VERPHY KUDI AND ASIAH KUDI - WHAT SENTENCE FOR THE POWERFUL?
What happened to Asiah is unimaginable and horrendous. Verphy has been sentenced to nine years, a lifetime of opprobrium and a journey perhaps, as she matures, into unfathomable regret. However, disturbing questions remain. Why did Verphy become withdrawn and truant at 14? When Social Services intervened, were they not culpable for failing to protect Verphy from the child sexual exploitation she then suffered, while in their ‘safe’ house in Norfolk. Verphy’s abuse resulted in her bearing Asiah and becoming responsible for her, at an age, and in a way that led to catastrophe. Then, what of the charity YMCA Downslink, purportedly providing a sheltered accommodation block for vulnerable families, with a reception and CCTV, but who failed to notice Verphy’s regular outings, without her child. It seems that Social Services, the judicial system, and the media are content to demonise and scapegoat Verphy, while the advantaged and powerful collude together to conceal what may have been their inexcusable failings. The public must identify and resist this continuing systemic oppression of the poor, whereby the educated and privileged are able to exonerate themselves, while condemning those who are victims of their neglect and incompetence, the evil that blights the young, and our unequal society, to prison.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9871273/Teen-mother-19-left-starving-baby-11-times-two-months.html
ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE - MY LIFE - PART ONE
ARCHBISHOP JONATHAN BLAKE - MY LIFE - PART TWO
I AM PROUD OF MY WRITING, FOR JESUS’S SAKE, THAT HAS HAD ME FOUND INNOCENT IN HEAVEN, BUT TWICE A CRIMINAL ON THE EARTH. THE FIRST IN 1990 WHEN I WROTE A BIBLICAL TEXT ON THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT IN PEACEFUL PROTEST ABOUT THE BOMBING OF YOUNG IRAQI RECRUITS DURING THE FIRST GULF WAR. THE SECOND, IN 2016 WHEN I WROTE ON MY BLOG, TO ALERT THE PUBLIC ABOUT A PAEDOPHILE, AND WAS SUCCESSFUL IN FORCING THE AUTHORITIES TO STOP HIM HAVING ACCESS TO CHILDREN. THERE WAS ALMOST A THIRD! IN 1997, WHEN I WAS ARRESTED FOR NAILING MY PROPOSALS FOR REFORM OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ON THE DOOR OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. WORDS ARE POWERFUL MESSAGES THAT CHALLENGE CORRUPTION, CONFRONT THE WICKED AND CREATE A BETTER WORLD. JESUS IS THE WORD OF GOD AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE CALLED TO COMMUNICATE HIS WORDS, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE COST.
"You brave, courageous and wonderful man. To stand up for the truth
in the face of suppression and oppression is truly an act of a pure heart."
posted by Bishop Jonathan Blake | 7:32 PM
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