Source The Age: IN JANUARY last year, Mal Garvin was awarded the Order of Australia for ''service to the community'' and for ''the development of social welfare programs that support and guide young people, and as a broadcaster and author''.
Garvin, well-known in Melbourne a decade ago for his weekly religious radio broadcasts, is an evangelist who founded a youth program called Fusion in the 1960s. It now has branches throughout Australia and overseas.
Just months after receiving the award, the 68-year-old was displaying his medal and boasting about it at the bedside of a young woman who had tried to kill herself, allegedly to escape his sexual advances.
A few months after that, the spiritual leader quietly ''retired'' from the youth and community network he had built, after Fusion Australia's national executive found him guilty of ''inappropriate behaviour'' and ''errors of judgment'' with ''a vulnerable young woman''.
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Nigel of Richmond said...
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Nothing more sickening than creeps who go around quoting the Bible only to get their rocks off by bullshitting crap to the young and innocent. You have to ask yourself is this the first, I doubt it - you know the old adage you only stop when you get caught. I hope he dies a lonely old man.
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March 22, 2010 at 1:13 PM
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KBT said...
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One of the hardest things is when people hide behind insecurities rather than owning their own behavior with out lies or misconceptions. I was once a student at Poatina and it was not the most easiest place yet I am now a youth worker. I know the both people and I also have been sexually abused my own father from the age of 2 -12. A lot of what this woman is describing is almost a replica of my abuse. My stomach churned as I read the report. God never bruises a tender reed..only men do and I so wish that I could just close my eyes and not think that this could happen in a place where children are meant to be seen,, valued and respected. Victims in my opinion never truly heal from these experiences we just find ways to make sense of them. but often we can not make sense out of nonsense..so we just come to peace with it.
Mr Garvin I hope you are telling the truth yet I know the victim and she is kind and considerate always caring and aware of the space of others. I look at both parties and think "I just don't get it..I simply don't understand." -
March 27, 2010 at 5:17 PM
Mal Garvin The ultimate betrayal
Sunday, March 21, 2010 | Labels: Radionews |
Source The Age: IN JANUARY last year, Mal Garvin was awarded the Order of Australia for ''service to the community'' and for ''the development of social welfare programs that support and guide young people, and as a broadcaster and author''.
Garvin, well-known in Melbourne a decade ago for his weekly religious radio broadcasts, is an evangelist who founded a youth program called Fusion in the 1960s. It now has branches throughout Australia and overseas.
Just months after receiving the award, the 68-year-old was displaying his medal and boasting about it at the bedside of a young woman who had tried to kill herself, allegedly to escape his sexual advances.
A few months after that, the spiritual leader quietly ''retired'' from the youth and community network he had built, after Fusion Australia's national executive found him guilty of ''inappropriate behaviour'' and ''errors of judgment'' with ''a vulnerable young woman''.
Read the entire article
Garvin, well-known in Melbourne a decade ago for his weekly religious radio broadcasts, is an evangelist who founded a youth program called Fusion in the 1960s. It now has branches throughout Australia and overseas.
Just months after receiving the award, the 68-year-old was displaying his medal and boasting about it at the bedside of a young woman who had tried to kill herself, allegedly to escape his sexual advances.
A few months after that, the spiritual leader quietly ''retired'' from the youth and community network he had built, after Fusion Australia's national executive found him guilty of ''inappropriate behaviour'' and ''errors of judgment'' with ''a vulnerable young woman''.
Read the entire article
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Nigel of Richmond said...-
KBT
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Nothing more sickening than creeps who go around quoting the Bible only to get their rocks off by bullshitting crap to the young and innocent. You have to ask yourself is this the first, I doubt it - you know the old adage you only stop when you get caught. I hope he dies a lonely old man.
One of the hardest things is when people hide behind insecurities rather than owning their own behavior with out lies or misconceptions. I was once a student at Poatina and it was not the most easiest place yet I am now a youth worker. I know the both people and I also have been sexually abused my own father from the age of 2 -12. A lot of what this woman is describing is almost a replica of my abuse. My stomach churned as I read the report. God never bruises a tender reed..only men do and I so wish that I could just close my eyes and not think that this could happen in a place where children are meant to be seen,, valued and respected. Victims in my opinion never truly heal from these experiences we just find ways to make sense of them. but often we can not make sense out of nonsense..so we just come to peace with it.
Mr Garvin I hope you are telling the truth yet I know the victim and she is kind and considerate always caring and aware of the space of others. I look at both parties and think "I just don't get it..I simply don't understand."
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