the Leadership of the Liberal Alliance Youth (LAU) has, in eight months, known to charges of abusive incidents within the organization.
Policy – 23. feb. 2019 – at. 14:55 After shock-detection: the President of ungdomsparti the wreck
It writes the Information Monday on the basis of a report from LAU’s executive committee.
At a meeting in LAU’s executive committee 23. June 2018 discussed the nine members of the management charges of at least one assault and several violations against minors in the organization committed by the same man.
Yet that member has not been expelled and have left her such a job now. The management is also not gone to the police.
Saturday seven girls anonymously out with the witness of sexual violence or violations against them perpetrated by several men in LAU. The case is being investigated now by the Copenhagen Police.
For Information explained to the now former national president of the LAU, Carl Andersen, management only knew of one case and not multiple cases.
However, the minutes from the meeting show that there were discussed several allegations of violations committed by the same person.
Carl Andersen was not re-elected as president for the organization’s national convention Saturday.
The new president was Signe Bøgevald Hansen. She was like the Andersen to present during the meeting in June.
– overall, we have not handled it well enough. I’m sorry, and so it is very important that we have now done the right thing going forward, she says.
that man has no comments.
In the minutes of the meeting 23. June says, among other things, that a member of the management team have been approached by a minor girl, who is a “been drunk during the” and then offered to sleep with the man.
Here he should have “exploited the situation (had sex or exploitation), because she has been so full. She is physically and mentally affected by it, and it is something a la a rape, cf. the syndromes she has,” in the minutes.
Following discussions about the man’s behavior, where it appears that Carl Andersen has received several inquiries regarding the man, contracts the executive committee, to Andersen for a chat with that man.
All agree, that he should not be expelled.
Andersen explained in Information on Saturday, that it was difficult to proceed with the case, when they invited the girl to politianmelde, but she didn’t want to do it.
According to the girl she’s not been invited to go to the police.
the Current president Signe Bøgevald Hansen says she did not went to the police because of a desire from the injured girl.
The only one of those present at the meeting, as have annotated the record over for the Information, Carl Andersen.
He believes that the content of the minutes could easily be misunderstood, and that meeting minutes are far from thorough.
– It is very difficult to take direct quotes from a summary of the meeting and get something meaningful out of them, he says.
