nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
Seriously Nomad, please fuck off. Im not making excuses for anyone. This thread was discussing why there was such a high incidence of child abuse amongst Catholic priests, I was simply addressing the core of that question - so it is an issue.
It is true that in certain parts of the US the % rate is much higher btw. But all those figures are from memory so please feel free to do some research yourself. BTW the Ryan report covered all types of abuse - not just sexual. Id also like to point out that (as has been hinted at above), about 90% of sexual abuse is committed by members of the family or close acquantancies - not professionals.
None of this excuses anything the church and state did to cover up the crimes, thats implicit in my last post. If I had my way the Irish Catholic church would be stripped of its assets and all of those complicit in the abuse would be rooted out and prosecuted, that includes priests, bishops, judges, doctors and politicians.
We need a de-nazification programme for the RC church and its abetters in child absue.
Seriously, Droid, suck my dick.
"90% of sexual abuse is committed by members of the family or close acquantancies - not professionals."
This statistic makes no sense. "Family members" are often "professionals". There's a lot of overlap there. Unless you mean that people are more often abused by family members, which is probably true-- they have better access.
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