The fake abuse compensation cases are starting to come out of the woodwork of the victim-industrial complex. Taxpayers are forking out enormous sums of money for “sexual abuse” that never happened.
But this is much worse than a blatant scam defrauding the taxpayer – it’s causing massive damage. Both to the falsely accused fathers and, worse, their children.
Compensating a child for sexual abuse that had never actually occurred could do “enormous damage” and is “akin to abuse itself”, says a family law reform lobby group[…]
In two cases, $10,000 payouts were made to children to “recognise” the trauma of sexual abuse by their fathers, although the allegations were rejected by the Family Court.
There’s no minimising what these payouts are doing – they are saying that these innocent men are child molesters. They are telling children that their own fathers sexually abused them.
Even though it never happened.
One of the fathers, given the Family Court pseudonym Mr Grainger, had launched a legal challenge to his daughter’s payout because he feared the money would reinforce a “false narrative” that she had been abused by him as a toddler[…]
“The poor little guy has been brainwashed into believing that I have sexually abused him,” [another man] said.
“All this is going to do is reinforce in his mind that I have abused him.”
Both fathers said they had been harassed online as “pedophiles” because their former partners had used the payments as “proof” of their children’s abuse.
These scam-artist payments also undermine and trivialise the suffering of people who really have been abused.
For Kids Sake ambassador Karen Clarke said it was “entirely appropriate” that abuse victims received government support and some needed help for life.
But she said it could do “enormous damage” if a young person was given money for a crime or abuse they had not experienced.
“Though people may be inclined to think this can do no harm, this is not true: if it reinforces a belief that’s false, it’s akin to abuse itself,” she said.
“And if this reinforcement comes from an authority figure or government, it can be particularly damaging.”
But the final word should go to Mr. Grainger:
“I cannot, and will not, admit to a crime I did not commit.”
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