Posted on 04/08/2010 8:37:32 AM PDT by jentilla
Roseanne: "The pedo priests are trying to cover up the number of LITTLE GIRLS they have molested too, as if that doesn't matter as much as what happens to boys. Trust me, the number of girls raped and molested by priests is at least double the boys. They are trying to cover it all up so that they can end up purging gay priests, and laying the blame on them. The fact is pedos like to rape both boys and girls, and only a small number of pedos are exclusively into male children.
I am starting to think that any parent who takes their kids to catholic churches from now on should lose custody. Taking your kid where you know sex offenders hang out is inexcusable!!! "
(Excerpt) Read more at noliburls.com ...
The public schools have a 100-fold larger problem than the Catholic church according to a 2004 study:
Forgotten Study: Abuse in School 100 Times Worse than by Priests
By James Tillman and John Jalsevac
WASHINGTON, DC, April 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the last several weeks such a quantity of ink has been spilled in newspapers across the globe about the priestly sex abuse scandals, that a casual reader might be forgiven for thinking that Catholic priests are the worst and most common perpetrators of child sex abuse.
But according to Charol Shakeshaft, the researcher of a little-remembered 2004 study prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, “the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.”
After effectively disappearing from the radar, Shakeshaft’s study is now being revisited by commentators seeking to restore a sense of proportion to the mainstream coverage of the Church scandal.
According to the 2004 study “the most accurate data available at this time” indicates that “nearly 9.6 percent of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.”
“Educator sexual misconduct is woefully under-studied,” writes the researcher. “We have scant data on incidence and even less on descriptions of predators and targets. There are many questions that call for answers.“
In an article published on Monday, renowned Catholic commentator George Weigel referred to the Shakeshaft study, and observed that “The sexual and physical abuse of children and young people is a global plague” in which Catholic priests constitute only a small minority of perpetrators.
While Weigel observes that the findings of Shakeshaft’s study do nothing to mitigate the harm caused by priestly abuse, or excuse the “clericalism” and “fideism” that led bishops to ignore the problem, they do point to a gross imbalance in the level of scrutiny given to it, throwing suspicion on the motives of the news outlets that are pouring their resources into digging up decades-old dirt on the Church.
“The narrative that has been constructed is often less about the protection of the young (for whom the Catholic Church is, by empirical measure, the safest environment for young people in America today) than it is about taking the Church down,” he writes.
Weigel observes that priestly sex abuse is “a phenomenon that spiked between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s but seems to have virtually disappeared,” and that in recent years the Church has gone to great lengths to punish and remove priestly predators and to protect children. The result of these measures is that “six credible cases of clerical sexual abuse in 2009 were reported in the U.S. bishops’ annual audit, in a Church of some 65,000,000 members.”
Despite these facts, however, “the sexual abuse story in the global media is almost entirely a Catholic story, in which the Catholic Church is portrayed as the epicenter of the sexual abuse of the young.”
Outside of the Church, Shakeshaft is not alone in highlighting the largely unaddressed, and unpublicized problem of child sex abuse in schools. Sherryll Kraizer, executive director of the Denver-based Safe Child Program, told the Colorado Gazette in 2008 that school employees commonly ignore laws meant to prevent the sexual abuse of children.
“I see it regularly,” Kraizer said. “There are laws against failing to report, but the law is almost never enforced. Almost never.”
“What typically happens is you’ll have a teacher who’s spending a little too much time in a room with one child with the door shut,” Kraizer explained. “Another teacher sees it and reports it to the principal. The principal calls the suspected teacher in and says ‘Don’t do that,’ instead of contacting child protective services.”
“Before you know it, the teacher is driving the student home. A whole series of events will unfold, known to other teachers and the principal, and nobody contacts child services before it’s out of control. You see this documented in records after it eventually ends up in court.”
In an editorial last week, The Gazette revisited the testimony of Kraizer in the context of the Church abuse scandal coverage, concluding that “the much larger crisis remains in our public schools today, where children are raped and groped every day in the United States.”
“The media and others must maintain their watchful eye on the Catholic Church and other religious institutions,” wrote The Gazette, “But it’s no less tragic when a child gets abused at school.”
In 2004, shortly after the Shakeshaft study was released, Catholic League President William Donohue, who was unavailable for an interview for this story, asked, “Where is the media in all this?”
“Isn’t it news that the number of public school students who have been abused by a school employee is more than 100 times greater than the number of minors who have been abused by priests?” he asked.
“All those reporters, columnists, talking heads, attorneys general, D.A.’s, psychologists and victims groups who were so quick on the draw to get priests have a moral obligation to pursue this issue to the max. If they don’t, they’re a fraud.”
URL: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10040101.html
What a moron.
Surprisingly she didn’t stand with the others in Hollywood defending Roman Polanski.
http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/2009/09/polanski_to_jail_for_at_least.php
Ahhh, Roseanne Barr, the wannabe Catholic flour girl!
I take it that she never let her kids be around any Hollywood types (Roman Polanski for one).
The UN is full of sex scandals against the young people of the world. Whether it is UN ambassadors raping kids in America and then fleeing justice or UN "peacekeepers" and bureaucrats raping, and selling poor children in sexual slavery.
No, this is motivated by a hatred of the Catholic Church. That the Church also helped defeat Communism in Easter Europe just rubs more salt in the Left's wounds.
The most probable pedophiles in order are:
Fathers
Teachers
Coaches
Protestant ministers
Priests are way down on the list.
So if a father is a teacher of mid-high history, coaches the girl’s basketball team and is a youth minister at his church on weekends/Sundays — watch out! He would be much more prone to pedophilia that any priest.
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Sexual Abuse of Children by Protestant Ministers
Report: Protestant Church Insurers Handle 260 Sex Abuse Cases a Year
Abuse by Protestant Ministers of Every Denomination
Child Sexual Molestation by Various Protestant Clergy
"Yeshiva" of Brooklyn also Guilty of Child Abuse
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Teachers and Pedophilia - In YOUR Backyard
Washington Post -- D.C. school officials reported 220 abuse allegations against teachers
Sex Abuse by Teachers Said Worse Than Catholic Church
WHEN BOYS ARE MOLESTED BY TEACHERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY
Forgotten Study: Abuse in School 100 Times Worse than by Priests
Rosanne... you’re that pig from the ‘80s, right? Don’t you have a hole to crawl back into?
With all of the attention focused on Roman Polanski, no one every asks who the Hollywood figures were who provided a young Drew Barrymoore and the Coreys (Haim and Feldman) with cocaine and took Drew’s virginity.
These kids went to adult Hollywood parties.
Lots of used up souls left for the gutter in Hollywood. The movers and shakers always know there is new blood coming to town to try a stake in the game.
Ever notice how the media never mention that virtually ALL the molestations are by HOMOSEXUAL pedophiles? Once again the gays get a pass, just like they did for spreading AIDS throughout our society.
Aw Sal come on,
I didn’t ping you in a friendly way for you to do that.
Can we please stop with the “we don’t molest children as much as other groups” argument? It is really in poor taste and does not help your cause.
This women’s evil is obvious without bringing in a comparative argument.
Really FRiend, just me being straight with you, it isn’t good...
{Facepalm}
To leftists, ideology trumps morality. NEA pedophiles good...Catholic Church pedophiles bad.
It's about the Catholic Church's opposition to homosexuality and abortion. Plain and simple.
I agree.
She's got those too???...who knew...
Note to Ms Barr, don't hang out around the impeached former president clinton.
For some strange reason she seems to ignore the fact that VERY FEW FEMALES have come forward to accuse priests of molesting or raping them.
Its the availability of little boys that gets the homosexual male excited...just like little boy scouts and the prospect of camping overnights does.
Or teaching.
Or any place where little boys congregate.
It is the buffet idea that is so appealing to so many predatory homosexuals males...pedophiles usually go for whatever sex meets their sexual persuasion.
well, she did
I hear bulimics use it to purge rather than their own fingers.
Kudos to Tom Arnold. If he didn’t suffer from ED when he saw her naked then he is a man to congratulate. That voice, that attitude and that body would effect me more than standing in a polar sea. Heck, I would look like I had two navels, both innies!!!!
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