The appropriate channel is for the accusations to come through the court and for the lawyers to receive a copy of the indictment.

Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused and their supporters. Multi-perpetrator sexual offences are typically more sadistic than solo offences and organised sexual abuse is no exception. Adults and children with histories of organised abuse have described lives marked by...

I couldn’t quite understand how an ordinary man’s good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.

Grace silences the voice of accusation and wipes all the evidence of guilt

Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from social workers and therapists, produce false allegations of ‘paedophile rings’, ‘cult abuse’ and ‘ritual abuse’. Child protection investigations or legal cases involving allegations of organised child sexual abuse are regularly invoked...

I am ready to face all my accusers, and there will be an investigation committee that will clarify everything. These accusations are politically motivated.

I can imagine that committee members would come up with many groundless accusations about the incident.

We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.

(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children)So what does this movement consist of? Who are the movers and shakers? Well molesters are in it, of course. There are web pages telling them how to defend themselves against accusations, to retain confidence about their ‘loving and natural’...

He has fully defeated Carla Del Ponte’s accusations that Serbia and Serbian nationals are genocidal and that they have ethnically cleansed the people of the former Yugoslavia.

The unwarranted accusations by the U.S. against China under the pretext of so-called human rights questions are completely without reason and driven by ulterior motives.

In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases which appeared in the public domain, memory itself was always a false trail – these women never forgot. We are not challenging people’s right to tell their own story and then to change...

Accusations of genocide are a very sensitive issue and we are attempting to deal with it as such. The accusations are made against the Ottoman regime and are no reflection on the modern Turkish state or Turkish people. I have met to discuss the issue with a range of representatives from the Turkish community and...

The provincial government has set up a special team to investigate the accusations of pollution and shut down those chemical plants thought responsible.

Be open in everything with your partner, because where there is secrecy, it can mistakenly come off as being sneaky; where you just may be innocently quiet.

We are now investigating the matter more closely to determine what has happened, … If it is confirmed that the accusations are valid and improper actions have occurred, we will naturally take actions.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them

The innocent people of Afghanistan have suffered for 25 years. Are these Muslim people once more to be crushed because some people are alleged to have taken part in the attacks in the United States, although these accusations have not been proved?

Privilege” is something else.”Privilege” is a judgment.”Privilege” is an opinion.”Privilege” is an accusation.

I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt.” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

Unlock joy in any situation!True understanding and mutual respect do not bridge blames, destructive, negative criticisms, false excuses and gossips. To express disappointments and ill-feelings are normal however to gossip around certain people and events in order to put another person down and destroy one’s credibility is a form of bullying whether one expresses it...

The developments on the Chad-Sudan border are not very encouraging. The accusations and counter accusations of both Sudan and Chad of aggression in each other’s territory and support for rebels in each other’s territory are cause for serious concern and should be handled with the frankness it deserves in finding out the real aggressor.

Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Such accusations are baseless and we do not agree with them at all.

Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of survivors. One of the standard objections to qualitative research is that participants may lie or fantasise in interview, it has been suggested that adults who report severe child sexual abuse are...

We reject the blame game and accusations so common in efficient groups. With each person accepting full responsibility for their actions, no on can have any more of the blame than anyone else. Let’s all be accountable to ourselves, so we can grow and learn from our mistakes and be buoyed by our successes.

This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain the traumatic kernel at the heart of allegations of organised abuse. In his influential ‘just world’ theory, Lerner (1980) argued that emotional wellbeing is predicated on the assumption that the world is an...