Posted on 05/27/2002 6:43:12 PM PDT by LO_IQ
Dr. Bethea-Jackson :
I don’t think 18 or 20 years ago, we knew much of anything about pedophiles. It wasn’t really looked at as a criminal matter. We didn’t publicize it as being an act that needed criminal intervention, so to speak. We didn’t look at it… or it wasn’t … people didn’t have the body of knowledge 18 or 20 years ago to say that this is something that will harm your child emotionally, if you don’t address it.
Parents didn’t know that seriousness, 18 or 20 years ago, and the long-term effects. And as people document the work that they’ve done, some successes and their failures, that some of that early work did not get to the public. I mean, it was in some New England journal somewhere. But it was in the process of being looked at and studied. That information was not released.
We weren’t taught that in school. I went to one of the most prestigious social-work schools, at that time, in the country and in all of my studying, we didn’t have a course in child abuse.
Apparently, the long-time brutal critic of the Roman Catholic Church, the Watchtower or Jehovah's Witnesses sect, has the same pedophile problem, if not worse, with its clergy (elders, ministerial servants, circuit overseers, etc)
If you would like to know more about this, go to www.silentlambs.org
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