by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Feb 28, 2021 | News
Thousands of New Zealanders were sexually abused as children in state care and faith-based institutions, but will never get the justice they need to move forward. MARINÉ LOURENS reports.
He was 12 years old when the abuse started.
The principal at his elite Christchurch Catholic school would call the boys to his office to check their lunch boxes. When J arrived, the principal would take him into his office and tell him his parents had sent him to the school “to help him become a man”.
It started with the principal giving him a pornographic magazine to look at, and asking him how it made him feel. Over the next two years, J was raped weekly, mostly in the principal’s office, but sometimes in the cathedral behind the school or the changing rooms of the local community swimming pool.
“When he raped me, I couldn’t ride my bike home.”
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Feb 28, 2021 | News
The contemporary era of organized peer support owes its success in no small part to the mental health consumer movement of the 1970s. This social movement empowered former mental health service users to help each other and advocate for themselves. From these humble roots, peer support quickly found new applications in chronic disease management (diabetes, mental health, heart disease, cancer, asthma, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse), screening and prevention (cancer, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases), and maternal and child health (breastfeeding, nutrition, post-partum depression). As the philosophy of peer support slipped into the mainstream, public interest is reaching an all-time high.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Feb 28, 2021 | News
Child sexual abuse material — images and videos of kids being sexually abused — is a growing international problem. Almost 70 million reports of this material were made to US authorities in 2019. That figure rose still further in 2020, as the COVID pandemic drove children and adults to spend more time online
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By Michael Salter
Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology, UNSW
20 Feb 2021
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Feb 22, 2021 | News
This paper reviews recent Australian and international research on the long-term effects of child sexual abuse. It aims to assist practitioners and policy-makers who work with survivors of sexual abuse and their families to understand the significant findings from this large and sometimes complex body of research.
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By Judith Cashmore, Rita Shackel
2013
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Feb 15, 2021 | News
A man who came through state care in foster homes, a boys’ home, corrective training and eventually prison, believes his life has been set back at least 30 years by the way he was treated and the physical and psychological abuse he received.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Feb 12, 2021 | News, Video
A prolific paedophile who posed as girls online to get young boys to send him indecent images of themselves, leaving some of them suicidal, has been sentenced to 25 years in jail.
David Wilson, 36, was prosecuted for 96 child sex abuse offences relating to 51 victims, but the National Crime Agency (NCA) said it has evidence that he approached more than 5,000 children globally.
The agency said as many as 500 of them sent abuse material to Wilson, of Kirstead, King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
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4 Feb 2021
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Feb 12, 2021 | News
The number of boys who say they were sexually abused by a former Rosmini College teacher has increased to at least 12 – but a decision on whether or not to extradite him is yet to be made.
Brother William Jackson, who went on to become a priest, was a music teacher at the Auckland school during the late 1960s and early 1970s before being sent back to England following allegations he was sexually abusing boys during singing lessons.
He is now living in a retirement village for Rosminian priests in Surrey.
Numerous men have come forward saying they too were abused after Jackson’s abuse was revealed by the Herald last year, one of whom has already reached out to police and a further two who are considering laying complaints.
Two other men have contacted the Catholic Church’s National Office for Professional Standards to begin a formal complaints process.
Published in NZ Herald
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Feb 5, 2021 | News
The number of boys who say they were sexually abused by a former Rosmini College teacher has increased to at least 12 – but a decision on whether or not to extradite him is yet to be made.
Brother William Jackson, who went on to become a priest, was a music teacher at the Auckland school during the late 1960s and early 1970s before being sent back to England following allegations he was sexually abusing boys during singing lessons.
He is now living in a retirement village for Rosminian priests in Surrey.
Numerous men have come forward saying they too were abused after Jackson’s abuse was revealed by the Herald last year, one of whom has already reached out to police and a further two who are considering laying complaints.
Two other men have contacted the Catholic Church’s National Office for Professional Standards to begin a formal complaints process.
Published in NZ Herald
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Jan 27, 2021 | News
The 26-year-old from Tasmania was awarded the honour last night, having already been named the Apple Isle’s Australian of the Year.
Ms Tame was awarded for her tireless advocacy for sexual assault survivors, resulting in the overturning of Tasmanian laws preventing survivors from speaking out.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Jan 25, 2021 | News
A group representing some survivors of abuse in faith-based care wants churches to come out and support the call for the setting up of an independent body to deal with all complaints of abuse.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Jan 24, 2021 | News
Recent research shows integration of education in group therapy has benefits for survivors. Although this research references therapy led (psycho-educational) groups, these educational benefits can also be made available to survivors participating in peer support groups.
Wilkerson, Alexis L.. “A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis of Psychoeducational Groups for the Treatment of Psychopathology Resulting from Child Sexual Abuse” (2020). Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Dissertation, Counseling and Human Services, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/f7dy-xx17
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By Alexis Lynnette Wilkerson
Old Dominion University
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Jan 24, 2021 | News
A victim who will be awarded $2.45 million in compensation for sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of a Catholic priest has spoken out about the “severe” impact the abuse continues to have on his life.
Warning: This story deals with child abuse and rape.
Published in ABC News
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Jan 5, 2021 | News
Male rape remains largely obscure in communication discourses; on rare occasions it suffers juxtaposition against its much-publicised counterpart, female rape. Yet victims of male rape too suffer various physical, sexual, emotional and mental health risks, as well as lack of much-needed support systems.
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Authors: Dr Karabo Sitto, Prof. Elizabeth Lubinga
December 2020
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Dec 27, 2020 | News
Victims of sexual abuse face unique emotional challenges. Among them, the male survivors of sexual assault have largely been neglected in the literature, being traditionally considered “against the norm” and symbolic of reduced masculinity.
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Authors: Sarbopriya Das1, Soma Pramanik1, Deepshikha Ray1, Debanjan Banerjee
2020
by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Dec 27, 2020 | News
Mike Subritzky is a team of one committed to helping heal the unknown number of male sexual assault survivors in Taranaki.
Subritzky, a trained counsellor with a background in chaplaincy, runs Male Survivors Taranaki which falls under the national body Male Survivors Aotearoa.
He says statistics show 1 in 6 men have been sexually abused but it’s hard to know exact statistics as for many men it’s their darkest secret, and they never come forward.
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by Male Survivors Aotearoa | Dec 22, 2020 | News
Police investigating historical sexual offending allegations at Dilworth School in Auckland have identified over 80 additional accusers.
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