Early reports came mostly from the United States and Ireland. The John Jay Report[1] found accusations against 4,392 priests in the USA, about 4% of all priests. <br /><br />There had long been charges that a significant minority of the clergy had been practicing such behavior for decades, alleging that a "homosexual collective" within the priesthood viewed child sex abuse as a "religious rite" and "rite of passage" for altar boys and young priests.[5] While the reported sexual abuse dates primarily from the 1960s to 1980s,[6] some cases occurred in the 1990s and sexual abuse has also happened in past centuries: it was the topic of Pope Benedict XIV's apostolic constitution Sacramentum Poenitentiae in 1741. <br /><br />The Catholic League has argued that the abuse figures in the Catholic Church are similar to abuse in other institutions: in U.S. public schools, up to 5% of all teachers are responsible for sexually abusing 15% of all students.[7] A 2003 survey reports that 6.7% of U.S. students had experienced educator sexual misconduct involving physical contact.[8] A U.S. Department of Education report issued in 2004 examined a number of American studies into the prevalence of sexual misconduct by school staff. They found that between 3.5% and 50.3% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career. They found that teachers, coaches, substitute teachers were the most common offenders. (Charol Shakeshaft, "Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature," U.S. Department of Education, 2004-JUN <br /><br /><b>Part2</b> <br /><a class="link" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailymotion.com/fairfighter/video/x1vzji_sexcrimes10001/1">http://www.dailymotion.com/fairfighter/video/x1vzji_sexcrimes10001/1</a> <br /><br />No comments...
