Churches and child abuse?

[Richardceorl1]

216,000 child victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in France in the last 70 years

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the world is bad people are worse

[007kingifrit]

so you might think that child molestation in the church is more common than other places by that stat huh? truth is priests are LESS LIKELY than the general public to molest kids

4% of catholic priests are alleged to be abusers while 6% of school teachers are alleged to be abusers https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/do-the-right-thing/201908/top-10-myths-about-clergy-abuse-in-the-catholic-church

so the truth is the media just unfairly focuses on priests because... the left hates religion

[exitseven]

Before the criminal prosecutions I had heard a few stories from local cops about having to go and speak to some of these priests to ell them to stop whatever it was they were doing. People were afraid to arrest a priest because kids were brought up that they would go to hell. My wife would never believe any of these stories. Now that the truth has come out it is a real disappointment.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO

[Moimaris]

A lot or gay men decided to join the Catholic Church to hide their homoseksualiteit and to follow the advice of not having sex because that is what God would advice us.

the problem is that you can’t deny sexual feelings because god gave man and woman sexual feelings and God doesn’t say you can’t have sex. And therefore these gay men abused children because who can oppress sexual feelings?

[Anonymous]

Because the catholic church likes to spread the word of God... all over peoples backs.

Horrible jokes aside, this is hardly new. Anyone in authority will abuse it at some point.

[OlderAndWiser]

I don't know how many people have been sexually abused in churches but not nearly as many as have been sexually abused in their own homes.

[Mango-man]

If I remember correctly it was like 2% of the total number of priests were abusers. And while the raw number seems pretty high, it ain't far from the percentage of sexual abusers in general public.

[Mango-man]

So it isn't a localised problem with churches alone, but rather global problem across the whole population. Some form of extra prevention should be implemented on large scale.

[Massageman]

I'm certainly not excusing the actions of the exceptions.

Also over 60 million murders via abortion in the last 48 years.

And likely more than THAT number of abuse victims in their homes, the victims of their "loved ones".

[FunkyMonkee]

And religion, politicians and the Hollywood elite are even worse!! If you knew how many children have been abused and even killed by these sick fuckers...

[NathanDavis]

and that is just one country... that admitted a part of the problem

[Not_a_baddie]

Actually the number could be pretty more. But I'm not surprised by it at all.

[Richardceorl1]

unofficial more But they hide

[Not_a_baddie]

Yeah.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

No surprise. The Catholic Church belongs to Satan. All popes and priests are devils.

[msc545]

The Church needs to be more careful about who it allows to become priests.