This item first appeared on the F.A.C.T. website on the November 2004
The following article appears on the Inquisition 21st Century Website.
The victim activists in Ireland have hit back at a courageous woman who has been trying to defend nuns and brothers.
Ireland’s malicious victim activists.
The victim activists in Ireland have hit back in a potentially deadly manner at a courageous woman who has been trying to defend the nuns and brothers who ran residential homes for decades. Florence Horsman Hogan set up LOVE to defend falsely accused carers, and to the rage of the so-called ‘survivor groups’ began to claim that a huge number of the complainants were compensation seekers who were inventing the abuse and ruining the names of both living and dead carers.
Now the ‘victims’ have hit back with two allegations at Florence and her family, using the weapon they have at their disposal – claims of abuse and neglect. The first complaint was withdrawn, but the second, anonymous, was that Florence herself was neglecting her two children, aged 6 and 10. Disgracefully, social services, have responded, with the mantra that all reports of abuse must be investigated.
Sweden has already demonstrated how such draconian responses silence outspoken mothers of young children. In that country, there was no argument in similar cases: if the mother criticized the system, social services decided that her behaviour was ‘inappropriate for a mother’ and took her children away.
Florence Horsman Hogan has described herself as ‘a sitting duck’ for her enemies. She added: “The last few weeks have been hell on earth for me and my family. I have cried non-stop and I haven’t slept. Every allegation of child abuse must be investigated, but false allegations ruin families and reputations, and, once made, the presumption of innocence is thrown out the window.
“Once word of a complaint gets out, you are labelled and can’t escape the stigma. I am a paediatric nurse and a well known children’s rights activist. For me to be accused of child abuse is like calling Mother Teresa a pervert or the Pope a Protestant.”
Celebrity victim John Kelly who heads up one of the leading survivor organizations and is an arch enemy of Hogan, was quick to get on the bandwagon, using carefully selected weasel words: “I don’t think anyone would go so far as to deliberately make a false allegation against her.” He knows the allegations were made. He knows that social services took notice. So he must be saying either that it was an accidentally made false allegation or a true one. The latter is probably slanderous.
But his next comment is outrageous, coming from the leading spokesman for the sex abuse compensation industry. He said, “We wouldn’t like to see anyone falsely accused of abuse.”