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Swordsmyth
08-29-2018, 02:16 PM
April 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com (http://www.lifesitenews.com/)) – In the last several weeks such a quantity of ink has been spilled in newspapers across the globe about the priestly sex abuse scandals, that a casual reader might be forgiven for thinking that Catholic priests are the worst and most common perpetrators of child sex abuse. But according to Charol Shakeshaft, the researcher of a little-remembered 2004 study prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, "the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests."
After effectively disappearing from the radar, Shakeshaft’s study is now being revisited by commentators seeking to restore a sense of proportion to the mainstream coverage of the Church scandal.
According to the 2004 study (http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/report.pdf)“the most accurate data available at this time” indicates that “nearly 9.6 percent of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.”
“Educator sexual misconduct is woefully under-studied,” writes the researcher. “We have scant data on incidence and even less on descriptions of predators and targets. There are many questions that call for answers.”
In an article (http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/03/scoundrel-times) published on Monday, renowned Catholic commentator George Weigel referred to the Shakeshaft study, and observed that “The sexual and physical abuse of children and young people is a global plague” in which Catholic priests constitute only a small minority of perpetrators.
While Weigel observes that the findings of Shakeshaft’s study do nothing to mitigate the harm caused by priestly abuse, or excuse the “clericalism” and “fideism” that led bishops to ignore the problem, they do point to a gross imbalance in the level of scrutiny given to it, throwing suspicion on the motives of the news outlets that are pouring their resources into digging up decades-old dirt on the Church.

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heavenlyboy34
08-29-2018, 02:26 PM
Any developments on this story since 2010? It's intriguing.

Swordsmyth
08-29-2018, 02:32 PM
Any developments on this story since 2010? It's intriguing.

I don't know, I came across a link to it in a comments section about the current Catholic scandals, I doubt the MSM and the atheist establishment will ever look into the public schools the way they have the Catholics, not only are they anti-Christian but they are controlled by people who probably want children abused in the school system.

Schifference
08-29-2018, 02:51 PM
I don't know but it seems possible the study is flawed. How many people are teachers/staff? How many students do they encounter? How many priests/clergy are there? How many children to they come in contact with?

RJB
08-29-2018, 02:57 PM
Catholic priests aren't more likely to abuse kids than any other profession or religion that comes in regular contact with kids. The scandal arose from the cover up and moving a bad priest from one place to another so they could strike again.

Schifference
08-29-2018, 02:58 PM
Catholic priests aren't more likely to abuse kids than any other profession or religion that comes in regular contact with kids. The scandal arose from the cover up and moving a bad priest from one place to another so they could strike again.

Kind of how the cities move their bad cops from one place to another.

RJB
08-29-2018, 02:59 PM
Kind of how the cities move their bad cops from one place to another. Yep.

Swordsmyth
08-29-2018, 03:00 PM
Catholic priests aren't more likely to abuse kids than any other profession or religion that comes in regular contact with kids. The scandal arose from the cover up and moving a bad priest from one place to another so they could strike again.

And they have caught school systems doing the same things but they don't make a big splash about it.

Origanalist
08-29-2018, 03:05 PM
And they have caught school systems doing the same things but they don't make a big splash about it.

Gee, I wonder why.

Swordsmyth
08-29-2018, 03:12 PM
Gee, I wonder why.

I doubt the MSM and the atheist establishment will ever look into the public schools the way they have the Catholics, not only are they anti-Christian but they are controlled by people who probably want children abused in the school system....

DamianTV
08-29-2018, 04:47 PM
School IS Abuse.

Think of it this way. Modern Banking is not just implicated in Fraud, Modern Banking IS Fraud.

There are many forms of Abuse. Some of which are sexual, and that is being buried. Whats buried even further is the true purpose of Education which transforms human children into obedient mindless workers. By another token, if a person is forced to listen to Propaganda, is that person not a Victim of Abuse? It is a very different type of Abuse than sexual or physical. Abuse, if it is defined as a form of intentional wrongdoing for exploitation of a person that causes genuine harm to them, would that not also qualify as Abuse the same way as sexual or physical abuse are defined?

Origanalist
08-29-2018, 09:58 PM
School IS Abuse.

Think of it this way. Modern Banking is not just implicated in Fraud, Modern Banking IS Fraud.

There are many forms of Abuse. Some of which are sexual, and that is being buried. Whats buried even further is the true purpose of Education which transforms human children into obedient mindless workers. By another token, if a person is forced to listen to Propaganda, is that person not a Victim of Abuse? It is a very different type of Abuse than sexual or physical. Abuse, if it is defined as a form of intentional wrongdoing for exploitation of a person that causes genuine harm to them, would that not also qualify as Abuse the same way as sexual or physical abuse are defined?

My answer would be yes.

oyarde
08-29-2018, 10:09 PM
Public schools need scrapped all together . Then property tax could be scrapped too . It would be a first step to make america Great.

r3volution 3.0
08-29-2018, 10:27 PM
What has occurred in the Church is monstrous and inexcusable and the guilty individuals should be dealt with, up to and including execution.

But there are people who hate the Roman Church and everything it represents (order, law, tradition), and they are exploiting the situation.

Beyond the report cited in the OP, people might want to look at the foster care system, and the adoption system.

Any institution which entails adult interaction with children is prone to this abuse.

Some get more attention that others, for political reasons.

"Rum, Romanism, and rebellion" is still a factor in this country.