Detestable. I have a personal policy I may have bored you with before. If someone were to accuse me of being a paedophile (even in jest) I would draw the attention of everyone, whatever situation I was in AT THAT MOMENT to the accusation and then I would demand that my accuser prove the accusation in front of everyone to their satisfaction RIGHT AT THAT MOMENT or I would kill them. I dont mean give them a beating I mean kill them in front of everyone, dead. Permanently. Because I would MUCH rather be known as the man who murdered a fool for being accused of kiddy fiddling than spend the rest of my life with the hateful shadow of no smoke without fire and they MUST have known something to make that accusation whispers which no man can ever satisfyingly disprove. In the UK we have an arse backwards system where to work with children the worker has to get a certificate which proves that there is no history of abuse. This is a flawed system which often throws up false positive results and can be crippling to a career. I call it the I havent been caught yet certificate because that really is all it is. I have done many bad things in my life some of which I regret bitterly but I am not, of my own volition, an abuser. However when I was 19 I was accused of having an unnatural relationship with a severely disabled young quadroplegic woman by a fellow nurse (senior to me and hugely experienced). I was not having such a relationship (just to be very clear) but the accusation was part of a campaign of bullying using the hospitals systems which I lived through for two years. I was repeatedly interviewed by managers of varying degrees of seniority and disinterest until finally a senior doctor got fed up with hearing about it and took my side as much to shut things up as to help me I suspect (due to staff shortages I was at no point ever stopped from providing total physical, hygeine, dietary and mobility care from this young woman or the four other young women in my group. This may give some indication of the importance of patient abuse...) Under the current system such an accusation would have been recorded and it would have blighted any chance I had at developing a career in nursing, something I did for many years. I am now forced into a career in the arts and I WILL NOT take on ANY job which insists upon a CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) check because to me it is an inversion of the concept of being innocent until proven guilty and because in every case cited to justify its existence I see not an evil man/woman creeping into a position of responsibility but a rank failure of systems of management to provide oversight, assessment and client support.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:42:30 +0000
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