or abusive. They were also sent because of petty crime, like stealing food, or because they had missed school.

Many of the former students said that they had not learned their own identities until decades later. They also said that their parents had unsuccessfully tried to reclaim them from the state.

In a litany that sounds as if it comes from the records of a P.O.W. camp, the report chronicles some of the forms of physical abuse suffered in the boys’ schools:

“Punching, flogging, assault and bodily attacks, hitting with the hand, kicking, ear pulling, hair pulling, head shaving, beating on the soles of the feet, burning, scalding, stabbing, severe beatings with or without clothes, being made to kneel and stand in fixed positions for lengthy periods, made to sleep outside overnight, being forced into cold or excessively hot baths and showers, hosed down with cold water before being beaten, beaten while hanging from hooks on the wall, being set upon by dogs, being restrained in order to be beaten, physical assaults by more than one person, and having objects thrown at them.”

Some of the schools operated essentially as workhouses. In one school, Goldenbridge, girls as young as 7 spent hours a day making rosaries by stringing beads onto lengths of wire. They were given quotas: 600 beads on weekdays and 900 on Sundays.

Girls were routinely sexually abused, often by more than one person at a time, the report said, in “dormitories, schools, motor vehicles, bathrooms, staff bedrooms, churches, sacristies, fields, parlors, the residences of clergy, holiday locations and while with godparents and employers.”

The Vatican had no response. But leaders of various religious orders — who often argued during the investigations that the abuse was a relic of another time, reflecting past societal standards — issued abject apologies on Wednesday, taking care to frame the problem as something that is now behind them.

Cardinal Sean Brady, the Catholic primate of All Ireland, said in a statement that he was “profoundly sorry and deeply ashamed,” adding, “I hope the publication of today’s report will help heal the hurts of victims and address the wrongs of the past.”

David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, a group based in St. Louis, said that while the report had failed in its duty to bring the perpetrators to justice, it had been clear about the failings of the church.

“While horrific, widespread reports of abuse and cover-up are sadly quite common, the significance here is that a government panel is conclusively saying that the finger-pointing and blame-shifting and excuse-making of the church hierarchy is bogus,” he said in an interview.

The commission was formed in 2000, after an explosive series of radio programs and documentaries in the 1990s began exposing a terrible secret that had been kept by an entire society: the details of what went on in the children’s homes. In 1999, Bertie Ahern, then the prime minister, issued a blanket apology to the victims of the abuse.

Since then, the accusations and the question of justice have been a preoccupation across Ireland and among Irish emigrants around the world. In 2002, the Catholic Church in Ireland agreed to pay $175 million to compensate victims of sexual abuse by members of the clergy. A separate group has paid out some $1.5 billion so far to more than 10,000 people who have claimed they were abused in state and church-run institutions.

Terence McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org, an American group that maintains an Internet archive of material related to Catholic abuse, said that the report had failed by not going far enough.

“The report is significant in that it provides a detailed anatomy of how the abuse occurred and the institutions in which it occurred,” he said in an interview. “The problem is that you spend almost 10 years and who knows how much money, and you never get to the point of saying who was responsible.”

(Source: nytimes.com)

Picked on

"Professor, how is my daughter getting on?" And he put the pistol on the table

The father of a student after he entered the classroom and once came face to face with the professor, he pulled out a pistol from the pocket and has rests with nonchalance on the table

Florence, 29 November 2007 - The room is small. Here the professor receives alternately parents of pupils for talks on the educational achievement of children. It is the dad of a shaky performance by the student. The door closes behind the two. Expatriates face to face by unforeseen developments. It happens, in fact, that the teacher would not have ever imagined. The man spoke, and meanwhile slip the pistol from the pocket. He does it with nonchalance, as if, instead of a weapon, were a bunch of keys, a pen, a packet of cigarettes. Meanwhile talks, said yes, in short, that his daughter is not so bad, that the first professor picked her on, which he knows that the teacher home address.

What has the teacher tried in those interminable minute interview is not know. The fact is that without getting upset, the professor was able to finalize the meeting, as long as the parent has not decided about getting pistol into the pocket and go on.
"The episode has not shaken that much teacher, I told my deputy that the professor has confided" swears the headmaster of a school in the area of care. But it is inevitable that quell'insolita hours of receipt and quell'inusuale behavior of the parent, could not stay inside the business school.
This fact was reported to law enforcement agencies. And in the hours after the parent was searched at his home. At home they found two scacciacani. It ends here. The opening of an investigation and criminal proceedings are due acts.

It was one week ago Tuesday. Since then, and for another week, the girl was no longer seen at school, after them while the voices of a voluntary transfer to another school. Yesterday, however, the student has returned regularly in the classroom. "Although the professor is not the reason was particularly shaken the headmaster insists he still considered appropriate that what happened was brought to the attention of investigators. In the coming days about this event will be held a meeting of all teachers.

(Source: repubblica.it)

Educator under accusation

Educator for problem kids under accusation for pedophilia
Victims are two 12yo girls. One with srious mental illness.

A voluntary educator for problem kids. He's a 65yo ex-banker who voluntary worked in a school. A granpa with long handsm now under accusation for sexual abuses after the compliant of a 12yo girl.


"Anna", we call her this way, told to be touched by the old man, and also a school-pal of her, with serious mental illness. They also refer about indecent words told to another young boy. Everything started in 2005 with the compliant from Anna and her school which started an internal investigation. Anna's story was confirmed during the interrogation, when the girl told about the abuses. A more difficult experience for the other child who told about her and her hobbies, but was blocked when she had to talk about the man and what he did to her. The judge Vincenzo Tutinelli will decide if this will be a prove against the old man who denies any charge.
The sure thing is abuses in places like schools churches and gyms are on the increase. Every year we count about 100 new cases. Sometimes schools are useful to investigation, sometimes internal investigations demage police work.

(Source: Epolis Milano)

Short memories

The last 16th May, I published this strip about the presumed abuses in a school in Rignano Flaminio. Six monhs later, new impulse to the investigation is coming from the web, after some suspects was freed and a book, "I have seen the black man" by journalist Claudio Cerasa, which tells about this case so complicated and delicate. Thay are still discussing if the abuses are real or if the testimony of the children was manipulated by their alarmist parents. As I fear in my strip, in the meanwhile, people have forgotten. Someone else probably not.