Protest Tied To Buddhist Monk Accused Of Sex Abuse

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BEDFORD PARK, Ill. (WBBM) – A protest was planned Sunday morning at a Buddhist temple in the near southwest suburbs, where a former monk is accused in a civil suit of fathering the child of a 14-year-old girl.

The group protesting: the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests – which usually targets alleged abusers in the Roman Catholic church.

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SNAP President Barbara Blaine says the group has been passing out fliers to members of the Wat Dhammaram Buddhist temple, at 7059 W. 75th St. in Bedford Park.

“We’re outside the Theravada Buddhist temple… where a monk named Camnong Boa-Ubol had sexually abused a teenage girl he met in the neighborhood. He began abusing her when she was 13,” Blaine said.

Blaine also said that Boa-Ubol fathered a child with the girl when she was 14.

A civil lawsuit has been filed against the temple, accusing officials of trying to cover up abuse and transferring the monk to another temple in California.

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They need to show up at some of the public schools when it happens there. Although that would require much more time since it seems to be happening every few weeks at the public schools.

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Writing Out Child Abuse

The first thing you should know is, I’m not an organizer. I’m a heavy lifter, a workhorse, and an idea kind of person. Funny how things change.

This whole concept started when I read a couple of truly horrifying child abuse stories in the forum of one of the critique groups I belong to. I stared at the stories in open-mouthed shock.

Then the anger started.

Not the “I need to punch a wall and get it out of my system” kind of anger. This wasn’t even the “I need to go out in the desert with a firearm and go target shooting until I feel better” kind of anger. This was something colder and darker. Something deeper. And something that I knew could never be exorcised.

The second thing you should know is: I myself am a survivor of child sexual abuse.

There. I said it.

The abuse I suffered wasn’t at the hands of a family member or loved one. My family didn’t have any idea until I finally acknowledged what had happened, years after the fact. Years of hiding what had befallen me, of shame that somehow I had done something wrong, and of behaving in ways that left my family absolutely confounded, because they simply didn’t have the right information to understand what was inside me, trying to claw its way into the light.

When they found out, they spent a lot of time in recrimination. The signs were so clear in retrospect, and they just never quite put the pieces together. No matter how I assured them it wasn’t their fault, and that they couldn’t have known about what happened because I didn’t tell them, it made no difference. Parents being parents, I suppose. But nevertheless, my abuser set into motion something that had immediate and far-reaching effects for my family and the ripples in my life from what happened are still with me to this day.

To this day, I struggle with depression. My expressions of anger are occasionally more appropriate to a three-year-old (the age at which it happened, if you’re curious) than to a thirty-three-year-old man. There is still a feeling of shame, no matter how irrational it may be.

It also gave me a unique perspective on, appreciation for, and empathy for victims of child abuse. And a very harsh and unforgiving outlook on their abusers.

But for years, I didn’t have any clear idea of what to do to help others who’d been through what I have, beyond “something.”

That changed yesterday. I asked one question in the forum. When I had my answer, I got to work.

And this is the result: A collaboration between publishers, agents, and authors to help kids in situations like my own . . . and even worse. Kids who are in constant physical, mental, and emotional jeopardy and turmoil because of something that wasn’t their fault.

It’s in its infancy, but the overwhelming response in ONE DAY tells me that there are good people out there who want to make a difference. So I, and the other authors that have been contacted to assist with this undertaking, will keep on.

We’re going to tell our stories. The ones that really happened to us.

We’re also going to do what we do best. We’re going to write. We’re going to craft quality stories in our chosen genres, publish them, and donate the proceeds from our stories, novels, and novellas dedicated to this cause to charities whose only goal is to help children touched by these horrors. And, God willing, give these children hope.

Someone’s got to take the first step, though. And today, here, and now, that someone is me.

I’m J.S. Wayne.

Will you join us?

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Suburban Man Charged With Sexual Abuse of 15 Year Olds

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According to Buffalo Grove police, a 15-year-old boy’s father reported to police over the weekend that his son was sexually abused by a male adult. The investigation determined that another 15-year-old, whose gender was not specified, was abused by the same adult. The incidents occurred between Aug. 8 and 19 in Buffalo Grove, police said.

The investigation led to Herbert Mallalieu Burgess, 57, of the 2300 block of South Lexington in Mount Prospect, according to Buffalo Grove police. He was charged with criminal sexual assault and two counts of criminal sexual abuse, according to police.

Burgess is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Waukegan on Aug. 31.

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Second Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit over Sexual Abuse in New York State Prisons

Since 2003, the Legal Aid Society has been pursuing a class-action suit on behalf of “present and future” female inmates in the New York state prison system, alleging a pattern of “sexual abuse—including forcible rape—of women prisoners by state correctional officers,” facilitated by inadequate staff screening, training, oversight, and grievance procedures. Claiming violations of the Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, the plaintiffs are asking a federal district court to issue an injunction requiring the New York DOC to implement more effective policies and procedures for preventing sexual abuse.

At the trial court level, the case had been dismissed by district judge Kevin Duffy, in part because some of the plaintiffs are no longer in prison, so their requests for injunctive relief are moot. Now the Second Circuit has reversed that ruling, reinstating the lawsuit as to those plaintiffs and sending it back to the district court for further proceedings to determine if the case can proceed as a class action. (Full opinion PDF here – note, the case has had a very complicated procedural history and this is mainly a procedural ruling, so the opinion may be hard to follow; I’ll translate some of the legalese after the jump, if you’re curious).

The AP reports on the stance of the New York Department of Corrections:

In April, Corrections Commissioner Brian Fischer testified the department has adopted a series of directives and orientation materials for prisoners and notices to staff and inmates emphasizing zero tolerance sexual abuse. He noted the department’s inspector general has one of the few prison sex crimes units in the nation investigating allegations of misconduct by staff, as well as abuse by inmates on one another.

“The reality, however, is that while we do not willingly tolerate sexual abuse of our offenders, we may not be able to ever fully eradicate the occurrence,” he said. “Our approach is to take proactive preventive measures, immediately respond to all allegations and seek criminal penalties where appropriate believing that such efforts have a deterrent effect within the system.”

The Court’s Reasoning

The Second Circuit panel reasoned that the suit falls into the “capable of repetition, yet evading review” exception to the mootness doctrine. To translate from the legalese:

Injunctions are about preventing future harms, so ordinarily, plaintiffs aren’t allowed to take up court time asking a judge to enjoin violations that can’t actually happen. If you’re suing to prevent something from happening to you in prison, but you’re not in prison anymore, your claim is moot. That’s the mootness doctrine.

But there’s an exception for class-action suits challenging practices that are likely to happen again to someone in the future, but where the precise group of currently-affected plaintiffs is likely to change faster than litigation can move — such as jails, prisons, public housing projects, and other institutions where people are constantly moving in and out. This exception allows plaintiffs with moot claims to stand in for future plaintiffs for class certification purposes, because otherwise it’s hard to see how anyone could ever effectively challenge the practices in question — you’d just get an endless cycle of suits being filed then thrown out as moot.

So applying that exception to this case, the Second Circuit explained that “the odds of an inmate” being sexually assaulted and then “being able to complete the grievance procedure and litigate a class action” all “while still incarcerated are rather small.” Thus, it makes sense to allow the formerly incarcerated inmates who’ve already filed suit to continue standing in for the class of current and future inmates who, if the plaintiffs’ allegations are true, remain at risk of sexual abuse and would benefit from injunctive relief.

(Note that there is a separate group of plaintiffs whose claims the district court dismissed, ruling that they hadn’t exhausted the prison system’s internal grievance procedures before filing suit, as required under the Prison Litigation Reform Act. The Second Circuit upheld that portion of the ruling. But that leaves three plaintiffs who did exhaust their remedies, so the suit can continue as to them.)

The docket info is Amador v. Superintendents of Dep’t of Corr. Servs., 08-2079-pr, 2d Circuit, Aug. 19, 2011.

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On a Serious Note - Domestic Abuse

~I’m not a very serious person really, but domestic abuse is something I feel very passionately about and think should be taken seriously.

Ted Bundy was in the news earlier and it got me started thinking about how little you really know about the people around you.  Here this “nice guy” turned out to be a serial killer.  Of all the serial killers, Bundy scares me the most.  It’s not just him, but people like him.  Someone who seems so, well, normal.  People hide a lot of things from eachother

For example, there are a lot of people suffering from domestic abuse, whether it’s mental, emotional, sexual or physical abuse.  Often, the abuser is able to convince you that if you do try to get help, nobody will believe you.  The truth is that some people have a hard time believing that their charismatic friend would hit his wife or that their sister would beat her husband.

Some abusers isolate their victims from everyone they know.  Once they have you isolated, it becomes easier to manipulate you.  Sure, if he tells you that you’re a horrible, terrible person, you’ll just think he’s being mean at first.  After you hear over and over again, you start to believe it yourself.

People always wonder why it takes so long to leave an abuser.  There are many reasons; sometimes you feel like you have nowhere to go, or maybe you feel like you’re over-reacting and it’s not their fault, maybe you feel like it’s all your fault.  Sometimes, you feel like if you could just be good enough then everything would be okay.  Sometimes, you’re afraid for your life or your kids’ lives.

I’m not really sure if a lot of people realize how many men are abused as well.  Generally, when you think of domestic abuse you think of a man beating his wife or girlfriend.  First of all, abuse is not just physical.  Also, men are abused as well but are less likely to speak up about it.  I imagine it’s also harder to recognize this sort of abuse as well.

There’s a video on YouTube: Reaction to Women Abusing Men in Public.  It takes place in a park and shows the different reactions of people when it’s a man being abusive compared to a woman being abusive.  They’re both wrong and every single person who saw any of these encounters should’ve done something, in my opinion. Honestly, the public perception seems to be that women are less of a threat.  It’s less about the man, it’s more about seeing women as weaker in general.  Even if that were true, once again, abuse is not just physical.

If you, or someone you know, is in trouble, seek help.  If you’re trying to help someone else, please keep their safety in mind.  Some abusers are very controlling and will check your computer to see which websites you’ve visited, or see what phone calls you’ve made, etc.  The Hotline is one of many good websites for victims as well, or if you can’t visit the site, their number is: 1.800.799.SAFE(7233). I checked, they help victims of either gender. The Hotline website also has some advice for helping an abused friend on their page: How Can I Help A Friend Or Family Member Who Is Being Abused?

If you have to, grab everything you can and go to the police station, they’ll help you too.  There is help.  If you need other resources, let me know and I’ll try to find them for you.  We should all be taking care of each other.

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