From: dilip dacruz <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 2:01:44 AM Subject: RE: [SALIGAONET] Fw: Your Priests Need Your Prayers
Just a quickie: <Its impossible to estimate the incidence of child rape in the priesthood and compare it with the general> population. There are no figures for either. Searches produce results that stagger from 0.3% of priests to 10% of priests. It's similar for the general population. And the problem is compounded by women raping children - still a very dark and uncounted area. Two things are certain: a: All individuals in authority will exploit at some level. And absolute authority will lend to absolute abuse. Witness all the housemaids in the Gulf.> You're right, the government is based on transparent agreed policies made up of individuals we put there, who collectively from the local panchayat to the highest in the echelons have ABSOLUTE POWER and ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY. This FAILED SYSTEM has miserably let everyone down, indiscriminately exploiting everything in their wake, from the very people who chose them (men, women & children) to the flora and the fauna. From the depth of the oceans to the space beyond our atmosphere. Infested with the worst kind of vermin and hypocrites. If the focus be taken of the abused victims then here is where it has to be directed. Is this a lost cause or is there a calculated devious movement to divert the attention ???? <b: The incidence of child abuse is never zero.> Agreed, everywhere and anywhere. <(Except, it seems, in the Indian church!)> This seems to be a concerted prejudice. <Poor people are not more prone to abusing children though one might argue, as Ashley has done, that they have less opportunity to indulge in other activities such as movies etc etc. Again, no figures.> I agree. <We cannot therefore focus on celibacy, poverty, isolation or anything such.> True, we should view the whole picture. Quentin -- This message comes via the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" 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/saligao-net?hl=en Please post regularly to keep the e-village active!
