[quote]Makavali wrote:
Pedophile cult apologists unite!
Never mind the fact that a lot of the children in question were prepubescent when they were molested.
The Catholic Church should adopt a new motto: No child’s behind left.[/quote]
Oh, hai guyz, another bigoted, fact ignorant religion bashing thread! In T-Nation PWI? Who’da thunk it?
Looking for a bona fide ‘pedophile cult’? Just try out your public schools-- they’re rife with them. In fact, abuse rates in public schools are about 100x greater than ‘the clergy’.
Where are all the ‘Government Public School Pedophile Bashing’ threads?
Oh, look, it turns out that the media reports grossly overstate: 1) who is largely responsible for sexual abuse, 2) the ratio of stories/reports of ‘clergy’ abuse vs. other professions, 3) the ‘Catholic’ portion of the small subset listed in #2.
Hey, but don’t let the US Govt’s own numbers get in the way of your ignorance and overt religious bigotry.
[i]They highlight a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report Child Maltreatment 2006, which shows that about 66 percent of sexual abuse perpetrators are parents, other relatives, unmarried partners of parents, friends or neighbors. Only 0.5 percent are classed as professionals, among whom clergy are a subset.
Neither Child Maltreatment 2006 nor any other study identifies clergy (much less Catholic priests) as a statistically significant class of perpetrators. Statistically insignificant and taken from years and decades past, cases of abuse involving Catholic clergy�¢ though profoundly troubling�¢ are nonetheless few compared to the cases involving, for example, public-school teachers, the Nussbaums argued.
In both actual numbers and percentages, sexual abuse of children by teachers, coaches, and employees in public schools exceeds anything that occurred in Catholic institutions, they continued, claiming that sexual abuse of children in public schools is still occurring in significant numbers, in contrast to Catholic institutions.
According to the Nussbaums, expert Prof. Carol Shakeshaft told Education Week magazine "The physical sexual abuse of students in [public] schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.
The Catholic bishops 2007 Annual Report on sexual abuse, based on an outside audit, found fifteen allegations of childhood sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in the U.S. from 2000 to 2007, an average rate of less than two per year. However, a 2007 Associated Press investigation indentified 2,570 public school teachers in the period 2001 to 2005 who had their teaching licenses taken away, denied, surrendered voluntarily, or restricted as a result of sexual conduct with minors.