Study: 4,392 Priests Accused of Sex Abuse

[CtK]

WASHINGTON - A national church-sanctioned study documenting sex abuse by U.S. Roman Catholic clergy found that about 4 percent of clerics have been accused of molesting minors since 1950, a diocese said Thursday.

The Diocese of Yakima, Wash., said in a news release that the survey compiled by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice found 4,392 of the 109,694 clergy who served over that five-decade period faced allegations of abuse.

The survey was overseen by the National Review Board, a lay watchdog panel the bishops formed at the height of the abuse crisis. The review board had a Friday morning news conference scheduled in Washington to discuss the report and a companion study on how the abuse crisis developed.

Dioceses nationwide received 10,667 abuse claims since 1950, according to the news release. Of those, claims by 6,700 were substantiated. Another 3,300 were not investigated because the accused clergymen were dead.

Another 1,000 claims proved to be unsubstantiated, the diocese said.

The national report also tallied abuse-related costs at $533.4 million.

god damn thats a lot of money!!

 

[Platypus]

0.04%

 

[MercenaryForHire]

And people get all huffy when someone takes a shot at the priests?

- M4H

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
0.04%

Might want to consider that remedial math course.

It's ~4%.



BTW, I think we should make a Constitutional amendment banning priests. They should all be deported. They are corrupting and abusing our children.

 

[Siddhartha]

I did not understand the outrage around this until I realized that the church had shown more concerned about its priests over the wellbeing of the children.

 

[Viper0329]

Priests aren't the only ones...

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Viper0329
Priests aren't the only ones...

I dont know. but a priests accused of sex abuse is far worse well at least to me.

but yeah teachers are right up there.

sigh. sick fvucks.