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louis c

(8,652 posts)
11. 80% of victims were male
Sun Nov 12, 2017, 06:35 PM
Nov 2017

According to Psychology today:

<snip> First, a look at the statistics: The most detailed statistics on child abuse for the Catholic clergy that I can find comes from the special report based on a national survey of victimization conducted for the 2004 American Catholic bishops' conference. The findings reveal that the frequency of child abuse among Catholic priests is not remarkable-involving around 4 % of priests and deacons who served in the U.S., but its pattern is. Outside of the Catholic Church, the overwhelming numbers of juvenile victims of sexual abuse are female. Within the church, however, four out of five of their victims are male. Most were adolescents aged 14 or over; 15% were under 10. <snip>

Link:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/crimes-violence/201005/priest-abuse-male-compared-female-victimization-impact

Moore is a male. Priests are male. LuvLoogie Nov 2017 #1
The victims' gender louis c Nov 2017 #5
Actually, lots of girls were abused by priests as well. yardwork Nov 2017 #15
as usual. mopinko Nov 2017 #19
80% Male Victims louis c Nov 2017 #22
Those are the ones the church acknowledges. yardwork Nov 2017 #24
Priests dont run for office. MatthewG. Nov 2017 #2
Priests have molested girls as well. maxsolomon Nov 2017 #3
Vast majority of cases are male victims by Priests louis c Nov 2017 #6
Not the victims I know nini Nov 2017 #10
80% of victims were male louis c Nov 2017 #11
Ok nini Nov 2017 #13
I wasn't molested, but NastyRiffraff Nov 2017 #17
I replied to you belong in the wrong place nini Nov 2017 #21
There was a priest at the church I went to that was involved in a big mess nini Nov 2017 #20
There was much easier access to boys in the church AJT Nov 2017 #12
Consider also who becomes a priest. Not guys who get girls pregnant! L. Coyote Nov 2017 #14
I think that the fact that the church basically protected pedophiles AJT Nov 2017 #16
Or they thought the vow of celibacy would somehow "cure" them. nt dflprincess Nov 2017 #23
For Moore supporters gender makes a huge difference JI7 Nov 2017 #4
👆👆👆👆👆this irisblue Nov 2017 #7
Not a thing gopiscrap Nov 2017 #8
Not a damn thing, they take advantage of the weak & innocent Motley13 Nov 2017 #9
Moore is a protestant. The priests are catholics. Yavin4 Nov 2017 #18
Priests imagine that they've heard a calling from God. Moore thinks he is God. Orrex Nov 2017 #25
Priests worked for an organization designed to propagate and protect pedophilia, aka the Church Not Ruth Nov 2017 #26
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