[sten]

4500 priests over a 52 year span? Is that it? about 86 a year... now, compare that to the number of teachers (or school related personnel) that are molesting children and you will find the ratio is about 8:1 compared to priests.

Why doesn't that make the nightly news? Oh yea... because teachers and the media share the same poltical views...

[johnk]

That report, and the greatly deflated numbers, are from the Catholic Church's investigation into the problem.

How about a true study of the magnitude of the problem.

BTW: Teachers are not preachers, you cannot ask them to behave like Christians. That is why my kids go to a private Christian School.

I have to answer to God someday for putting them into hands of Godly people, not the sodomites that run the public schools today.

[NJ_gent]

"compare that to the number of teachers (or school related personnel) that are molesting children and you will find the ratio is about 8:1 compared to priests."

Where does that 8:1 figure (citing roughly 234,000 "teachers or school related personnel" over a 52 year span) come from? Which study or statistic shows that to be the case? What was the methodology involved in putting together such a figure?