My thoughts exactly. It’s gotta be the celibacy. It turns otherwise normal people into child molesters.
The silence from the usual suspects here will be deafening.
That’s funny, I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church. Young new pastor came in, messed with plenty young girls in the choir... none older than 12.
Everyone knew it and ended after building up to a church blowout on a Sunday to run him out after a year and a half. Married, son and daughter was my age and a friend. By the grace of God my grandparents had a restaurant and I worked too hard to ever visit anyone... wouldn’t have been allowed anyway.
BTW, i’ve been celibate for twelve years, no problems.
I think it’s more of an control and mental issue with the person that drives them to the sex. Now that things are no longer hidden behind closed doors and more victims speak out (as evidenced by the lengths of time the secrets have been kept by many whether incest inside the home or anything else), we find out a lot of molesters were themselves molested at an young age as well... but couldn’t, didn’t or wouldn’t speak out. What do you do with them?
They always show 1 in 4 girls have been molested at a young age in studies (not everyone goes to church period... so we’re definitely talking homes/schools as well), I don’t think i’ve ever seen solid stats for boys.
Here in NYC, the number of molestations, abuse, rape by illegal aliens are ridiculous... and they let them out several times (keep an eye on the three Guatemalans in Jersey, watch what happens). Go to one of the sites to check your neighborhood for sexual offenders and see what you find.
You’d be shocked at the stats re: teachers and children as well. Then again what we tout in our society doesn’t help either.
http://www.darkness2light.org/KnowAbout/statistics_2.asp