Rashid Faisal, Barron Ian
Federal Government, Karachi, Pakistan.
College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
J Child Sex Abus. 2019 Nov-Dec;28(8):885-906. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2019.1577934. Epub 2019 Mar 11.
In the wake of reported scandals of child sexual abuse by Roman catholic priests in mainstream media in the 1980s/1990s and conviction of Catholic priests on similar charges in England and Wales, Lord Nolan was invited by the Archbishop of Westminster in 2000 to undertake a review of child safeguarding policies of the Catholic Church of England and Wales since 1994, known as the Nolan Report. The Nolan Report led to the establishment of the first Catholic Office for protection of children (COPCA) which remained operative from 2001-2007 before being later modified in light of the Cumberlege Review (2007) as the National Child Safeguarding Commission (NCSC) and the Catholic Safeguarding Advisory service (CSAS) since 2008 which continue to operate till today. This article conducts a hermeneutical analysis of the Nolan Report, the Cumberlege Report, the annual reports of COPCA and the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission from 2007 till 2017. Wider academic literature on the subject is included in order to critically examine the performance of these child safeguarding structures developed to prevent and control clerical sexual abuse and to evaluate the utility of the child protection measures in place within the Catholic Church of England and Wales, since 2001.
20世纪80年代/90年代主流媒体报道了罗马天主教神职人员性侵儿童的丑闻，且在英格兰和威尔士有天主教神职人员因类似指控被定罪后，威斯敏斯特大主教于2000年邀请诺兰勋爵对自1994年以来英格兰和威尔士天主教会的儿童保护政策进行审查，即《诺兰报告》。《诺兰报告》促成了首个天主教儿童保护办公室（COPCA）的设立，该办公室在2001年至2007年期间运作，后来根据坎伯利奇审查（2007年）进行了调整，自2008年起成为国家儿童保护委员会（NCSC）和天主教保护咨询服务处（CSAS），至今仍在运作。本文对《诺兰报告》、《坎伯利奇报告》、COPCA的年度报告以及2007年至2017年国家天主教保护委员会的报告进行了解释学分析。还纳入了关于该主题的更广泛学术文献，以便批判性地审视为预防和控制神职人员性虐待而建立的这些儿童保护机构的表现，并评估自2001年以来英格兰和威尔士天主教会所采用的儿童保护措施的效用。
