-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors
Sex Abuse by Clerics—a Crisis of Many Faiths - Clerics: While sexual misconduct has rocked many religions, leaders of some have acted far more quickly than others by Teresa Watanabe, Times Staff Writer - 3/25/02 "The wave of clergy sex scandals now engulfing the Roman Catholic Church has battered other denominations as well, producing an uneven record of response that ranges from the Episcopal Church's aggressive and detailed policies to the Southern Baptist Convention's widespread lack of written standards. In the last decade, clergy sexual misconduct has been exposed in virtually every faith tradition. National studies have shown no differences in its frequency by denomination, region, theology or institutional structure....as recently as January, church officials in Boston were accused of having routinely assigned as many as 80 priests suspected of molesting minors to different churches. It was the Boston cases that sparked the current national furor over priestly sexual abuse. In faith after faith, the problem of clergy misconduct was exposed during the past 10 to 15 years because victims began stepping forward, plaintiffs began winning large awards and insurers began demanding policies to prevent abuse. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-032502punish.story Cloak of Silence Covered Abuse at Jesuit Retreat - Religious order admits two retarded men were victimized. Talks are underway to settle $10-million suit. by Glenn F. Bunting, Times Staff Writer "Los Gatos, Calif. -- Two mentally disabled men who live and work at a Jesuit retreat were sexually abused by members of the clergy for at least five years, according to court records and interviews....Of the seven clergymen convicted of sex crimes or named in the civil lawsuit, five were previously employed at Jesuit high schools. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-032402molest.story Studies Show Rise In Abuse Cases 3/28/02 "However, research suggests that sexual abuse may actually be on the rise. The results of the Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect, published in 1996, showed an increase of 125 percent in the number of sexually abused children since the 1986 report....The taboos that once prevented sexual abuse victims from revealing their experiences are no longer an issue, Ellis said, which may be one reason why more victims have come forward. Several organizations devoted to the prevention of child sex abuse have Web sites describing their work and offering tips and other resources. The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, founded by the Rev. Marie Fortune, conducts research on abuse and offers treatment referrals for abuse victims, including victims of clergy abuse. AdvocateWeb, a Web site run by mental health professionals, offers help for victims abused by trusted professionals such as clergy or therapists. The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, features extensive statistics and publications devoted to the study and prevention of abuse. Fact Sheet for Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: NASA Review of Human Radiation Experiments 13 April 1994 NASA Is Continuing its Review of Human Radiation Experiments Involving NASA Investigations or NASA Funding. "Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies (ORINS): ORINS began studies of the effects of whole body radiation on leukemia and other cancers in the late 1950s. From 1964 to 1974, NASA contributed to the funding of both a retrospective study and a prospective study at ORINS of the effects of radiation exposure in individuals who were exposed to whole body radiation for medical treatment or who were accidentally exposed." http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/backgnd/activ/nasamem.txt Commentary regarding NSAM-#271 and NASA by Nathan Gant - "On Nov. 4, 1984, Dr. Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolf received NASA's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal, at an official ceremony in the Reagan White House. He supervised the production and operation of the Saturn rocket booster which was a key component to NASA's manned moon missions during the 1960's. Interestingly, Rudolf's Saturn rocket-booster manufacturing plant in Gentilly, south of New Orleans, also housed a CIA station at the same time. Almost immediately after he received that honor, he renounced his US citizenship and returned to Germany that year. His past was finally catching up on him. Government investigators were preparing to charge and deport him as a war criminal based on incriminating evidence in the National Archives. He joined the Nazi party in 1931 and the SA Storm Troopers in 1933. He was a close colleague of Wehner von Braun at the Mittlewerk Dora slave-labor factory in Harz, Germany where the V-1 and V-2 rockets were assembled." http://www.astridmm.com/prouty/271a.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000021866mar26.story March 26, 2002 THE WORLD Empty American Promises Embitter an Afghan Village by JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER DARA-I-SUF, Afghanistan -- One icy night in mid-October, a U.S. military advisor who called himself "Baba John" rounded up villagers in this guerrilla fighters' paradise and asked them what they wanted when the war was over. A school. A clinic. Roads that wouldn't turn to mud when it rained. Pens. Pencils. Grain. "Baba John offered so many things," recalls Azim Naim Zada, a community elder. "He told us that if we fought hard against the Taliban, we'd get so much food we'd grow fat, like him." The villagers did fight hard, and helped drive the Taliban out of this rocky canyon about 75 miles south of Mazar-i-Sharif. 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