Statement:
The fractured story of a survivor of abuse and cover up in the Diocese of Winchester, by a survivor who is too traumatized and ashamed to share her story, but has been forced to fight to be heard.
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
'Statement' sent to the Diocese on 28/07/2013 and posted on the previous church blog
The statement below was written for the Diocese last summer, and here I am in March, alive, in one piece, and even housed, after a fashion, but still suffering. Amazing how things have changed, my life feels completely different and my circumstances are very different but I still believe that either the stress of this horrible matter or further efforts by the Diocese, will drive me to an early grave.
Statement:
For two years I escaped, or almost escaped the Diocese of Winchester's violation of my life
Suddenly and shockingly I was traced by some police officer directly
before Easter, traced under my new name and left violated and sickened,
on behalf of the Diocese of Winchester
Because the Diocese had had a long habit of hurting me and having me
attacked by the police, I made a complaint to the police authority for
this violation by the diocese through the police, my complaint has yet
to be dealt with properly.
I at the same time made queries to the Diocese, who blankly ignored me for weeks.
It
was a week after this police attack by Jonathan Swift from Hampshire
police that I became aware of the Dean of Jersey's suspension and the
Bishop and Archbishop's fake apologies in the paper. This was because I
was being bombarded with messages from people who had heard. Including
an all-time useless and fake charity called MACSAS who's prying and
illegal intervention in my life was much like Jane Fisher's and caused
great pain in the past while I was suffering at the hands of the Diocese
of Winchester.
and then I
heard about the hate campaign against me by supporters of the Dean, this
was lead by two people who had never met me, Philip Bailhache and Gavin
Ashenden. Philip Bailhache held both church and political positions and
used his political position to write a slanderous letter against me to
the media, the Bishop and the Archbishop, which the Archbishop swiftly
acknowledged and abided by, blocking my emails and having me treated as
mad when I phoned his office. Philip Bailhache claimed he 'spoke for all
Jersey people' but his media prevented the cries of protest at that
from being heard. Gavin Ashenden had never met me but decided from what
he knew from the Warrens and Lihous, which was their side of things and
not mine, that publicly slandering me and condemning me for the Dean was
acceptable and Christian. He is the one who claims that mentally ill
people are demon-posessed and that it is acceptable to publicly force
the demons out of them in humiliating rituals, and he is the one who
loudly went on about me being mentally ill. I find it funny that the
Lihous tried to force on me that forgiveness was more important than
righting what was wrong when George Lihou chased and shouted at me,
because it appears that I remain publicly and permenantly unforgiven
over that for the sake of covering for wrongdoers.
I had to tell
my church and friends what was wrong because I was in a state of
collapse on receipt of the Police email on behalf of the Diocese, which I
only read the first part of, which went on about the Bishop of
Winchester and historic abuse and how the Bishop wanted to put me in
'local church groups' - which made me furious as I was now a Catholic,
was driven out of every church in Winchester and had no intention at all
of being ANYWHERE under the Diocese of Winchester's control, EVER
AGAIN.
regarding previous point, how
can the diocese be so blind as to think that any contact with them, any
intervention and any involvement from them would ever be anything but
traumatic after the way they have had me repeatedly brutalized and
locked up???? It is like your rapist trying to be your friend, it is
that ridiculous and humiliating and cringeworthy!
Eventually
some chaplain replied with some vague and irrelevant stuff, which
included denying that I was now suffering because of hatred coming from
Jersey about me, disbelieving me!
So the
Diocese had me traced just to fob me off and ignore me? well, no, they
had me traced because once their awful badly written and unqualified
Korris report was published, people in Jersey put them under pressure to
trace me. The Diocese of Winchester were the same cold uncaring Diocese
that they were under Scott-Joynt, new Bishop, old ways. They didn't
want to know me, they didn't intend to help me, they had done this
because they had no choice! and they made it very clear indeed that they
didn't give a damn.
The Bishop
himself never emailed me in the first month, this vague chaplain waffled
on the Bishop's behalf, and he said something about being 'very very
sorry in the delay' or something, and that is the only time apart from
the self-glorifying 'apologies' in the paper, that the Bishop has done
anything resembling an apology, and that is not a proper personal
apology, it is words, he never met with me as implied and it caused me
great pain when Bob Hill was told untruthfully that Bishop Dakin had met
with me and Bob kept on and on asking me if it was true and when I had
met with Dakin when I had not. I am furious at being used as a vessel
for Bishop Dakin's lies!
Anyway, as
this farcical situation continued and the news kept coming from Jersey
and Wolvsley continued not to give a damn, I got to know the Jersey
bloggers. Who have been the only comfort I have known apart from my
friends, and even my friendships have been put under strain by this
because since being traced and especially since being threatened by
Bishop Tim, I have felt frightened and as if my life is paused and
waiting for another beating and detention. And that is the fear that
leads me to hope my life will end soon, chest pains over the last few
days make me hopeful it will end before the Steele Farce is published
because I have no wish to live through that.
Anyway, Bob
Hill, a Jersey blogger, BEM, former MET police officer and Jersey
politician, started asking me for my side of things, and talking about
it has traumatized me, but I told him as best I could, and broke down
when he questioned me again and again over things like the 'harrassment
order' that I never got, which is to do with Jane Fisher attacking me
with the police after trying to have me sectioned and leaving me on the
run with my life in ruins and I never got the 'harrassment order'. But I
remain traumatized for life by that, especially as that police attack
by Fisher was followed by her claiming to 'offer counselling' to me
through the police she attacked me with, even though no counselling
would have worked at that point and the fact that she had not dealt with
my complaint and had attacked me for wrongdoers and let them off the
hook meant that nothing was going to help while my life was wrecked and I
was broken and the wrongdoers were unpunished. So having to go over
that with Bob again and again nearly killed me.
So, I
continued to contact Wolvsley, puzzled as to why they seemed to have
attacked my life with the police for absolutely nothing, and left me
suffering. The Bishop replied through his chaplain's email address,
which he always does, and this remains a very very silly and childish
game of his, he replied by threatening me and I told him what I thought
of him tracing me with the police only to threaten me with court orders,
thus condoning the bad behaviour of Scott-Joynt, Fisher and Key, the
only people who could have got me court orders, please note that I have
no understanding of the police actions against me, only that I am
branded mad and bad for life. I know of no court order that this Bishop
who had shattered my life by having me traced could possibly have any
right to either condone or threaten me with, but he did, and I saw my
death clearly that day, because the only way, if this man condones the
beatings and imprisonments, the only way I will escape him and his nasty
little safeguarding officer who's title is a joke, and their police
attacks is through death. So he took away the slight rebuild of my life
that had come from two years escaped from Jane Fisher, he shattered it
through the police attack and the threats and condoning of the way I had
been treated and he shattered my life and heart and left me to
deteriorate, as I am doing. Chest pains, chest pains, hope for death.
So, the hate
campaign continued merrily, publicly and condoned by the Bishop and his
threats, basically if he traced me to damn me like that after ignoring
me, he was obviously happy to let me wiped out by the Jersey hate
campaign, and yes, he did nothing.
Then he
reinstated the Dean and said he had done nothing wrong, and he
celebrated with the Dean in the press. On the Day that he reinstated the
Dean, he sent me a message, not to warn me he was reinstating the Dean,
and not to pass on the Dean's very very empty and vague 'apology' which
didn't appear to have any content or be directed at anyone or for
anything, but the Bishop contacted me that day regarding my emails to
the Diocese for which he had threatened me, he contacted me regarding my
emails which begged him to confirm that I would be safe from repeat
violations, and the origin of my begging to be safe from violations
after the police tracing of me was that Jane Fisher, both in Jersey and
in Winchester on my return from Jersey in 2010, had slandered me to all
churches in Winchester and then Romsey when I went there, had violated
my privacy with police, social services, housing and other services,
going behind my back and getting her and the Diocese side of things
accross and ruining my name and leaving me raging, for which she had me
attacked with the police. I was terrified and still am, that this
harrassment for which I have no defence, will re-start, along with the
police attacks. The Bishop did not respond to my begging for them not to
intervene in my life until the day he reinstated the Dean. He replied
in an email subject box saying 'no unsolicited intervention -confirmed'
after I had been living in fear and begging to be assured I was safe for
some time, and having been threatened.
So the Bishop
forcibly violated my life and let me be shattered by his threats, the
hate campaign and the clearing of the Dean of any misconduct, could
things get any worse? yes.
I was
spiralling downhill fast, the confidence and peace I had found in the
life I was building and the gentle, steady therapy and the WRAP course
that taught me to look after myself even when I was depressed or having
flashbacks, was shattered and all the horror of not only everything that
had happened, but also what people were saying had happened, ie the
hate campaign, the awful Korris report that damages me and my character
beyond repair because not only was it published as fact when it is not,
but it also omitted my side and absolved jane Fisher of her behaviour to
me. This ripped me apart in a way that you cannot possibly understand, I
was already simply too psychologically damaged, can you begin to
imagine, if you have not been traumatised too much, what
something like this would do to someone?! And having to go through
everything again with Bob and contact the advocate who let me be
destroyed? It nearly drove me to suicide months ago. But the Bishop and
Diocese coldly could not give a damn.
So, after a a
very very close brush with suicide in April or May, in which I used
everything I had been taught at WRAP and every atom of my strength and
my loyalty to my friends in order to save my own life, the next shock
was on it's way.
oh before I
state the next shock, we were all made aware of the Bishop's laughable
use of a PR company called Luther-Pendragon to handle this matter. The
problem is, it was not just laughable but shocking, because it showed
that the Bishop has no backbone but is a figurehead who cannot fight his
own battles. Imagine a Bishop needing a worldly, Godless company who
charge thousands of a Diocese who a few years ago had to lay off staff
because of financial troubles, and this Bishop leaving a hungry and
destitute abuse survivor on the streets and threatening her!
Horrifying!
So the next
thing I knew was that Dame Heather Steele, a close colleague of Philip
Bailhache, Richard Falle and other political and judicial figures who
had been involved negatively either in my destroyal or the hate
campaign, had 'approached Winchester' and 'offered to investigate', this
screamed of corruption and whitewash and yet the Bishop ignored my
concerns and other concerns and allowed this to proceed, but there has
been a wait of months, and I hoped my objection to this conflicted
investigation had been noted, but the Bishop has allowed it to go ahead.
He has also licenced a member of jersey police to be involved, even
though that is not ethical and my police records, which are inaccurate
are presumably allowed to be accessed by Steele through this officer
despite my objections, and Steele of course will not ask for my side of
these inaccuracies as her aim will be to help Bailhache absolve the
wrongdoers and villify me, easy done with the inaccurate records.
So basically I am left waiting to be slaughtered and this has had a massive toll on my health.
The other side of the investigation, led by John Gladwin, would have
also bypassed me if Bob Hill had not made contact with John Gladwin and
made contact with John Gladwin again when John Gladwin was evasive and
tried to bypass the questions about meeting with me.
A meeting did
go ahead, although in 3 and a half hours I was barely able to explain
to John Gladwin and Christine Daly my side of anything, it would take
days for me to adequately verbalise what happened to me, and that three
and a half hours appears to be all the interveiew time I will ever get
with the investigation as it was done to make things appear fair after
Bob pushed for an interview with John Gladwin, so with my side not
adequately heard, the investigation proceeded.
John and
Christine went to Jersey and were joined by a lawyer who Bob Hill
described having concerns about, and who tried to tell him I was not
branded by my destroyal and removal from Jersey. Bob commented to me
that he did not trust this lawyer and also that John and Christine had
'let us down' and that I should not let them have my evidence as they
would not necessarily be honest and might use the evidence to their own
purposes and leave me let down. Well I am let down full stop, because
nothing that happens now is going to help me.
I sent the Bishop 20 Questions
like Bruce Willings did in the hate campaign against me, never expected
an answer as the Bishop had made his stance on me very clear, he didn't
give a damn, that was apparent in the threat he made and his
reinstatement of the Dean with no warning to me and no attempt to pass
the Dean's apology to me.
But funnily
enough and probably for show, the Bishop started waffling in subject
boxes, saying he would only email me on Fridays, which impressed me, if
you can set clear boundaries like that then you have a chance of helping
me, because you say a lot just by doing that.
But because
of how damaged I now was by the Bishop, and because of my deteriorating
health, I read the Bishop's subject boxes which were about how he wanted
to email me and I said 'not yet' in many more words than that. But the
Bishop knew he could email Bob Hill who was acting as my mediator, but
Bob Hill told me that the Bishop ignored him.
The weekly
requests by the Bishop to email me left me traumatized because I could
anticipate his untruths about everything because of everything that had
happened so far. and this wore me down and made me angry as I fell apart
more and more from the strain of this nightmare that the Diocese of
Winchester had launched on me from the day they attacked my new life
through DC Jonathan Swift.
The Dame
Steele enquiry went ahead despite protests. Dame Steele, in the very
same style as everything else in this nightmare, didn't even bother to
be civil or ask for my side of things or introduce herself. She tried to
illegally gain access to my legal documents through my former advocate
who had allowed the Diocese of Winchester to destroy me.
I was
sickened to be contacted by the advocate and told this, sickened and
traumatized to be contacted by the woman who had allowed the diocese to
destroy me and had not defended me in any way. I was more sickened that
Steele had been allowed to continue her biased investigation despite my
formal complaints to the police about it being a conflict of interests
and that rather than speaking to me and politely introducing herself and
asking me to contact advocate Nicholl for the documents, she had
attempted to illegally obtain them, which knowing her reputation and
this biased investigation and the Jersey way, she will illegally obtain
those same documents somehow from advocate Nicholl or another source,
and I am helpless to stop her. Despite making it clear formally that I
forbade this illegal action.
And at the
same time, the Bishop decided that he had ahd enough of pretending to be
polite and would try to force his views on me and jeer that I could
'get a friend' to read whatever smooth talk he had whipped up through
Luther Pendragon, undoubtedly more smoothly veiled threats like the last
time. Neither myself nor my friends will read anything or listen to
anything from Bishop Dakin at any point, he had his say and gave his
opinion in his threats and his reinstatement of the Dean.
Sadly it was a
three-pronged attack, with a further effort from Christine Daly, after
asking her and everyone else who to submit my evidence to, repeatedly,
my query was ignored just as everything I have said has been ignored.
She sent me an email making it clear that my query was ignored and that
the investigation had proceeded without my evidence and that what little
evidence they had of mine was to be picked to pieces and that I had no
further say in the matter. It was already clear that this investigation
was a sham. And Christine had previously caused me deep deep distress
for which she hasn't apologized, by taking a note of the EMDR therapy
that my psychologist says I need and saying that she would see what
could be done to enable that therapy, and then more recently sending a
load of incomprehensible nonsense about the help I needed being Autism
Wessex and Autism London, as if either of those were therapy or even
accessible to me as neither are remotely near me and are NOT the therapy
that we discussed. I apologized for my angry reaction but it was made
quite clear to me through that that not a single person involved in this
cares about my welfare, my distress, my needs, the impact of this on my
whole life! This whole thing is like one hell of a horrible way to
drive someone beyond reason and to suicide, and I am gritting my teeth
and hanging on while my heart and blood pressure go mad! But I have
nothing to live for, I am trapped in a limbo, waiting for this awful
investigation which excludes me and my side, to conclude and kill me,
the only possible outcome of something that excludes my views as the
Korris report did and nearly killed me, is that I am to be ruined, I am
to be destroyed, I am to be driven to death by suicide or stress or
broken heart. I cannot take any more of this, the last four months have
driven me to desparation and I know that the more distressed I get, the
more likely I am, vulnerable and trapped by the Diocese, to be battered
and locked up, which in turn is likely to stop my heart.
And remember,
if the Diocese could trace me to attack my life after the Korris
report, they could have traced me to include me in it instead of writing
that utter rubbish that omitted Jane Fisher's destroyal of me, she is
the reason I remain on the streets and that my wounds will never heal,
her repeated rapes of my privacy and dignity and her attempts to have me
branded insane and put away. The Diocese had my email addresses and the
Korris report claims I blocked the Diocese whereas the truth is that I
blocked Jane Fisher and I told her both times, in Jersey and in
Winchester that I was blocking her because she traumatized me, Korris
and the Diocese could have emailed me instead of printing that rubbbish
that makes me want to die with shame and with outrage that fisher's back
was covered and she makes herself look good while if someone better
than her had been in charge then I would not be ruined and none of this
would have happened. I would be in Jersey and working and sailing,
whereas I live on the streets with scars nothing and no-one can heal.
I have been
advised by my psychologist that the current traumatic situation means I
cannot have EMDR, and even him working with me is risky because of the
high levels of trauma and distress.
I am in a
nightmare and cannot take any more shocks and attacks by the Diocese of
Winchester. Two years after they finished destroying me is two years too
late for a pretence of investigation which omits the very culprit of
all the wrong, Jane Fisher, who lied, bullied, was devious, covered
wrongdoers backs, blamed me, tried to 'teach me lessons' and covered for
people who attacked me on behalf of the abusers and wrongdoers,
excusing them by saying I was not attacked, that I had done wrong and
that people had apologized and therefore it was all ok, even though that
particiular attack was done on the grounds of slander and gossip, and
then Jane Fisher is responsible for the police attacks that have left me
with no future, because the brutalizations and detentions scream deep
deep in my soul and I will never feel safe indoors again, will never be
employable again with a record like that and never be able to live with
myself because of it. At age 32, my life is over, and yet I am suffering
it all again because the Diocese have used it all as an excuse to
launch on me and smash me to smithereens again. I was finished and as
good as dead before their attack, but I was peaceful, because I felt I
ahd escaped them at last.
And yet they
have been allowed to use the police to attack me and violate me despite
evrything and they have gone from that to leave me shaking and with
chest pains and suffering flashbacks, fury, sorrow and fear, for nothing
beneficial to me, just open-ended destroyal and no sign at all that I
will ever escape them. It is much more likely that this kills me, and
maybe police beatings and detentions will be involved, than the very
remote chance that I get to walk away with no further damage, that is
very remote indeed, and I can assure you I do not know what I did to
deserve this, I was already fully punished in a way that I would never
recover from for being autistic, being abused, being dependent, fighting
back to wrong treatment and standing up to Jane Fisher's rapes of my
life and privacy.
There was no
need to do this to me, I would die out here anyway, probably in the
winter or when I couldn't get food and my blood sugar got too low, but
it would have been peaceful, being driven to my death this way is
horrific.
****** - I have been forced to be called ****** again even though it is not my
legal name, the one DC Swift violently ripped off me
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Your dignity is amazing.
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