In early August when I heard that Lowell Goddard had chosen to step down from the child abuse inquiry,
I literally started to cry. That she initially resigned without any
explanation made it even worse. It was a sharp shock. Survivors of
sexual abuse are used to the world opening up underneath their feet and
dropping down into nothingness, and that same feeling of upset returned
to me from over 30 years ago when I heard the news.
The chaos, rumours, resignations and industrial-strength ineptness that have both preceded Goddard and, more disconcertingly, followed her exit – culminating this week in not only the departure of Ben Emmerson QC but also his deputy Elizabeth Prochaska – have left me with just a single question: what the actual fuck is happening here?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/30/child-sexual-abuse-inquiry-survivors-children-theresa-may
The chaos, rumours, resignations and industrial-strength ineptness that have both preceded Goddard and, more disconcertingly, followed her exit – culminating this week in not only the departure of Ben Emmerson QC but also his deputy Elizabeth Prochaska – have left me with just a single question: what the actual fuck is happening here?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/30/child-sexual-abuse-inquiry-survivors-children-theresa-may