Recently I was asked if my quote in this Herald article meant that I thought that ACC were deliberately looking for ways to decline claims, a contentious assertion to be sure. I don’t think that, and I said so. Such a crude and simplistic explanation clearly makes little sense. I harbour no ideas that the day to day workers in ACC have any cruel or malevolent intent, mostly I’m sure they are following orders and doing as much as they can within the limits imposed upon them. What interests me is what do the architects of this new aproach think to enable them to act in the ways they have over the last twelve months?Click here to read more.
16 July 2010
Ideology of denial
A blog entry by Kyle MacDonald
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Yay Kyle!!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, isn't it interesting to see people who have such strong links even today with convicted child sex offenders developing policy for ACC in this area. Only ACC think Felicity Goodyear-Smith to be an "expert" in this area.
ReplyDeleteFelicity Goodyear-Smith has had 2 decades of conflict with DSAC (Doctors for Sexual Abuse Care).
History
1. FGS was a police doctor in the early 1980s & apparently wrote a sexual assault examination guide for medical practitioners.
2. On the basis of this early work she & a few other founding doctors were given life memberships of DSAC.
3. From 1990 (when Bert was arrested on drugs charges) to about 1992-3 (when Felicity was arrested on perjury charges [but not convicted at her trial in 1993]) her membership was a cause of increasing concern to DSAC. She was asked to resign but refused to do so.
4. Eventually, with the agreement of all the other life-members, DSAC formerly rescinded all life-memberships as well as that category of membership, and those concerned were required to reapply for membership. Felicity's reapplication was refused and has been ever since.
5. I am not sure of the formal reasons given at that time for her exclusion.
Currently, despite legal threats, DSAC continues to refuse FGS membership.
Link to Sunday Star Times on this matter:
http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/sunday-star-times-wellington-new-zealand/mi_8185/is_20091011/legal-threats-abuse-row/ai_n51671659/
DSAC is constrained from commenting publicly in the face of legal threats.
DSAC's on going refusal of membership is likely to be based on:
1. FGS's consistent, vigorous and exclusive alignment in her writings and court appearances with alleged perpetrators
2. FGS's demonstrated willingness in her 2007 'gonorrhea paper' to present shoddy research
3. Questions which remain about possible failure in duty of care of her patients (especially pre-teen and teenage girls) during her 4 years as the Centrepoint Community doctor, which correspond exactly to institutionalised illegal drug use and Bert Potter's drugs-for-sex activities with pre-teen & teenage girls.
4. FGS's construction of all those acting for the victims as being part of a 'sexual abuse industry'...
Ref: Goodyear-Smith, F. (1993). First do no harm: The sexual abuse industry. Auckland, NZ: Benton-Guy Publishing
5. FGS's 'sexual abuse industry' construction is consistent with the attitudes and ideology of her father-in-law Bert Potter.