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From: Aletha Blayse
Date: Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:57 PM
Subject: Settlement of Lewis Blayse Matter (OR: An Opportunity for the Salvation Army and a New Beginning)
To: “peterfarthing2 .”
Dear Mr. Farthing,
Thank you for your repeated offer at the Royal Commission hearings to meet with me to discuss my complaint with the Salvation Army in relation to its treatment of my father and his family.
While I am concerned about your continued refusal to have a member of the media present at a meeting, I have thought of a way to protect my interests and avoid the problems I am concerned about by conducting our ‘discussions’ via email.
Accordingly, I now state for you what the Salvation Army needs to do in order to settle the matter of compensation to my father’s family in a way that will satisfy me, my family, and other people with an interest in our matter that your organisation has indeed turned over a new leaf in relation to how it treats victims of the Salvation Army and their families.
I have calculated a sum of $600,000 as being suitable to achieve, to a reasonable degree, the objectives I have set out in my petition and elsewhere and the principles I have enunciated for what compensation payments should look like. Needless to say, this is quite different from your ‘Matrix’ system, which is deeply flawed in its failure to examine the actual effects of abuse on individuals and their families and compensate for them. As you know, since you were provided with the documentation from a world expert on PTSD many years ago, my father was totally and permanently disabled. There is nothing in the ‘Matrix’ to account for such situations. Accordingly, it cannot be regarded as an appropriate way to calculate compensation sums.
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