[Gocamino] [saintjames] response to Rosina and anyone else who wants to know

[Bridget Highfill]

As a public school teacher in California, who worked in the private preschool industry prior to getting my credential, I have been fingerprinted and checked for prior criminal charges many times.  I have to renew my state credential every 5 years and testify that I am free from felonious or misdemenor charges.  If I am found to lie, I will have my credential revoked.  
I am not saying that the system is free from error.  However, there are safeguards built into the credentialing process that seem to be more stingent than that of priests.  I am glad that the Catholic Church,  my church, is finally taking a proactive role in protecting children.  If priests had had to verify, every 5 years, that they had not had criminal charges brought against them, our Church would not be in this horrifying situation.
Hoping for a better world,
Bridget Highfill
e, 5/4/10, Mónica Giner <krsso at mac.com> wrote:


From: Mónica Giner <krsso at mac.com>
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] [saintjames] response to Rosina and anyone else who wants to know
To: "Rosina" <blaroli at aol.com>
Cc: GoCamino at oakapple.net, saintjames at yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 5:38 AM


Not to belabor but the same concept has an English phrase equivalent:    Every cloud has silver lining.

Mónica

On May 2, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Rosina wrote:

> 
> Wow Lydia, 
> I had no idea..... Thanks for this terrific information!
> Rosina
> 
> 
>          There is no evil from which goodness doesn't come - a rough translation 
> And, by the way, I have learned that in California and Delaware the
> "look-back" law that was passed to lift the statute of limitations on
> accusations of sexual abuse only applied to private entities, not to public
> ones such as schools. So if a child was sexually abused by a public school
> teacher, he/she could not sue under this statute; but a child accusing a
> person in a private institution like a church or school could. The Catholic
> Church took the brunt of these accusations because of its financial
> structure. Individual Catholic churches do not own their property or bank
> accounts; the diocese does. This is not true for other denominations. So the
> lawyers figured out that the only entity worth suing was the Catholic
> Church. That is not to say that incidents didn't happen in private schools
> or other churches/synagogues/ mosques. But these latter groups don't have
> enough money to make it worth the lawyers' time.
> 
> However, good has come from this evil. The Catholic Church in America was
> given a Charter by the American Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2002, rev.
> in 2005, which orders all parishes to form Safe Environment committees to
> monitor the safety of children/youth/vulnerable adults. All staff and
> volunteers must sign a code of conduct. All staff and any volunteers who
> work with or around children must take a 3 hour training class to learn to
> recognize the grooming behaviors of predators and other ways to protect our
> children, and all staff and any volunteers who work directly with children
> must be fingerprinted. Also, all the children in 1st through 12th grades
> must be given a class annually on self-protection. In addition to that, we
> are giving programs to parents on internet safety, texting and "sexting" and
> cyber-bullying. The Los Angeles Archdiocese is doing a terrific job in
> following these mandates. 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lydia Banales <lydia at banales.net>
> To: saintjames at yahoogroups.com
> Cc: Rosina <Blaroli at aol.com>
> Sent: Sun, May 2, 2010 4:01 pm
> Subject: [saintjames] response to Rosina and anyone else who wants to know
> 
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> 
> 
> There is no evil from which goodness doesn't come - a rough translation.
> 
> And, by the way, I have learned that in California and Delaware the
> "look-back" law that was passed to lift the statute of limitations on
> accusations of sexual abuse only applied to private entities, not to public
> ones such as schools. So if a child was sexually abused by a public school
> teacher, he/she could not sue under this statute; but a child accusing a
> person in a private institution like a church or school could. The Catholic
> Church took the brunt of these accusations because of its financial
> structure. Individual Catholic churches do not own their property or bank
> accounts; the diocese does. This is not true for other denominations. So the
> lawyers figured out that the only entity worth suing was the Catholic
> Church. That is not to say that incidents didn't happen in private schools
> or other churches/synagogues/ mosques. But these latter groups don't have
> enough money to make it worth the lawyers' time.
> 
> However, good has come from this evil. The Catholic Church in America was
> given a Charter by the American Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2002, rev.
> in 2005, which orders all parishes to form Safe Environment committees to
> monitor the safety of children/youth/vulnerable adults. All staff and
> volunteers must sign a code of conduct. All staff and any volunteers who
> work with or around children must take a 3 hour training class to learn to
> recognize the grooming behaviors of predators and other ways to protect our
> children, and all staff and any volunteers who work directly with children
> must be fingerprinted. Also, all the children in 1st through 12th grades
> must be given a class annually on self-protection. In addition to that, we
> are giving programs to parents on internet safety, texting and "sexting" and
> cyber-bullying. The Los Angeles Archdiocese is doing a terrific job in
> following these mandates. 
> 
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