Abuses WatchInstitutional abuse happens because multiple levels of leadership and the very structure of the organization itself becomes a haven for predators—they are given access to their intended prey, and they are given positions of trust and leadership. https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/they-arent-who-you-think-they-are #kanakuk
Until the organizations, corporations, and institutions are held accountable for their hand in the sexual exploitation and trauma of countless men, women, and children, full justice will not be served.” @Kanakuk
There is no statute of limitations on truth. While there are limitations on legal processes, there are not statutes of limitation for individual and institutional accountability. @Kanakuk
A false narrative has circulated about #Kanakuk for a decade, and parents have sent children to the camp without knowledge of its history or access to material facts. @Kanakuk
Nobody resigned as a result of the failure to stop a decade of abuse. There was no disciplinary action against any of Newman’s supervisors, and Joe White is still the head of the camp today. @Kanakuk
Today and every day, nondisclosure agreements silence Newman’s victims, just as they silence victims of other scandals and other institutions across the length and breadth of the United States. #kanakuk
No institution—especially no Christian institution—should bind its victims to codes of silence. #kanakuk
Gretchen Carlson (who is working to end workplace NDAs in sex abuse cases) told us, “Non-disclosure agreements force survivors into perpetual silence, unable to share their own pain with those closest to them and unable to warn others of danger. #kanakuk
They must be eradicated so that we, as a society, can have an honest discussion about the toxicity they were designed to hide.” #kanakuk