First national encounter for the rights of children and teenagers

20 November, 2019

In Jalisco, Mexico, the First National Encounter for Children and Adolescents Rights was inaugurated, together with the first National Conference against Child Sexual Abuse.

30th anniversary of the Convention on the Children Rights

The rights were compiled during the meeting to discuss the guarantees and protections that children are given today, one of the most vulnerable sectors of Mexican society.

Authorities of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), together with state and federal authorities, commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Children Rights, an international treaty signed on November 20, 1989 and ratified by 196 countries.

It is estimated that, in Mexico, with a child population of 39.2 million, 63% of boys, girls and adolescents have suffered some type of violence.

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), each year approximately 4 and a half million girls and boys are victims of sexual abuse in the Aztec country. In the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office there have been 1467 complaints of sexual abuse of infants so far this year.

Child sexual abuse is an issue that is becoming increasingly delicate. It is often committed within the family or by close people, which leads organizations such as the Attorney General’s Office to work intensively in the area of prevention of this crime.

Besides, the responsible authorities provide boys, girls and adolescents with different protective elements that they should know in case of child sexual abuse. Therefore, the Attorney General does an emotional shielding job, which is carried out with minors from an early age, so they are able to recognize the progress of someone close to them.

Currently, the parents of the victims have dared to make complaints on behalf of their minor children. In practice, many of the aggressors were also victims of abuse during their childhood.

Identify child sexual abuse

Source: Psicología Forense Argentina – Estudio Pericial Psicológico

In Mexico, 6 out of 10 fathers and mothers do not know how to identify the symptoms that warn about sexual abuse in children, as well as facing or reacting to a sexual assault on children situation. The problem is that the majority of them do not even know the laws.

On the National Day Against Child Sexual Abuse, which is commemorated on November 19, the Civil Organization Guardianes presented the report Violence in Early Childhood, whose results are based on 400 interviews conducted throughout the country.

According to the study, in Mexico only 56% were able to recognize some psychological symptoms related to possible cases of sexual abuse, such as fear of being with certain people, depression, aggressiveness or anxiety. On the other hand, 45% knew how to recognize any symptoms related to changes in the children’s behavior, such as:

Isolation
Low school performance
Drastic changes in personality

Many cases of abuse remain in ignorance, without treatment and with a high risk that the circle of silence will be repeated in a generational way. According to the report, 6 out of 10 fathers and mothers said they suffered some type of abuse during their childhood.

One of the key symptoms is the change in the child’s behavior. For example, those who are very active and suddenly cease to be like that. It is also important to notice when children are afraid of being around certain people or show signs of stress.

Mexico: eight out of 10 Victims of Child Abuse are Girls

Rafael Núñez

14 November, 2019

The Early Institute association presented an update of the document Diagnose on the Situation of Sex Child Abuse, which revealed that eight of 10 victims of sex abuse in Mexico are girls. However, it is difficult to know exactly the number of complaints filed for this crime in this country, this is due to the lack of data and the impunity to deal with the complaints of abuse to minors.

High Rates of Violence towards Children in Mexico

During the presentation of the document, the difficulties of knowing the exact number of denounces filed for sex abuse in children in Mexico, since there is not an established age Rank and some government entities do not specify the gender of the victims.

With this document, the Early Institute diagnose the context of violence against minors in Mexico. Moreover, there was data collected to have the exact figures regarding this topic and the impunity existing towards these crimes.

Image taken from the official Facebook account of Early Institute

Some of the objectives of document’s update is to inform about the violence minors suffer, in general terms, and to denounce that the sentences for this crime are extremely low, thus revealing a high rate in impunity.

According to official information, for every 100 cases, only two receive sentence; regarding child abuse –as previously mentioned- the numbers are even lower, but there are not exact numbers.

Mexico has a problem with the typifying this crime, since there are 32 different Penal Codes, some of which do not typify sex abuse. Nonetheless, right now there is a penal code on the making to better typify crimes like child sex abuse.

Including Policies to Protect Children

Early Institute is known as a think tank. It is dedicated to the analysis and design of proposals to include policies that guarantee the well-being of children and the protection of four fundamental rights: life, health, education, and family.

The institution started a project to prevent Child Abuse in Mexico –which has the highest rates in the American country-, through the construction of a community of knowledge and information that generates scientific and technical evidences to strengthen the capacities to detect, analyze, and give response to said cases of abuse.

The development of the diagnostic document has the purpose to create informed dialogues and to generate solutions, suggestions, and public policies to prevent child sex abuse.

During the presentation of the latest report, representatives of The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) were present. They stated there is legislative progress to reduce violence against children, however, due to the conditions of vulnerability, it its clear the risk persists.

Therefore, they must make sure justice and security and justice prevails; a challenge that must be executed under specific international standards and strategies according to each type. The UNDOC assists in this regard with preventive strategies like the creation of a video game for children and guidelines to know how to take care of themselves.

Sexual Violence in Children: Colombia Strengthen Alliance for Prevention

Rafael Núñez

28 October, 2019

CPIU Sexual Violence in Children Colombia Strengthen Alliance for Prevention 01 — Image taken from the official Facebook account of the Programa Pisotón Uninorte

Colombian offices –Prosecution, the Colombian Institute of Family Well-being (ICBF, in Spanish), the Ministry of Justice, and the Programa Pisotón of the University of the North– announced a strategic alliance to prevent sexual violence in children. Every member will support the instruction, the resources, and the necessary staff to early detect possible cases and to act swiftly when these situations take place.

Prevention of Child Sexual Violence

The prosecutor in charge on the matter of Children and Adolescents stated that all the cases of sexual violence denounced over the last five years, only 10% have had sentences.

Image taken from the official Facebook account of the Programa Pisotón Uninorte

He also talked about the importance of believing in what children say to take the necessary actions. Statistics show that over the fiver-year period there were almost 150 thousand denounces for crimes against children, 10% of those had an actual sentences, and other cases are still being investigated.

Nowadays, Colombia is facing sex exploitation of minors, some of which end up in criminal networks, due to migration issue Venezuelan children live in the borders.

Many women, little girls and adolescents migrate looking for a better future and they partake as victims in these criminal networks where they found a way to make money.

The states of Atlántico, Bogotá and Valle del Cauca have the most cases of sexual violence on children. Colombia has 10,528 cases of sexual violence, this means an average of 39 cases every day.

The strategic alliance of the Programa Pisotón happens as a clear example of the psychosocial recovery of children whose rights have been violated. There are 500 communitarian mother being trained on how to approach abused children and how to notice these cases.

Programa Pisotón

The program of Psychoactive Development and Emotional Education from the University of Norte was created with educational purposes by using a method of developing different ludic activities, thus creating pedagogic alternative for teachers meant to help children and to prevent and reduce risk situations in their close environment.

The program takes into consideration the family, the institution and the community as a bridge to achieve the holistic development of children.

The educational ludic techniques used in this program are:

Stories
Psychodramas
Game
Reenactments

The idea with these activities is to facilitate expressing emotion, knowledge of oneself and the correct handling of children, their families and instructors in the right conditions of high vulnerability.

The impact of this program goes beyond border, it has been awarded with the Child Word Award in 2019, in the category of Professional Excellence by the World Education Organization, Omeedi, thanks to its work in favor of little boys and girls.

Pisotón has been leaving its mark for 20 years in the communities where it has been implemented, helping children express their emotions, to have an understanding of themselves, and to achieve conflict resolution in everyday situations as well as high vulnerability situations.

Child Sex Abuse: over 150 Cases of Catholic Priests in Denver

Rafael Núñez

25 October, 2019

Colorado’s Prosecutor Office presented a detailed report that gather, at least, 166 cases of sexual abuse to minors, done by 43 Catholic priests since 1950 until today. Also, the document denounces the lack of action the ecclesiastic authorities had before this situation.

Denouncing the Abuse

The 263-pages report is set by the state’s maximum authority for accusations, the Prosecutor’s Office. The report compiles several disturbing and graphic stories of sex abuse to minors; these were documented by the authorities.

As a result of this investigation, Colorado’s Office filed a total of 166 cases of minors victimized by 43 Catholic priests. Most cases, 127 of those denounced by the Archdiocese of Denver, took place during the 60s and 70s.

As to the victims, 149 are boys who, at the time the crime was committed, were between the ages of 10 and 14. On the other hand, it was known that three Denver priests committed most of these abuses.

The most recent and verified incident by the Catholic Church is from 1989, in Pueblo, and the most recent denounced filed was in 2011, in the same city. Early this decade, the Catholic dioceses from Colorado began the process of immediate suspension of the accused priests, a different attitude from the one they had: waiting almost 20 years to take actions.

The archdiocese gave access to the personal files of the priests, including those not in service and those deceased, which help verified if the said priests were still in service, and to identify other potential cases of abuse.

70 Years of Abuse of Limits and Children with Issues

Image Taken from the Official Facebook Account of Everyone against Child Sex Abuse

It is estimated that in the last 70 years, in the dioceses of Denver, these abuses have taken place, but have been classified as euphemism to hide their real nature.

The prosecutor declared that is a dark and painful chapter in history, and made a call to denounced possible new victims, whose cases and testimonies have not been compiled in the investigation.

Until 1990, the Church classified the cases of abuse as a series of children problems or violation of limits caused by nervousness, it was an euphemism used by the Church to hide the abuses.

According to the report, most acts were committed by five priests who abused 102 children. Of these 100 cases, only 10 were denounced to the police.

The victims represented by the Network of Survivors of Molestation by Priests, known as SNAP in Spanish, wait for the accusations of child sex abuse to be remitted to the District Prosecutor’s Office to open the opportunity to file denounces, even if these are too old or the accused are dead.

Moreover, there should have been included the abuses done by priests before they were ordeal. It was also omitted any sexual misconduct from the cleric with adults, including other people from within the Church like sisters, and men in the seminary.

International Pedophilia Network Dismantled

Rafael Núñez

21 October, 2019

British and American authorities announced the dismantled of one of the biggest networks accused of selling of pedophilic videos on the Internet, specifically on the Dark Web. The operation lead to the arrest of 337 suspects in 38 countries.

Rescued and Released Children

The British Agency of Crime Fighting announced that during the operation against pedophilia, 23 children were released and, at least, 337 suspects were captured from 38 countries. This operation is considered one of the most important strikes to this type of crime.

The international network worked through encrypted web pages in what is known as the Dark Web. Its main server was in South Korea, where the sexual abuse content to minors was monetized and sold in Bitcoins.

There were found over 250,000 videos on the web site. The users had done more than a million downloads paid with crypto currency, said the agency.

It was a coordinated action between different countries, and it that resulted in the liberation of at least 23 minors sexually exploited. The victims were recorded on video by the molesters; the videos were sold on the web site Welcome to Video, now shutdown, on the Dark Web.

Welcome to Video

The web site was online from 2015 to March 2018, it is estimated that the web page received 420 Bitcoin, or the equivalent to 360 thousand dollars when the payments were made in, approximately, 7,300 transactions, said the Department of Justice during the announcement. By selling videos with Bitcoin, it renders tracking buyers difficult.

The server was confiscated by the American, British, and Korean police on March 5th, 2018; its operator –Son Jong Woo, age 23– was arrested and imprisoned in South Korea. Since that moment, hundreds of users have been arrested in 12 countries.

The American authorities revealed the formal accusation against Son Jong Woo and announced the seizing of crypto currency accounts of 24 people in five countries, these accounts were use to finance the web page and to promote children exploitation.

This collaboration happened after the British investigation against Matthew Falder, a scientist from this country accused and sentenced, in 2017, to 25 years in prison for sex crimes against minors.

Falder accepted the 137 accusations of online abuse, including promoting raping children, and even a baby. He was one the first to produce videos and then sell them with Bitcoin.

The web page Welcome to Video hosted the biggest market of sexual exploitation because of the volume of content. Only in the US, there have been 92 people investigated; many of those have been accused and condemned.

The American Prosecutor affirmed that is was one of the first occasions where it was detected the use of the crypto currency in trafficking child pornography.

The web page had 250,000 videos and users downloaded more than a million archives. The investigation proved it was possible to track these criminals on the Dark Web and that they cannot hide their identities behind crypto currency accounts.

The worldwide investigation gathered 38 countries, in which the United Kingdom, the United States, South Korea, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia were part of it.

Explicit Video of Child Abuse in Social Networks

Rafael Núñez

18 October, 2019

The images of a little girl being abused by an adult in exchange for food in Mexico have gone through social networks. The video opened the discussion on the issue that puts this country on first place of child abuse cases, forcing authorities to implement hard policies to end this crime.

Sex in Exchange for Food on an early Age

The video shows a little girl of nine years old being taken by an adult to a remote area to abuse her. By the end of it, the man gives her a package of what seems to be food, and then takes her to where her bicycle is.

The reactions did not wait: people showed their anger. The authorities of the city of Ixtepec, where the terrible situation took place, condemned the abuse, which is a reflection of the tragedy that Mexican children live.

In figures, Mexico has the first place with the most cases of child abuse in Latin America, 5.4 million per year. According to studies from the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development (OCED), the states with the most cases of abuse are Tiaxcala, Queretaro and Chihuahua.

85% of these abuses are done by relatives, and only one in ten cases is denounced. In most cases, a member of the family is responsible for this crime, or people that live nearby or that frequently visit places where children play, gaining their parents trust.

When the Enemy is at Home

The predators may come from whom you least expect. Moreover, the inefficiency of the penal and civil justice system has caused children to become victims time and again. Mexico has the lowest budget to fight this huge issue: only 1% of the resources destined by the government are for prevention and protection of sexual abuse and exploitation, according to the United Nations Funds

In the survey for prevention of crime and violence, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography indicates that:

Rape affects 1,764 boys, girls, and adolescents out of 100,000 children and adolescents ages between 12 and 17.
Molestations or inappropriate touchingrepresent 5,089 cases for every 100,000 children and adolescents.

Taking aggressors to justice is a painful process for the victims. It is also difficult to fight for civil matters when the aggressors claim they have rights over the minor because they are related. This means, when the offender is a direct relative of the victim, the judicial authorities can enforce family living arrangements, exposing the minor to his molester.

Filing a law suit for child custody is even harder as long as the offender lives with its victim, thus legalizing the abuse, and allowing it to continue.

In addition, society outs a stigma on sexual abuse victims, and creates limits wit social interactions.

Pedophilia: WhatsApp can Block Jokes About it

Rafael Núñez

15 October, 2019

WhatsApp, the world’s most used message app, blocked the account of thousands of users after they made viral an inappropriate joke on child pornography.

Defying the System with Jokes

A group of young people came up with a joke with the idea of defying messaging platform’s system and its policies against inappropriate uses by posing as a group related to child pornography distribution.

In first place, the system detects the key word or phrase, then, through an alert, it blocks the accounts of those participating in the group.

Currently, chat groups in the messaging app are used more frequently to channel information to various people. The young students, from an Argentinean school, changed the class’ group name to Child Porn.

Immediately, the rest of the group received a message from the app notifying about their account’s blockage. The students changed the name, and left the group to avoid being blocked as well.

Since there cannot be any sort of legal actions for these types of jokes, the people involved will receive nothing more than a blockage from the app.

The British Police will have Access to Facebook and WhatsApp

The United Kingdom and the USA signed an agreement that will come into force in November 2019. It will force the messaging apps to ease the access to encrypted messages suspicious of being related to major crimes like pedophilia or terrorism, among others.

Through this agreement, the USA-based social network platforms, like Facebook and WhatsApp, will have to share to British Police all encrypted messages from any user suspect of committing major felonies.

As soon as the agreement is signed, the tech giants have to grant access to the police to any message suspect of terrorist attacks or pedophilia, for example. Text message apps, like Messenger from Facebook, are often used by criminal groups to contact their victims.

Currently, UK authorities can only access the encrypted information when there is an immediate threat to life, in what is known as emergency leak.

The agreement has the limitation of not investigating citizens from the other country, that is, the British cannot investigate Americans while in the county. In addition, and as part of the agreement, the information obtained from British citizens cannot be used in cases of death penalty.

This new agreement is a key tool to fight against terrorism and sex abuse, thus rendering Facebook, it messaging app, Messenger, and WhatsApp a useless platform for criminal to use.

Pope Francis accepted the bishop’s resignation, who was accused of abuse

Rafael Núñez

14 October, 2019

Pope Francis accepted the bishop John Jenik‘s resignation -who used to work as an auxiliary in New York- because he was accused of sexually abusing a teenager in the 1980 decade. The information was given by the Vatican, maintaining its compromise of applying the laws on the cleric members who have been accused of these crimes.

Denied accusations

John Jenik was chosen to be an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of New York in 2014. His job consisted of supporting the State’s archbishop with his functions. Since the last year, Jenik stopped offering public priestly activities and he moved from his parish in the Bronx. Also, he denied all the sexual abuse accusations against him.

On October 29th, 2018, he wrote a letter for his parishioners, quoted by the New York Times, he said: “I am still denying that I have abused someone at some point. For this reason, I will ask the Vatican, who has the maximum authority in these cases, to review this subject, hoping that they can prove my innocence ultimately.”

Although the bishop affirms his innocence, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said that the archdiocese Laity Review Board concluded that the accusation was believable and founded, so they sent the case to the Holy See to do a deeper investigation. The reason for this is that the Pope is the only authority that may decide a bishop’s destiny.

This is the same archdiocese that received countless denounces for inappropriate sexual conduct against the former cardinal Theodore McCarrick. These cases forced accountability on the American ecclesiastic hierarchy.

New York’s attorney general announced a civil investigation on the sexual abuse accusations and the catholic diocese concealing. These unleashed a wave of cases aperture in over a dozen states within the United States, related to sexual abuse. In these cases, there are more than 1,700 religious linked to the church in this country that were denounced for inappropriate sexual conduct.

A believable accusation.

The man who accused the bishop -Michael J. Meenan, 52 years old- affirms that he informed the archdiocese about the inappropriate relationship before doing the public denounce. Bishop Jenik became friends with the victim when he was around 13 years old, in the Nuestra Señora del Refugio church in the Bronx, where the religious man served as a priest from 1978.

For decades, the Vatican covered up or pretended not to see the cases where bishops or cardinals raped or harassed children and adults. This fact forced the maximum authority to take steps to make the church’s members this kind of conduct.

The law titled “You are the world’s light” forces the high hierarchies and other cleric members to report and inform their superiors about any believable abuse situation. Equally important, this law extends the responsibility to those church members who try to conceal or interfere with any civil or canonic investigation.

However, even with all these measures, demanding reports in any abuse situation has not been enough. The Pope denied one of his cardinals’ resignation after covering a predator priest who sexually abused underage Boy Scouts during the ’80s and the ’90s.

In that opportunity, the French cardinal Philippe Barbarin requested his resignation to the Vatican, after being declared guilty before the penal justice because he did not inform the police about these cases. The request was denied by the Pope, who ensured that he would not accept his resignation while there was not a sentence in the court and the trial followed its course.

Cardinal Barbarin is the most important French cleric involved in the worldwide Catholic Church’s pedophilia scandal. He lives at the Lyon archdiocese.

Child pornography: How do pedophiles hide on the Internet?

Rafael Núñez

9 October, 2019

Colombia and the United States of America participated in an operative to identify 13 fake Facebook accounts. These accounts had a connection with 10.900 profiles, all of them belong to underaged people. The idea behind these fake accounts was to catch these kids’ attention, gain their trust, and get personal information as well as sexual content images.

10.000 pics on social networks

In Colombia, a man was captured after the authorities found out more than 10 thousand pictures of victims in his social networks -all of them between 9 and 14 years old-. The victims were from Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, and Argentina.

The aggressor created fake profiles in his cybercafe and used them to act as if he was another kid. He intended to get the other children’s attention. Once he did that, he managed to gain these minor children’s trust and personal information, mostly girls. Once he got what he wanted, he asked them for sexual content images that he would use to threaten them so he could force them to send more pornographic material.

During the last nine years, at least 5,583 cases of sexual crimes related to Internet access have been presented in Colombia. However, only 1,083 have been resolved this year; among these cases, we can find:

202 grooming cases (fake profiles created by adults to get closer to their underage victims).
281 sextortion cases
73 cyberbullying cases
93 unauthorized sharing cases, related to sexual content images.

Sexual child abuse content is not only found in the deep web and the dark web. This content can also be found in covered pages in browsers like Google, social networks, WhatsApp groups, and other messaging apps.

Besides keywords like Caldo de Pollo, Club Penguin, Código Postal or CP, among many others whose initials coincide with Child Pornography; pedophiles also use symbols to identify sexual child content on the Internet.

A blue double triangle is used to represent boy sexual abuse on the Internet. The symbol is known as Blogo or Boy lover. Some variations include thinner lines that mean that it is related to younger kids, while thicker lines refer to older boys or teenagers.

On the other hand, the double heart symbol exists or Globo, Girl Lover, used to identify pedophiles that prefer girls. Those places with mixed content identify themselves with a blue butterfly and a pink one, Go. Some of these symbols belong to trademarks and were plagiarized with another purpose.

Combating pedophilia through a backdoor

To fight pedophilia, countries like the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Australia, have encouraged Facebook to allow the police to special access some content if the social network keeps going with its messaging services encryption.

Authorities -in an open letter for the social network’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg- asked easier and faster access to users’ communications in cases of terrorism or pedophilia suspicion. They are asking for legal access to these communications’ content, in a simple and usable format.

The end-to-end encryption prevents other people from accessing messages sent through direct conversations. The reason to ask the social network to change this is that Facebook Messenger has become the pedophiles’ favorite messaging service. They use it to stalk and harass their victims and share pornographic content.

Facebook has said that this encryption is used to protect people’s privacy while they are connecting with each others and that they do not have access to chat’s content. Also, they condemned that these security tools are being used to commit crimes. Besides, they are responsible and they promise that they will work with law enforcement authorities to prevent these things as much as possible.

The social network works on improving its abilities to identify and detain aggressors and criminals in all its apps. They are using a pattern detection system and some other tools, even when they cannot check the content of the messages.

Catholic Church members that were accused of aggression maintain contact with children

Rafael Núñez

7 October, 2019

About 1,700 priests and other Roman Catholic Church clergy members who were accused of child sexual abuse still have contact with children without religious or policial authorities supervision, according to a special investigation by the news agency The Associated Press.

Around the children

Some of the priests, deacons, monks, and laities accused, after leaving the church, do things such as:

Teach high school math
Advise survivors of sexual abuse
Work as nurses
Volunteer in nonprofit organizations that help children in a state of vulnerability

A publication of the Archdiocese of New York with the names of the members of the clergy who were accused of pedophilia has provided information on how they live and how to track and monitor them since they were never criminally charged. Instead, they were expelled from the church, which allowed them to live like normal people within communities.

The Archdiocese has its own criteria to determine if the priest has actually committed abuse. The accusations range from:

Inappropriate conversations
Unwanted hugs
Sexual assaults on children

So far, the diocese and religious orders have shared the names of at least 5,100 members of the clergy with credible accusations. The AP investigated almost 2,000 members who are still alive and determined where they have lived and worked. The results showed that:

160 continued to work – being paid or volunteering- in Catholic diocese churches abroad.
190 obtained professional licenses to work with infants in education, medicine, social work, and legal advice.

Besides, there are found cases in which the priests were repeat offenders. Clerics were included in a list of credibly accused people never faced criminal prosecution for the abuses committed, which frees them from having a verifiable background before the state boards and services when they look for a new job and allow them to live without problems in other communities that ignore the presence and past of these people.

Police authorities can only supervise those who have been convicted after a court ruling, otherwise, it would be considered harassment.

The New Your Diocese excludes clerics accused of abuse

After the Archdiocese publication with the names of the clergy, Judge Barbara Jones —named by the Cardinal of New York, after a year of conducting an independent study on how the archdiocese processes sexual abuse allegations against its members- issued a report highlighting that substantial complaints are outside that ministry, besides including a series of recommendations.

The stipulated protocols regarding complaints of sexual assault are carried out strictly. The independent investigation that is carried out on the accusation is presented to a Lay Review Board that will decide if the allegation is justified.

Judge Jones, in her final report, set that the Archdiocese must follow certain measures to keep sexual abuse at bay:

Hire a person to supervise and follow up on sexual abuse complaints as the sole responsibility
Improve independent research practices
Demand an annual training that includes working techniques with children in safe environments
Include the relationship between the Archdiocese and the ten district attorneys of the New York area in the protocols
Suggest that the New York Catholic hierarchy remain receptive to new claims and complaints
Include new members with additional experience areas to the Lay Review Board
Technologically Modernize the Archdiocese, to carry out these processes more effectively, which includes the clerics’ records tracking.

These current practices improvements are followed by the recognition given to the allegations of abuse, along with the commitment to support victims and survivors of abuse.