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(7,981 posts) Thu Aug 30, 2012, 08:01 PM Aug 2012

New York friar blames youngsters who ‘seduce’ priests, coaches [View all]

A prominent New York-based friar has sympathy for some pedophiles -- including defrocked priests and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky -- saying they are sometimes "seduced" by their underage victims.

Father Benedict Groeschel’s jarring comments come amid ongoing fallout from child sex abuse scandals that have rocked Penn State and, over the past decade, the Catholic Church.

In some of these cases, children “looking for a father figure” are responsible for the relationship with someone in a position of power -- like a coach or clergy member, Groeschel told the National Catholic Register.

“Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, and a youngster comes after him. A lot of the cases, the youngster - 14, 16, 18 - is the seducer," said Groeschel, a founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sympathy-poor-guy-jerry-sandusky-pedophiles-new-york-friar-blames-youngsters-seduce-priests-coaches-article-1.1147848#ixzz254r1ACt1

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so, old man, how many boys have seduced YOU? what, exactly, are you hiding/projecting here? niyad Aug 2012 #14

“Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, niyad Aug 2012 #17

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