SLUT SHAMED
The Church, Charity Commission, Sexual Abuse & Conflicts Of Interest
Another day, another watchdog shows itself unworthy of the name. The Upsetter regularly highlights how concerns over independence and competency are enduring issues for the main criminal justice regulators in England and Wales.
There’s the CCRC (a supposed miscarriage of justice watchdog), the IPCC (its police equivalent), the SRA and BSB (monitoring bent lawyers) and the FCA (for City suits).
To this alphabet soup can now be added the Charity Commission (CC) which polices sexual and financial crimes done in the name of doing good.
The Commission regulates around 170,000 charities that raise and spend more than £90 billion annually.
Over a quarter of these registered charities are dedicated to the God business, whose history of using ‘moral authority’ and Establishment enablers to cover up sexual abuse should make any watchdog extra vigilant and extra keen to avoid the merest hint of bias.
Instead, the Commission’s board is an Establishment affair, as well-gonged as it is connected to the Church, the Tories, the City and royal family such as to make a mockery of its claimed independence.
The institutional arrogance of the charity regulator was recently on display at the High Court in London, where a progressive judge kicked the Commission’s well-cushioned arse.
The judgment this month roundly rejected the charity watchdog’s efforts to restrict parliamentary scrutiny of its decision making over two separate complaints of sexual abuse by religious leaders.
The complainants are a British man groomed by Catholic priests when he was a schoolboy and an Australian woman used as a sex doll by a Christian leader with connections to the Tories.
Damian Murray and Lara Hall waived their anonymity at the hearing, where The Upsetter was present to finish off its long and lone reporting of this important scandal.
37-year-old Hall had flown from Australia for her court date only to feel “slut shamed” once more by the Charity Commission. Along with 67-year-old Murray, they have called for the resignation of its bosses.
MPs are also on the warpath as The Upsetter wraps up this sordid saga, first exposed here and here, now that the mainstream media has finally caught up.
