A question for parents

[Aractus]

After numerous accounts of child sexual abuse that has been reported WHY continue letting your children be alone with religious officials?

I'm - wow. You cannot be serious.

I have known more than six different people who have been sexually abused, and everyone was abused by either a parent or an uncle/aunt. In every single case almost no one knows they were abused. I'm a life-long Christian I've been around the church for a very long time, I've never met a single person that I know was sexually abused by a member religious clergy - or even by a lay person for that matter.

The vast majority of sexual abuse to children happens in the family home by the parents.

In any case, churches are not the only "public institutions" where abuse occurs - sports clubs, non-religious charities, schools, etc - no organization large enough is immune from having members that abuse children.

Question for you: How many people have you met first-hand who have told you "I have been sexually abused"? Have you actually known (personally) anyone sexually abused by Church clergy?

AFAIK there has been one clergy person (or rather ex-clergy as he would have been derobed/defrocked) in the Canberra-Goulburn Anglican Diocese to be guilty of this, and as I said it in no way represents the organization it simply means that a large enough group of people will have someone that does the wrong thing. Think about it this way: if 100% of the world was Anglican then 100% of child sex abusers would be Anglicans, but that would tell you nothing about correlation nor causation nor anything else. We Anglicans will derobe clergy for committing sexual sins far less serious than child molestation you know, we'll derobe those that commit adultery - that certainly doesn't happen to Catholic clergy!!