http://piisafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2 ... eport2.pdfPii writes 18 pages about the preferential treatment given to Dr Donn Ketcham. See pages 99-117 of the report.
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"This section will demonstrate
decades of preferential treatment afforded Donn Ketcham
by ABWE in dealing with his inappropriate and abusive behaviors toward fellow
missionaries, missionary children, and Nationals. This will include an overall picture of
how his
family name, his medical profession, and his
domineering personality played a
part in this preferential treatment i.e., the various inappropriate behaviors he exhibited,
his responses to his inappropriate behavior, and actions taken by Donn Ketcham toward
other missionaries. This analysis is critical in that if ABWE and its leadership had at any
juncture removed Donn Ketcham from the field and/or from the organization, significant
portions of his affirmed pedophilia of young women on the hospital compound, and
perhaps in the National population, would not have been possible."
"Exceptions to the rule and inconsistencies in discipline:
The investigation affirmed that the ABWE Board and Administration
repeatedly
violated its Principles and Practices and consistently gave Donn
Ketcham preferential treatment."
"ABWE’s Principles and Practices were not enforced for Donn Ketcham"
Does this sound familiar, for those of us who have been following developments in NTM?
Have there been any signs of preferential treatment given to child abusers, because of a family name, family ties to people currently serving in the mission, or someone's domineering personality?
Yes, indeed. Prevalent. Because of the intermarriage that has taken place in the mission family, and because multiple generations often continue in "the work", there have definitely been instances when it appears to me that people have received preferential treatment. We don't want to upset people's children or grandchildren, do we? (I am not unsympathetic to the deep and painful consequences to family members, when a missionary's abusive past comes to light. But that does NOT mean a perpetrator deserves protection. What they did was WRONG. It is just as wrong if the son of a mission leader commits a crime as it is if a short-term nobody does it.)
NTM has repeatedly violated its own rules. Such standards hold no value, if mission leadership keeps coming up with "valid" reasons not to enforce them.
Why was Gary Earl required to resign, instead of being dismissed, as required by mission policy?
Why was Frank Parker's pedophilia softened to "acts of misconduct against minors", when the IHART report clearly stated that he had committed sexual, physical, and emotional abuse? Why were his supporters not informed of the findings?
Why is Susan Major still listed as a retired member of the mission?
Time and again, NTM has not followed through with the consequences spelled out by their own policies. Yes, I know these situations are complicated. Yes, I realize there are often many factors to consider, including the collateral damage inflicted on innocent people.
But for goodness sake! What's the point of having policies, if there's always a way around them??
Integrity. Integrity means being
consistently honest and moral. If principles are not consistently followed, I don't think the word "integrity" really fits anymore.
What do you think, NTM?
Any preferential treatment in your history?