Absolutely sickening!
This was taken from the February 26,2004 Free Press -----
A national, church-sanctioned study documenting sex abuse by U.S. Roman Catholic clergy found that about 4 percent of clerics have been accused of molesting minors since 1950, a diocese said Thursday.
The Diocese of Yakima, Wash., said in a news release that the survey compiled by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice found 4,392 of the 109,694 clergy who served over that five-decade period faced allegations of abuse.
The survey was overseen by the National Review Board, a lay watchdog panel the bishops formed at the height of the abuse crisis. The review board had a Friday morning news conference scheduled in Washington to discuss the report and a companion study on how the abuse crisis developed.
Dioceses nationwide received 10,667 abuse claims since 1950, according to the news release. Of those, claims by 6,700 were substantiated. About 3,300 were not investigated because the accused clergymen were dead.
The national report also tallied abuse-related costs at $533.4 million <--think about this the next time you put your envelope in the 'gift' basket.
And these are only the cases that have been reported. How many more do you think there are that are still in silence.
Well, I'm certainly glad to say that I have no associated with the church....and the dirty deeds it protects.
This was taken from the February 26,2004 Free Press -----
A national, church-sanctioned study documenting sex abuse by U.S. Roman Catholic clergy found that about 4 percent of clerics have been accused of molesting minors since 1950, a diocese said Thursday.
The Diocese of Yakima, Wash., said in a news release that the survey compiled by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice found 4,392 of the 109,694 clergy who served over that five-decade period faced allegations of abuse.
The survey was overseen by the National Review Board, a lay watchdog panel the bishops formed at the height of the abuse crisis. The review board had a Friday morning news conference scheduled in Washington to discuss the report and a companion study on how the abuse crisis developed.
Dioceses nationwide received 10,667 abuse claims since 1950, according to the news release. Of those, claims by 6,700 were substantiated. About 3,300 were not investigated because the accused clergymen were dead.
The national report also tallied abuse-related costs at $533.4 million <--think about this the next time you put your envelope in the 'gift' basket.
And these are only the cases that have been reported. How many more do you think there are that are still in silence.
Well, I'm certainly glad to say that I have no associated with the church....and the dirty deeds it protects.
