You know I only read short posts and scan the long ones. Pls,don't throw out the "T" word and get shane all up in here.
Sad thing is, we probably all know someone who was abused or affected by abuse in some way. It's something I truly cant understand. How can people be so sick?
I actually wanted to circle back to this because I think there's a huge issue here that doesn't get the kind of attention it should. A few statistics..... • Approximately 30% of children who are sexually abused are abused by family members.12,13 • The younger the victim, the more likely it is that the abuser is a family member. Of those molesting a child under six, 50% were family members. Family members also accounted for 23% of those abusing children ages 12 to 17.9 • About 60% of children who are sexually abused are abused by people the family trusts. The younger the child victim, the more likely it is that the perpetrator is a juvenile. Juveniles are the offenders in 43% of assaults on children under age six. Of these offenders, 14% are under age 12.9 • Juveniles who commit sex offenses against other children are more likely than adult sex offenders to offend in groups, to offend at schools, and to have more male victims and younger victims.11 • The number of youth coming to the attention of police for sex offenses increases sharply at age 12 and plateaus after age 14. Early adolescence is the peak age for youth offenses against younger children.14 • A small number of juvenile offenders — one out of eight — are younger than age 12. Females constitute 7% of juveniles who commit sex offenses. And with all that....43% of all households in the US are single-parent and are raising approximately 22 million children. Family structure is the most important risk factor in child sexual abuse. Children who live with two married biological parents are at low risk for abuse. The risk increases when children live with step-parents or a single parent.3 • Children living without either parent (foster children) are 10 times more likely to be sexually abused than children that live with both biological parents. Children who live with a single parent that has a live-in partner are at the highest risk: they are 20 times more likely to be victims of child sexual abuse than children living with both biological parents. I think too many single moms who struggle financially, end up allowing a man in to their home believing they won't hurt their children. It's not true and I wish more women were willing and able to put their kids first. A child would be better off in a group home with their mother than being molested by some opportunistic sleaze bag who offends when the mom isn't there....and sometimes when she is. And one last issue that has made child sexploitation a much bigger issue on the largest scale possible....child pornography and the internet. So disgusted when I read of people who "sell" their own children in to situations like this for money and the scum who view and buy it. Oh, and tiga....you think sex with minors i.e. sexual abuse didn't get lots of attention? Is there anyone out there who doesn't know what happens if THIS guy shows up at your house?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45249109 He also sent me a text and said to tell you LSU would've won in '03, he's sure.
I suppose it's better than nothing but I'm not the audience he needs to convince. "Margaret McGuckin from Survivors & Victims of Institutional Abuse, a historic abuse charity based in Northern Ireland, said the Pope's response was "too little too late" and said "nothing will change" with the letter. Anne Barrett-Doyle, co-director of clerical abuse tracking website BishopAccountability.org, said there needed to be "more actions, less words" from Pope Francis. "He needs an effective discipline process for bishops and religious superiors who are known to have enabled abuse," she said. Irish campaigner Marie Collins, who was abused by a priest as a teenager, welcomed the condemnation of Church cover-ups, but said more concrete action on accountability was needed." Specifically, Collins said, "Statements from Vatican or Pope should stop telling us how terrible abuse is and how all must be held accountable. Tell us instead what you are doing to hold them accountable. That is what we want to hear. “Working on it” is not an acceptable explanation for decades of “delay” I think the letter is on the late side and if he wants to truly see a change then he needs to be the FIRST one to take ethics training and then he needs to make sure that every bishop and cardinal who participated in a cover up is kicked out. As for 2003....he thinks football is that gay flopper sport.
Since 2002 all priests and bishops as well as lay ministers take Ethics training. Since 2002 there have been few cases reported - even the Pennsylvania report had no cases after 2002 they said this morning on the Today show. It was all pre-2002. When a priest is accused, they are removed from ministry while investigations go on. So there is a no tolerance policy currently. I think the Pope need to be more vocal on that. And any bishop who covered up or moved priests, should be defrocked.
Drop the first paragraph. Hell ALL State employees take an ethics training too. You think that stops teachers from screwing students? Legislators from dishonesty? It's a stupid online shit that one can let play and just answer the 4 questions at the end of each chapter. Oh, and it doesn't even matter if you answer correctly, each participant gets an Ethics Training certificate. But even more so, when it happened is not as significant as the fact that IT DID happen and it wasn't handled correctly- to say the least. Thanfully, what the Pope said today sounds like we're moving in the right direction.
Few? Ireland, Chile, Australia, Mexico... Tomasi said that since 2004, more than 3,400 credible cases of abuse had been referred to the Vatican, including 401 cases in 2013 alone. He said that over the last decade, 848 priests had been defrocked, or returned to the lay state by the pope. Another 2,572 were sentenced to a lifetime of penance and prayer or some other lesser sanction, which is often used when the accused priest is elderly or infirm. "In 2013, officials from the Vatican took questions from the U.N. about sexual abuse in the Church. But officials refused to provide data on how many cases of abuse the church dealt with, and the U.N. admonished the Vatican for its lack of transparency." "In a letter sent on December 28th, 2016, Pope Francis wrote that bishops worldwide need to adopt a zero-tolerance policy toward child abusers within their institution. And in June 2016, he ruled that bishops who fail to report sexual abuse by priests can be removed from office. However, Francis has also continued to uphold a law that allows the church to withhold reports of abuse from authorities." How did McCarrick become an archbishop? What of Bernard Law's full mass? Cardinal Wuerl is still working. "Meanwhile, officials in Pennsylvania said their investigation is not over. State Attorney General Josh Shapiro said his office's hotline and email accounts for abuse survivors have "lit up" with more than 150 calls since the grand jury report was published." But is that really happening in every single case? I agree with the rest.
