Sylvia's Story - continues

I can almost promise votes for anyone who publicly acknowledges the Forgotten Australians and the issue of child abuse. Versions of our story are repeated for 500,000 Australians.  Why don't we hear from them all, and their families?  Because unlike our indigenous sisters and brothers, we rarely enjoy extended family networks.  In fact, because of the lack of understanding shown to our family, neither of my siblings speaks to me any more, and they also cheated me out of some of my inheritance.  The reason? I did not use the advantages my upbringing gave me.  Even my own sisters do not understand.  How can anyone else?  Every day I come into contact with welfare and health 'professionals' who know nothing at all about our issues. 

The first political party to seriously address the awful problem of child abuse in this state will be swept into power.  That means to address the fact that three Supreme Court judges and a senior political figure belong to the Boy Lovers And Zucchini Eaters club [A Report by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority, November 1995] and were photographed by the Federal Police leaving BLAZE's monthly meeting at Dirty Dicks nightclub.  In an incident ‘reported’ to have occurred in about August, 1988, two Federal police officers from Sydney came to Brisbane in order to investigate the making of a “snuff video” which allegedly portrayed a section of the Brisbane River in the background, as it was being filmed. 

This detail has been reported in the CJC’s August, 1988, Kimmins Report.

As part of this investigation, it has been reported that the two AFP officers carried out video surveillance of a Fortitude Valley nightclub.  It could have been in fact “Dirty Dicks” Theatre Restaurant, which is not situated at Fortitude Valley, but at Petrie Terrace, about 3-4 km away. 

It was reported that the occasion filmed at Dirty Dicks was a monthly meeting of BLAZE (Boy Lovers and Zucchini Eaters). Some high profile individuals were reportedly caught exiting the event, on the AFP surveillance video.

My abuser, Dr Robert Boughen OBE (and various other accolades) is closely involved with the Royal School of Church Music. A memo I acquired from the Callaghan/Briggs Enquiry detailing a phone call from Michael Kelly, son of the late Virginia Whitfield and an Anglican priest, dated in 2002, references a report of abuse by Robert Boughen on Virginia Whitfield when she was age 12 in the 50s.  Despite this Boughen went on to get a job at Uni and began to groom me for abuse when in the first weeks of my first year in 1969.

I have heard from the friend I told about my abuse when it was happening that her father-in-law, knowing my story, told them on his deathbed that he was a choirboy along with Robert Boughen in the 30s or 40s when, at a Royal School of Church Music camp on Stradbroke Island, he witnessed the then Organist and Choirmaster molesting the boy, Robert Boughen.  As a result of knowing this, and also hearing from another organ student in 1972 (we were 21) that he was "beginning to lust after choirboys", I believe there is an entrenched system of corruption involving both major parties to cover up paedophilia in Qld.

In 2005 I was told by a Registered Psychologist in Queensland that over in the UK, one of the Queen's Organists and Choirmasters had been caught and charged with paedophilia.  This year (2010), David Sanger, who was president of the Royal College of Organists, was found dead after being released on bail, charged with eight counts of gross indecency against boys aged under 16.[ "World renowned organist on sex charges found dead in chapel"].  

In one of the newsletters for a Queensland pipe organ society, a high profile Victorian Advertising Executive sharing the same, uncommon, name with a paedophile described in Dr Reina Michaelsons’s allegations, is acknowledged as a substantial donor of funds.  Victorian child psychologist Dr Reina Michaelson documented the details of alleged high-profile paedophiles. In addition one of the committee members of this organ society has the same name as an individual, identified in the Qld. CJC’s Kimmins Report, as a suspected paedophile.  The surname is not a common one.  It is also noted that this individual attempted to infiltrate the Qld. Children’s Commissioner’s Office.  However, his job application was picked up by the Deputy Commissioner and the plan was thwarted.

It is also noted that Dr. Robert Boughen is patron of this organ society, which has close links to both the Anglican and Catholic Churches in Brisbane.

It would be so good and cleansing for my soul to see justice done, for me, Virginia Whitfield, and countless others whom Boughen abused, and who have been too scared because of his position in society.

Ref: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/transcripts/s926706.htm

       http://sgp1.paddington.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/transcript_994.asp