Bishops and other leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania covered up child sexual abuse by more than 300 priests over a period of 70 years, persuading victims not to report the abuse and law enforcement not to investigate it, according to a searing report issued by a grand jury on Tuesday.
The report, which covered six of the state’s eight Catholic dioceses and found more than 1,000 identifiable victims, is the broadest examination yet by a government agency in the United States of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The report said there are likely thousands more victims whose records were lost or who were too afraid to come forward.
It catalogs horrific instances of abuse: a priest who raped a young girl in the hospital after she had her tonsils out; a victim tied up and whipped with leather straps by a priest; and another priest who was allowed to stay in ministry after impregnating a young girl and arranging for her to have an abortion.
The sexual abuse scandal has shaken the Catholic Church for more than 15 years, ever since explosive allegations emerged out of Boston in 2002. But even after paying billions of dollars in settlements and adding new prevention programs, the church has been dogged by a scandal that is now reaching its highest ranks. The Pennsylvania report comes soon after the resignation of Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, who is accused of sexually abusing young priests and seminarians, as well as minors.
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Why do Catholics molest children so often?
#1: misterwhite To: A K A Stone (#0)
Over the same period, how many children were abused by teachers?
"Researcher Charol Shakeshaft found that nearly 10 percent of U.S. public school students have been “targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.” The statistics put the number of children abused by school teachers in the hundreds of thousands."
"Shakeshaft told Education Week in 2004 that the figures suggest that "the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.”
So your question should be, "Why do
Catholicsteachers molest children so often?misterwhite posted on 2018-12-02 11:03:42 Reply Private Reply
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A K A Stone posted on 2018-12-02 11:37:36 Reply Private Reply
#3: misterwhite To: A K A Stone (#2)
So ignore the group that's 100X worse because you want to focus on those who say they're from God.
Sounds to me more like a vendetta than trying to solve the problem for the majority of children.
misterwhite posted on 2018-12-02 12:58:08 Reply Private Reply
#4: A K A Stone To: misterwhite (#3)
The school teacher ones aren't molesting little kids. They are teachers and teenagers. Big difference.
100 times worse is bullshit.
One also involves a perversion (faggots).
A K A Stone posted on 2018-12-02 14:21:48 Reply Private Reply
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https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-now/catholic-boys-school-settles- 5-sex-abuse-suits-former-teacher-admits-he-had-sex-with-50-boys/465- f8b450f7-679d-4b71-af83-298560141eb1
A K A Stone posted on 2018-12-02 14:24:57 Reply Private Reply
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Vicomte13 posted on 2018-12-02 15:08:45 Reply Private Reply
#7: misterwhite To: A K A Stone (#4)
I didn't write the definition of "child sexual abuse". I'm not the one who expanded the definition to include all ages from infants to 17-year-olds and abuse as anything from touching to rape.
Meaning all these molested children fall into one category and my statistic on teachers is just as valid as yours on priests.
Now, if you want to break this down into pedophilia and ephebophilia, fine. But where are your statistics on that? The article certainly didn't break them down because the author doesn't care. The bigger the number the better.
misterwhite posted on 2018-12-02 17:51:33 Reply Private Reply
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Satan.
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