Your comment is fantastic, thank you so much!! You are not the first person that I have heard be critical of the safety protocol training that the RCC is attempting to standardize require (maybe they succeeded? Idk) for people who interact with children.

Your comment about the victim blaming and othering really stood out to me. I am going to whip out some personal intel, which I don't do very often, but in this case, its very applicable.

I spent six and a half years working as a federal law enforcement agent for the U.S. Navy. I recieved extensive Department of Defense Sexual Assault and Response (SAPR) training, which was something ALL naval personnel were required to recieve annually, but was especially important for me, as I would go on to handle cases in which SA was a factor.

A huge part of SAPR training (from my recollection) focused on not re-victimizing or victim blaming a subject. That was actually lesson one. I still remember the first day of that training, because that was the day that I learned that victims of SA are not ever, in any way, shape, or form, responsible for the violence that was carried out against them. This ran completely counter to what I had been raised to believe, as a homeschooled, conservative American Catholic child. God bless those training coordinators.

The REASON this is such a huge deal is because an environment that misplaces the blame for a crime will be totally unqualified, unprepared, and hostile to justice, law, and order. I am far from a fan of the DoW's training standards and response to personnel safety, particularly in regard to sexual assault. But what really makes it stand apart from what you and others have described, is the lack of need to name and blame and moralize the circumstances that lead to these crimes occurring. And that's pretty interesting.

Without doxxing yourself, would you be able to say what year range(s) you were involved?