Marie Collins Case Summary

CASE STUDY
Marie Collins quits Vatican Commission
The article involves a case study of Marie Collins who was subjected to sexual abuse by a priest from Ireland at the age of 13 years. There has been undergoing through a lot of frustrations since she was young whenever she encounters a priest has sexually molested any minor wh0o. As a plan to take action against all the priests who are found guilty of sexually abusing a minor, Catholic Church in Rome decided to form a commission that will be investigating such matters and reporting to the Pope Francis in order necessary measures to be taken against the priest involved. This committee was set in 2014, and it included two victims of sexual abuse by the priests, one of them being Marie Collins.
The case study involved critics concerning the way commission implements decisions concerning the priests who were found guilty of sexual abuse by Marie Collins. As one of the members of the commission, she was not pleased by the decisions that were made by the fellow members concerning all the cases presented to them by the victims. The commission involved Marie Collins and Peter Saunders who represented all the victims of sexual abuse. Unfortunately, Peter Saunders was
suspended from the Commission after accusing the panel that it had utterly failed to perform concerning all the cases presented. After her colleague had been suspended, Ms. Collins was left in a dilemma concerning the negligence and reluctance to implement proper measures by the Commission. She decided to resign from the commission and so as to maintain her integrity.
According to her, the commissions was faced by a lot of barriers that could not make it efficient concerning the implementation of the set rules and accessing any cooperation from different departments within Vatican.
The commission had no enough resources that could enable it to carry out the recommended duties effectively. She felt that her integrity was compromised because some of the departments in Vatican failed to agree with the recommendations that all the people complaining about the clerical abuse should be addressed. According to her, she felt so guilty after seeing the level of neglect and reluctance by the commission in Vatican concerning the issue of solving the grievances raised by the victims who have been molested by Catholic
Priests.
In all the three years she served as a commission member, Ms. Collins had never had a chance to meet with the pope so as to address her feeling concerning the state of the commission and the policies put in the system to determine the fate of sexual abuse perpetrators among the minors. According to her, she would have urged the pope to mandate the commission the power to effect its recommendations, increasing its financing and helping in the hiring of the external experts. A report by a known catholic movement whose primary objective is to support the victims of sexual assault showed how its members were annoyed by the resignation of Ms. Collins who was the only victim of sexual abuse left in the commission. They believed that she was capable of representing the grievances of the minors and preventing then against being molested by priests.
The case of Marie Collins is an excellent example of human growth and development because she was subjected to sexual abuse at a very tender age and grew up with a lot of frustrations and trauma. Once she was chosen as one of the commission members, she fully fought for the rights of the minors, and when she realized that things were not working the way they ought to be, she decided to quit. The action of Ms. Collins teaches me how one should be loyal to the responsibilities mandated and display a high level of transparency and correctness where possible.