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Just how many priests have been accused of sex crimes?
dpareja:
http://bishop-accountability.org/priestdb/PriestDBbylastName-A.html
A database of accusations against Roman Catholic clergy regarding sexual abuse of minors and possession of child pornography--US priests only (and it's still huge).
As I saw it put, the Mafia has better standards than the Catholic Church, because if the mob found out that some of its members were raping kids, they'd off them.
RavynousHunter:
I wonder what the overall proportion of sex offenders to people is amongst the clergy. Like, what are the (admittedly a bit rough) odds that any given priest is going to give your kid a lesson in a different kind of indulgence?
Eiki-mun:
Why are you asking us? It says how many right there in the link you posted. 109.
davedan:
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, found (from the wikipedia page, which has citations):
--- Quote ---The Commission revealed 7% of Australian priests between 1950–2009 were accused of abusing children, and that one Catholic order had 40.4% of their non-ordained members with allegations against them in this period.
--- End quote ---
I don't know what the general percentage of Child Molesters is in the community Given they reckon one in 10 kids suffer from sexual abuse, I would have thought the 7% is probably the community average or a little higher (given that perpetrators usually have more than one victim).
However once you get to 40% you are running a refuge for rock spiders.
Edit: Sorry here is the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases
dpareja:
--- Quote from: Eiki-mun on February 20, 2018, 03:42:13 pm ---Why are you asking us? It says how many right there in the link you posted. 109.
--- End quote ---
One, the question was rhetorical; two, that link only goes to the page for clergy whose last names end in "A".
Under "M," for instance, they have 499 records.
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