[WaterBoard]

Clergy sex allegations soar in the US: study

Apr 11, 2011

WASHINGTON — Allegations of sexual abuse involving the Roman Catholic clergy in the United States rose sharply last year to nearly 700 from around 400 in 2009, according to a church report Monday.

The vast majority of the allegations, 653, involved alleged abuse that occurred decades ago but whose "victims/survivors are just now finding the courage to report" them, the study said.

Thirty accusations were made by current minors, but only eight were deemed credible, said the US church's annual report on implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

The number of victims was up sharply from 2009, when there were some 400 new allegations of clergy sex abuse in the United States.

Payouts were also up, rising from $104 million in 2009 to around $124 million last year.

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[bronxville]

From the article:- “The news story by the Associated Press speaks of priests who “rape and molest children,” referring to them as “pedophile priests.” It is factually wrong: few were raped, most were not children, and pedophilia is not the problem.”

You wrote:- “Wow, that is an absolute lie and easily disprovable by the Church’s own reports. This just re-victimizes the children over again to say they were not ‘raped’ by priests. Is the Catholic League now saying that children can chose who they sleep with since its not considered ‘rape’ by them?”

Why did you write as if these ACCUSATIONS were actually real stats?

Why are you so determined not to post the link from #8?

Now, I’m sure you have stats from other denominations, right? Can you link us to them?

[bronxville]

“Clergy sex allegations soar in the US: study

Apr 11, 2011

WASHINGTON — Allegations of sexual abuse involving the Roman Catholic clergy in the United States rose sharply last year to nearly 700 from around 400 in 2009, according to a church report Monday....”

ALLEGATIONS! Oh, for heaven’s sake give it up already and stop being a watercarrier for the state-run media aka the AFP in this case!

[Salvation]

It’s also obvious that you have no idea about the staunch requirements set by the Vatican now for entering a seminary. Multitudes of tests, psyche analysis for TWO, yes two days! Character references galore.

In person interviews by the seminary that last into the hours. There are mothers and fathers of new seminarians on FreeRepublic whocan vouch for my rigorous facts.

Sorry, but you are wrong and uninformed, or so it seems, again...And again....and again...there are more Protestant ministers abusing children than there ever were priests abusing children,,,,,,,,,,,,,yet you do not even look into that fact.