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Originally Posted by jammies
I don't know about the 1.5-4% number, though, it seems pretty high. That seems to assume that the vast majority of such priests go undetected, as despite the publicized cases, nowhere near that number have actually been accused or convicted. I would guess that the current and long-running social hysteria about "pedophiles" informed the methodology behind those numbers, and that 10% of that number is more like reality.
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Not so sure jammies...there are a lot of sites out there like
SNAP that might suggest otherwise.
ABUSE TRACKER
Regardless...you could be absolutely correct. If its 1% it is still abhorent that men of the cloth who are supposed to espouse the doctrine of complete love and trust, use this position to act as predators.
I feel the same way about teachers or other groups who we are supposed to trust in the same way.
The Church still tries to bend it away from Paedophilia by suggesting this in the article...
The statement said that rather than paedophilia, it would "be more correct" to speak of ephebophilia, a homosexual attraction to adolescent males.
"Of all priests involved in the abuses, 80 to 90% belong to this sexual orientation minority which is sexually engaged with adolescent boys between the ages of 11 and 17."
Of course this makes it ok.