NY Catholic Church 'worried' Child Victims Act would pass: report

The problem the Catholic Church has with child sexual abuse is the same problem the rest of the world has, there is a percentage of people, usually males, who are sexually attracted to children. It happens everywhere where these people are given unsupervised access to children, in other words churches, public schools, athletic clubs, scouting, camps, choirs, etc, and most of all, in families. By far the most child sexual abuse occurs within families. 

To act as if this is mainly a problem of the Catholic Church is blatant misrepresentation and sometimes the result of anti-Catholic bigotry. 

Most of the perpetrators of child abuse (neglect, physical abuse, and  sexual abuse ) were family members. For example, 80.8% of (instance-based count, rather than person-based) perpetrators were parents, 5.9 percent were relatives other than parents, and 4.4 percent were unmarried partners of parents. In addition, the perpetrators included   sibling , victim’s boyfriend or girlfriend, babysitter, other caretakers, and strangers. There is no indication that the pattern of offenders of sexual abuse, which accounted for 9.1% of the cases, differed from the general one. The data is also consistent with the practitioners’ observation about sex abuse perpetrators. As reported in American Psychological Association website, the majority of sexual offenders are family members or are otherwise known to the child.

However, this reality has not set in for some people because only sex crimes perpetrated by strangers or persons with special status (e. g ., coach, teacher) tend to receive the news media’ attention. High (low) level publicity of an event in the media is often mistaken as high (low) frequency of the event. If the news media could pay more attention to family violence and to physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused child victims at home, they would make a greater contribution in keeping children safe and healthy.

psychologytoday

Child sexual abuse is a major public health problem. About 1 in every 4 girls and 1 in every 13 boys in the US experience sexual abuse at some time in their childhood. The vast majority of sexual abuse is committed by someone that the child or their family knows. The long-term emotional and physical damage after sexual abuse can be devastating to the child. Children who experience sexual abuse and other “adverse childhood experiences” (ACEs) such as physical abuse or neglect, have a higher chance of developing depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, drug addiction, and suicidal behaviors later in life. They also have a higher chance of developing physical conditions such as heart disease later in life. This is why it is so important to identify it as soon as possible, seek help for these children, and focus on preventing it in the future.

Child sexual abuse often takes place within the family, by a parent, stepparent, sibling or other relative; or outside the home, for example, by a friend, neighbor, childcare person, teacher, or stranger. When sexual abuse has occurred, a child develops many distressing feelings, thoughts and behaviors. Children may be threatened by the abuser and be fearful to tell anyone else, especially if the abuser is someone they know well.

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This article doesnt even mention Catholic priests as the offenders, although obviously they would fall under the category of  teacher. 

The seed is about the Catholic Church and child sexual abuse. My comment 2 is about the Catholic Church and child sexual abuse. For some bizarre reason you said it was off topic. You have to own your own actions. 

The child sexual abuse committed by catholic priests is a small percentage of all child sexual abuse, yet is is "discussed" by people like you as if it were all of it. 

I don't play that game. 

None of my comments were off topic. 

Is there a more corrupt institution on the planet than the Catholic Church? QAnon was right (to a degree) that there is a global pedophile ring, but it isn't liberals, democrats, Jews, or goblins, it is the RCC.