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[–] ruck_feddit 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Ever heard of google?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/16/AR2010041602026.html

Sexual abuse of minors is not the province of the Catholic Church alone. About 4 percent of priests committed an act of sexual abuse on a minor between 1950 and 2002, according to a study being conducted by John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. That is roughly consistent with data on many similar professions.

An extensive 2007 investigation by the Associated Press showed that sexual abuse of children in U.S. schools was "widespread," and most of it was never reported or punished. And in Portland, Ore., last week, a jury reached a $1.4 million verdict against the Boy Scouts of America in a trial that showed that since the 1920s, Scouts officials kept "perversion files" on suspected abusers but kept them secret.

"We don't see the Catholic Church as a hotbed of this or a place that has a bigger problem than anyone else," Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, told Newsweek. "I can tell you without hesitation that we have seen cases in many religious settings, from traveling evangelists to mainstream ministers to rabbis and others."

The catholic church keeps great records... maybe 2000 years worth. Many of the records involving these crimes were voluntarily handed over to law enforcement. Some were by subpoena. Do a little research before acting like a clown.

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[–] ruck_feddit 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Consult google. Looks like the Church has been cleaning house for years. The public school system is a much greater abuser.

https://www.osv.com/OSVNewsweekly/ByIssue/Article/TabId/735/ArtMID/13636/ArticleID/10563/Why-the-Catholic-Church-is-an-easy-target-for-litigation.aspx

Professor Charol Shakeshaft of Hofstra University, among others, argues that up to 15 percent of all public-school students nationally are the victims of sexual misconduct by a staff member, ranging from kissing to sexual intercourse, by the time they finish high school.

Even conservatively, that number involves hundreds of thousands of public-school students. The evidence also suggests that from 1 percent to 5 percent of the teaching profession and up to 25 percent of all public-school districts have problems of sexual abuse.

All of this sounds depressingly familiar from stories about past sex abuse in the Catholic Church, right down to an alleged pattern of what one angry public-school parent described as "passing the trash" -- that is, moving around abusive public-school teachers from job to job.

http://www.americanexperiment.org/publications/commentaries/clergy-sex-abuse-is-serious-but-the-church-is-also-a-target

There is “no credible evidence” that Catholic clergy abuse young people any more often than do clergy of any other denomination or members of secular professions who deal with children, according to Philip Jenkins of Baylor University, a national authority on clergy sexual abuse.

When weighing children’s safety, however, it’s important to note that more than 80 percent of incidents took place between 1965 and 1985, and fully 94 percent before 1990.