Chris, see the report on educator sexual abuse commissioned by the US Department of Education at http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/report.pdf quoted in that piece. The numbers show far more children are sexually abused by public school educators than by priests.
On Mar 27, 2:33 pm, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > This opinion piece was written in 2004, and doesn't have anywhere near > current data. > > I did note that my numbers were harder to quantify. To get an accurate > percentage, we have to filter out priests who are in seclusion, in > monasteries, or who in some other way have no public contact on a regular > basis. If take into account the limited geographical locations where the > vast majority of the transgressions occurred, you see would see a much > higher net percentage of priests, in contact with the regular public, who > have molested children: > > http://cara.georgetown.edu/bulletin/ > > 272,431 diocesan priests > > Of those, how many work in diocese have little to no access to children, due > to population, or environmental restrictions, etc. > > Difficult to quantify, but not impossible, if we had all the numbers. > > > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Alan Wostenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 27, 8:28 am, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Number of priests against whom allegations have been substantiated (not > > the > > > total number actually who have committed said crimes: just under 4400. > > So 4400 offenders in the past fifty years, Chris. They succumbed to > > sin, to be sure. But according to your numbers, 4% of total population > > are pedophiles, in comparison to 1.5% of priests. Our priests are far > > more faithful to their vows, than the general population. A child is > > far more likely to be molested by a public school teacher than a > > priest, where "between 6 and 10% of children have been abused by a > > public school teacher" according tohttp://bit.ly/a8JBIq. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > ""Minds Eye"" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<minds-eye%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > .com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
