Dear Scott
New questions arise about CCF - both
online (my blog) and in private emails to me. Many focus on James Mc Cabe and
CCF’s Child Protection Unit.
Let’s start with your declaration
that the CPU has a 100% conviction rate. Given that global research shows a
conviction rate of between 10-30%, this is nothing short of miraculous.
A simple ‘google’ search will reveal
plenty of statistics relating to sex offence conviction rates worldwide. On May
16th this year, for instance, Maeve McClenaghan, reporting in the UK
wrote,
“Campaigners have expressed alarm over new statistics
produced by the Ministry of Justice which show a dramatic drop in the
conviction rate for sexual offenses in the past years, from 61% in 2012 to just
55% in 2013.
Are child protection units from the
UK (indeed, all around the world) knocking at CCF’s door asking what the secret
of the success of your Child Protection Unit is?
That the CPU is run by
ex-Australian policemen (James McCabe and Alan Lemon) who have no prior
experience in child protection (a specialist field) raises serious questions
about the veracity of the 100% conviction rate claim.
“Are local police and judges being paid to obtain
successful convictions?”
If so:
“Will innocent men (and women) wind up in jail in order
for the this success rate to be maintained?”
I don’t wish to belabor the point
that James McCabe is not just a former policeman but a corrupt one, jailed for
drug offenses in Australia, but questions such as the following arise:
“Is John Geden (an Inspector with the British Police) and
a member of the Cambodian Children’s
Fund UK Board, aware that a disgraced policeman is running the Child Protection
Unit?”
“Does Inspector Geden believe the touted 100% success rate
to be accurate?
“Is CEOPS (the
British child abuse online police team) aware that UK police are working with a
convicted criminal (Mc Cabe) to secure a 100% conviction success rate?”
“Does CEOPS endorse the accuracy of this claimed success
rate?”
Whilst on the subject of yours and
CCF’s relationship with police:
“Would you care to identify the senior Cambodian policeman
with whom you have acquired $1 million worth of Cambodian real estate whilst
insisting that you ‘own nothing’?”
best wishes
James Ricketson
PS An anonymous blog entry accuses me
of spreading unsubstantiated rumours about your salary and the amount you pay
your teachers. Could you let us know how much a month you earn in 2014 and how
much a month you pay CCF teachers in 2014. Any errors on my part, exacerbated
by your refusal to answer questions, I will happily correct.
I have been a supporter of CCF for years but am beginning to wonder if my support is warranted. Please, Mr Neeson, answer the questions that are being asked of you by Mr Ricketson and, as I understand it, by other journalists also. I don't understand why you remain silent?
ReplyDeleteMr Ricketson, you are nothing but a trouble maker. Of course CEOPS knows all about McCabe's past and, as decent cops, they know that once someone has paid their debt to society they should be allowed to get on with their lives and not have their past dragged up by idiots such as you. Whatever Mc Cabe might have done he has paid his debt and as an experienced policeman has a lot to offer the Cambodian police in terms of how to catch scum that pray on children. Instead of criticising the Child Protection Unit for having a 100% success rate you should be praising it but you dont because all you want to do is cause trouble.
ReplyDeleteI dont care in Scott Neeson earns $10,000 a month or $7,000 a month. It doesn't matter. If he is doing a good job he deserves to be well paid. I dont care if he has $1 million in real estate as long as he bought it with his own money and not with CCF money. I am curious about the $1 million in shares bit it is a bit of a red herring.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I do have some questions I want answers. I have been a sponsor of CCF kids and need a few figures so I can do some sums
(1) How many sponsors are paying $140 a month to support kids at CCF?
(2) How many kids are being supported by sponsorships?
I want to be able to multiply the number of kids by the number of sponsors and arrive at a figure.
On top of this figure I want to know how much in straight our donations are made to CCF each year to help kids and their families.
Add these figures together and it should be possible to know how much money is being specifically directed towards kids and their families.
This is all just to create a context for the questions I really want to ask Scott:
(A) Has CCF used any of the money that has been donated to help kids and their families to buy land?
(B) On the land that CCF owns, does CCF charge the families of kids who live in a CCF institution rent?
(C) What happens to the families of children staying in a CCF institution and renting a home from CCF if they cannot afford to keep up with their rent?
When I sponsor a child I want to know if the money I am giving goes to buy land which is then rented back to the poor families whose kids have been taken into care in a CCF home?
If you cannot answer these questions, Mr Neeson, you have lost me as a sponsor.
Am I reading this right? CCF gets money from sponsor to support one kid. $140 a month if I remember correctly. The kid gets to share a room with between 10 and 20 other kids, if I remember correctly. part of the sponsors money goes to buy land, if I am understanding correctly. On the land houses are built with sponsor and donor money. The parents of the kid who is earning CCF $140 a month in sponsorship then get to rent the home paid for by sponsors and donors. Rather than helping the parents of the kid who is earning CCF $140 a month, CCF is making money out of renting houses to the kid's mum and dad! Unless I am missing something here, this seems like a scam to me. How much money is CCF making from these rentals?
DeleteIf CCF is in fact renting houses to the parents of kids resident in one of CCF's residences, a few questions arise.
DeleteI think it fair to presume, if the parents are paying rent, that they have jobs of one kind or another.
Question # 1
"How many of the parents of kids resident with CCF are still working in the dump?
Question # 2
Regardless of where the parents are working, how much are they earning in their jobs?
I think it fair to presume that the parents working in the dump and elsewhere are not earning sufficient to be able to properly feed and clothe their kids - hence their accepting help from CCF.
Having had a lot to do with men and women working in the dump (both in the past and as recently as this week) I know how much they earn - between $500 and $1000 a year. And we all know that most incomes rarely exceed $1,500 a year.
So, take a kid sponsored to the tune of $140 a month. That's close to $1,700 a year that CCF earns per kid - more than the parents earn in a year working in the dump; more than the basic wage of someone working in a garment factory.
Leaving aside the question of how many kids CCF stacks into one room, imagine how this $1,700 a year could be spent to help the entire family. Imagine if the parents renting houses from CCF were, instead, not just provided with free housing (paid for already by sponsors) but provided with interest free loans of up to $1000 in order to set up small businesses, buy land (if they have lost it) or pursue whatever skill they have to become self-sufficient?
If CCF really is renting homes to the parents of kids in CCF how can he declare that he is helping whole families - unless, of course, the rent in question is token?
How much rent do you charge CCF children's parents, Scott?
$15 a month is what CCF charges to rent a tin hovel to the family of a kid living in s CCF dormitory with 10- - 20 other kids. If the parents can't afford to pay the rent they are evicted. Ask around Steung Meanchey. It is common knowledge.
DeleteNeeson and CCF are not accountable to anyone. They can do what they like and no one cares. Neeson has so many cops in his pocket that no-one in Cambodia dares to say a thing. The Global Development Group is making mega bucks out of the money it raises and gives to to CCF while everyone who gives money to CCF is kept in the dark by Nesson's clever marketing of himself. Like Somaly Mam he will crash and burn when the truth comes out.
ReplyDeleteGDG Global Development Group is an Australian is another grubby firm making millions charging 9% commission on charity money transfers from Australia to Cambodia and in bed with CCF
ReplyDeleteJim McCabe is rotten to the core demanding kickback commissions from CCFsuppliers and contractors, maybe its the last cash crab before their kiddy empire comes crashing down. PM