The Survival of Abuse with Resilience (SOAD) Service of the St Jeanne Antide Foundation has said that giving airtime or legitimacy to people convicted of sexual offences against children represents revictimisation.

Recently, TVM  presenter Ricky Caruana, on his private podcast, had Justin Haber as a guest. The Court of Appeal recently dismissed an appeal by Justin Haber, confirming his conviction for sexually harassing a teenage employee and ruling that the original punishment was fully justified given the seriousness of the offence.

SOAR, in a statement, said that "what is currently unfolding in Malta is not merely offensive, it is dangerous. When influential platforms - the media, institutional or state-adjacent - give airtime or legitimacy to people convicted of sexual offences against children, it does not represent neutrality, freedom of expression, or responsible rehabilitation. It represents revictimisation. It sends a message that power can outlive accountability, that influence can override safeguarding, and critically, that children's suffering is negotiable."

"It normalises grooming, sanitises abuse and alienates survivors. It sends the message to vulnerable children that their pain may one day be eclipsed by someone else's platform. We reject this entirely."

Abuse or grooming by those in positions of power is never acceptable or excusable, SOAR said.

Sexual violence against children is never a "mistake," a "learning experience," or a narrative to be publicly rehabilitated without survivor-centred safeguards, it said.

"We are advocating for the protection of lives. If this moment is ignored, excused, or minimised, then the institutions involved do not represent survivors, nor the safeguarding values they claim to uphold. We write today not as spectators but as survivors of domestic abuse, sexual abuse and violence. We survived, but many did not."

"We speak in their absence and in honour of their lives. We speak in the name of children whose childhoods were stolen, women and men who survived violence in silence, frontline professionals who have spent decades safeguarding lives, and survivors who rebuilt themselves so others would not have to endure what they did."

"For over a decade, survivor-led initiatives such as SOAR have been supported by institutions, professionals, and communities who believed in protection, accountability, and healing," SOAR said.

"We will not allow a single decision, platform, or person to undo years of safeguarding work carried out in this country. We will not allow Malta's moral compass to be bent by influence. This is an emergency call to state ministries, regulatory and safeguarding bodies, the Church and faith institutions, NGOs and civil society organisations, schools and educational entities, the media and private companies, and everyone who has ever supported survivor-led safeguarding work. Speak up. Silence is not neutrality; it is alignment. We survived so that this line would be drawn. It is drawn now."

SOAR said that its statement is not written in reactive anger, "but from lived experience. It reflects the voices of survivors of domestic abuse, sexual abuse, and violence, as well as frontline professionals who have spent decades safeguarding children and vulnerable individuals."