The Tide Has Turned for The Falsely Accused of Sexual Abuse: A Christian Perspective Robert G. HuebnerTuesday, August 5, 2014 - Accused - Miriam - Injustice Anywhere - Wrongful Convictions |
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It begins with the issues of false memory. I had heard of this phenomenon in the late 80's at a retreat led by an experienced addiction counsellor who counselled people and extended family and friends involved around addictions effecting their lives. I interviewed parents over the phone who had teens accuse them of sexual abuse due to seeing a therapist who insisted they were abused as a child but just could not remember. The parents described the horror they went through when their own child launched an attack against them, believing they were "abused" as a result of what therapists were doing. It was a huge problem.
The article : The emphasis of the entire article is that the Church (Christians) must play a role and be educated in these issues but mostly how scripture addresses how to deal with false allegations already
1. It discusses the plague of mostly middle class white parents having to recover after their daughters falsely accuse them of sexual abuse as a result of therapists and often as a result of the book called "The Courage to Heal"
2. He describes that in every case, the accuser is not allowed to be with the accused to begin some sort of reconciliation because it is assumed the accused is guilty and dangerous so the system at large gives no open door for reconciliation, just litigation and prosecution
3. The article goes on to explain what the False Memory Syndrome is and the foundation that contacted 18,000 families suffering from it to offer help
4. The article discusses the real nature of the problem and solutions and why abandoning certain principles causes these things to go badly.
Here are the principles, the problems and solution.
i) Christian therapists and Psychologists (and I will add Christian lawyers too) lack a clear understanding of Gods law. The law expresses Gods requirements and demands in scripture with the law: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour" Christian Lawyers should not be in the business of prosecuting or even or defending in cases unless they know biblical law and use scriptural principals
ii) To falsely accuse a parent breaks another Law: "Honor your father and mother as the Lord has commanded, that you may live long and that it may go well with you" (scripture mentions, "so that you may enter into the land God is giving you", as well)
iii) With the law around Honouring parents, the article discusses that agencies (and I will add agencies such as CAS, police, social services) should not be replacing parents God-given authority with secular policing, presuming guilt and automatically thinking this is a safety measure for alleged victims. This approach is not a safety measure. It is a disaster.
iv) It discusses that the accuser does not have to provide any proof of abuse what-so-ever, contrary to scriptural instructions on anger and giving evil a foothold (Eph 4:26 and Col 3:8) It is also contrary to the criminal code and to common sense.
v) The Law of 2 witnesses is a very important point which is made. This was a law in Deuteronomy which was a law to protect the innocent. The courts rarely use this. Especially family court which has what they call a "higher standard". This so called "higher standard" ignores biblical principals and ruins families
vi) Article discusses how the problem does not involve just the accused and accuser and how the community has to engage since allegations effect and damage many extended members of the community vii) The notion that children don't lie is also addressed and the belief of Social Service Agencies must always act in a "better safe than sorry" approach despite the fact that this flies in the face of a scientific approach, a scriptural approach to truth and justice
vii) Finally, it discusses what needs to be done and that is to address the problems for what they really are, play a strong role in preventing those false allegations from getting out of hand by applying the principals that have been laid out already, many years ago. That is to honour parents, don't bear false witness, provide proof , have reliable witnesses who are upstanding witnesses instead of false witnesses, know biblical law and fight against false belief systems which perpetuate liars and support more false allegations to occur. Source: |
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