Cempaka Belanda: Independent investigation into abuse in children’s homes

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Independent investigation into abuse in children’s homes

Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 2 April 2010 - 6:00pm | By Robert Chesal

(Photo: RNW/Chris Keulen)

“One of the brothers was a sadist. He beat me with a wooden stick on my bare bottom until I bled. While he was doing it I had to shout: Happy Easter! Happy Easter!”

The child welfare office took Pieter Dekkers (69) from his parents when he was five. Until he was nineteen he lived at the St Willibrordus Boarding School in Breda, a Roman Catholic home for children.

Investigation

Outgoing ministers André Rouvoet (Youth and Family) and Ernst Hirsch Ballin (Justice) have announced that an investigation will be held into whether children were abused at such homes in the second half of the last century.

One of the reasons for the investigation were reports by RTL Nieuws that abuse had been committed on a wide scale at a boarding school in Tilburg. At the beginning of March, lawyers told the newspaper NRC Handelsblad that the government could be legally liable for the alleged abuse if it could be demonstrated that the supervision of the Child Welfare Council had been negligent.

Lack of love

Mr Dekkers says that members of the Congregation of the Brothers of Huijbergen, who ran the Willibrordus Boarding School, also sexually abused children who had been taken from their homes because of extreme poverty. “However, in retrospect, what I found was the worst of all was the total absence of love. I would have been better off in that dump of a home, because at least I would have received some sort of affection.

He says there was no decent supervision of the care the children received. “The Dutch authorities share in the responsibility for the beastly behaviour at boarding schools at the time. The term child welfare gives me a near cardiac arrest.”

Mr Dekkers’ story is only one of many. The government entrusted tens of thousands of boys and girls to religious and secular boarding homes in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Loet van Hoogenhuizen (69) was also in the care of the Congregation of the Brothers of Huijbergen, where he stayed until he was twelve. His story is much the same as Pieter Dekkers’. “You stayed there for years without being able to go home, from a very young age. You were at the mercy of the lay-brothers, priests and nuns.”

Dumped

Mr Dekkers: “The atmosphere was bad. You did not receive attention or love. There was a lot of cruelty and humiliation. Brother O. always called us ‘dirty, filthy dogs’.” When he was 13 Pieter Dekkers was also sexually abused by the brother who supervised his wing. Mr Van Hoogerhuizen: “We were just dumped there. They could do whatever they pleased with us.”

Government investigation

Mr Dekkers is now living in Thailand. On the phone he is enthusiastic when told about the recently announced investigation by the government. Mr Van Hoogenhuizen is also happy about the inquiry. “It is great news. Especially the fact that it will be conducted by a neutral party and not by the bishops.”

The investigation announced by ministers Rouvoet and Hirsch Ballin will also look into whether the Child Welfare Council, or its predecessor, the Guardianship Board, was aware of the abuse. If so, it will investigate what was done with this knowledge.

Deetman Committee

The government investigation is running parallel with an inquiry headed by Wim Deetman – former Christian Democrat education minister and ex-mayor of The Hague - which was organised by the Roman Catholic bishops in the Netherlands.

Abuse is a common theme in the testimonies of the countless witnesses who have come forward. The atmosphere in institutions and children’s homes where boys and girls were sent by legal order was much more closed than that in ‘normal’ religious boarding schools and seminaries. There was little, if any, government supervision.

Abuse of power

One of the witnesses is Frans Houben (64) from Ootmarsum. His youth was spent in Huize St Joseph in Cadier en Keer, which was run by the Fathers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Béttharam. Mr Houben says that in the twelve years he spent there the child welfare council was totally absent. He says that during the entire period he spent there “someone put in an appearance once”.

The child welfare council placed orphans and boys from problem homes at the Cadier en Keer boarding school. Houben’s father was a member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), the Dutch Fascist party which collaborated with the Germans. His mother could not, or would not, look after him. He recently published a book about his childhood memories in which he described abuse of power and sexual abuse at the boy’s boarding school. “The book is also a condemnation of the child welfare office, which did not intervene.”

Bruises

Another victim of St Joseph is Piet Rietveld (57), who now lives in Groningen. He lived at the boarding school from 1962 until 1966. He describes how he was sadistically beaten and abused in the isolation cells in the basement, where he was locked up for long periods.

Mr Rietveld also never noticed any sort of supervision by the child welfare office. “If they came, then it was never further than the room of the priest who ran the school. We never saw them. If only they had been there, then they would have seen how I was covered with bruises.”

The Child Welfare Council refused to comment. A spokesperson said: “We are awaiting the investigation announced by the ministers.”

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