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.
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.
[–] ruck_feddit 0 points 1 point 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.