RE: Sexual Abuse in Social Context: Clergy and other (Secular) Professionals.
July 13, 2023 at 2:03 pm
@Nishant Xavier
That’s very interesting. I can’t help but wonder how those figures were arrived at - how does a church determine who is a kiddie fucker and who isn’t? I can’t image that priests and ministers are likely to voluntarily admit that they’re paedophiles. I know a bit about the ordination process, and neither priests nor Protestant pastors are required to undergo psych evaluations that would reveal paedophilia. If a cleric is accused and cleared of such charges, he wouldn’t be included in the statistic.
It seems the only way to determine if a cleric has raped a minor is if they are accused, charged, tried, and convicted of the offense. Based on the numbers you quoted, it looks as though Protestant denominations are 2 to 10 times better at catching kiddie fuckers than the Catholic Church.
Your people just…awful.
Boru
Quote:Finally, in the authoritative work by Penn State professor Philip Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests, it was determined that between .2 and 1.7 percent of priests are pedophiles. The figure among the Protestant clergy ranges between 2 and 3 percent.
That’s very interesting. I can’t help but wonder how those figures were arrived at - how does a church determine who is a kiddie fucker and who isn’t? I can’t image that priests and ministers are likely to voluntarily admit that they’re paedophiles. I know a bit about the ordination process, and neither priests nor Protestant pastors are required to undergo psych evaluations that would reveal paedophilia. If a cleric is accused and cleared of such charges, he wouldn’t be included in the statistic.
It seems the only way to determine if a cleric has raped a minor is if they are accused, charged, tried, and convicted of the offense. Based on the numbers you quoted, it looks as though Protestant denominations are 2 to 10 times better at catching kiddie fuckers than the Catholic Church.
Your people just…awful.
Boru
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