Catholic Archdiacease of Chicago's Sexual Abuse Records

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In advance of the release of documents the church issued statements continuing the deflection of blame, basically calling the shuffling of abusive priests between parishes, a ignorant mistake.

Not turning the lights on in the gym before a game is an ignorant mistake. What the church did was a criminal cover up. Sexual abuse is a crime to be handled by the police not the church.

The church also takes great pains to pool all victims together, labeling them children and thus their abusers, pedophiles.

What the church neglects to address is the largest segment of abuse victims, those 15-17 and almost if not all, exclusively male. I believe this omission of understanding and acknowledgement to be on purpose making the solution, rather the excuse, as simple as possible.

Priests that preyed on students between 15-17 occurred more often than all incidents involving those 10 and under and as a catholic student it was obvious what the problem was. It wasn't so much pedophilia but consensual sex, albeit with a minor. When a group of five students go on a weekend ski trip, sponsored by a priest, hello!

And while the pedophilia problem is out and addressed, the church refuses to even acknowledge the existence of the other more common abuse and that leads me to believe it continues to this day.

http://www.suntimes.com/24971968-761...a-mistake.html