John Ready: former Gloriavale member criticises 'insincere' apology from leader Howard Temple

A Gloriavale leaver has outlined his 'livid' reaction to yesterday's apology from community leader Howard Temple. 

The Royal Commission of Inquiry requested an apology, after establishing a pattern of abuse.

Temple thanked those who'd reported it - and accepted the Commission's Safety of Care recommendation.

But former member John Ready says the apology was insincere - and shows a complete lack of understanding of the damage caused.

"The timestamp - 1950 to 1999 - leaves out the majority of the abuse from 2000."

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So a Gloria Vale leader made a public apology yesterday
for the historic abuse that happened at Gloria Vale. Overseeing
Shepherd Howard Temple acknowledged that abuse happened in Gloria Vale
between nineteen fifty and nineteen ninety nine. Why did this happen? Well?
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historic Abuse in Care

(00:20):
asked Gloria Vale to apologize to its members back in July.
Here we are in January. They finally got around to it.
John Reddy was expelled from Gloria Vale in twenty seventeen,
and John joins me. Now hoo, John, Hello, Andrew, is
this apology sincere?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I don't believe. So it's pretty clear that it's not
particularly like the time stamp nineteen fifty to nineteen ninety
nine leaves out the majority of the abuse from two
thousand to the present day twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, okay, exactly how well were you there after nineteen
ninety nine?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes? I was twenty one in nineteen ninety nine and
I left on the twenty fourth of December twenty seventeen.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Oh wow, okay, So there's eighteen years and you're saying
there was abuse there, so yeah, yeah, so why was
there a timestamp? Do you know?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I don't know. I was pondering that last night when
I read the apology, which made me relatively livid, to
be fair, just their complete lack of understanding of the
sort of carnage that they've had in people's lives and

(01:51):
left behind them under their leadership and mentorship. And that's
putting it nicely, because it's actually under their troll, like
their complete control.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Always has been. He also says, the glory of our
this is how Temple now says. Gloria Vale provides abuse awareness,
prevention training and a set of a page on its
website to report abuse. Has it and is that enough?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I just think it's completely empty words. They don't believe
or understand the type of abuse that they've done and
the effect that they've had on people's lives, and they
just sort of, I mean, they've been forced to make
an apology. I mean that kind of tells you everything

(02:36):
you need to know about the apology.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Johnny, you're good.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Now, am I good? How do you mean by that?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Well, you know, after your experience and what you've been through,
you know obviously has an impact and you're out and
you were expelled and now you've got a new life.
Are you good?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, I'm much better, that's for real. But there is
a lot of there's a lot to work through, and
it's very difficult to come out of an organization that
you were born into and then at forty years old
to go you know, there's some with this, and then

(03:18):
to come out and then start a process because I
got involved in a court case for one of my
family members immediately to try and get some a justice
for her. And it all started from that date, like
seven years ago, that's when this all started happening.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, mate, you know that we always you're the very
best of luck as a head forward, and thank you
so much for your bravery and talking to us today
as John Ready former Gloria l Man.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
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