On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:02:03PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote: > Lets look at the number of 100k abused children. A boy has about a > 1 in 6 chance of experiencing sexual abuse; a girl about 1 in 4 to 1 > in 5. Assuming that we are just talking about abuse of boys, with > Catholics about 25% of the population of the US, and boys during that > time period now being males from 6-50, we have about 90 million or > so males, about 22.5 million catholic males, and about 3.75 million > who were sexually abused. This means that his number, taken at face > value, indicates that about 2.6% of sexual abuse of Catholic boys is > by priests.
That is a amazingly UNilluminating way of looking at it. Do you know what the percentages are for children being sexually abused by someone who is NOT a member of the child's household? If I were a parent, I would make damn sure no one in my household was abusing my children. Then the question becomes, how much does the probability of sexual abuse go up by exposing my child to a Catholic priest? Another illuminating comparison would be the abuse rates by public school teachers vs. Catholic priests. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
