[Mrs. Don-o]

I see no evidence of prosecuting attorneys going after the NYC School District's correspondance files and personnel records over the past 50 years so they can comb them for evidence of malfeasance. Hofstra University Researcher Charol Shakeshaft --- Google that name and you'll get tons of information --- not only found a higher incidence of abuse percentage-wise in pubic schools than in Catholic institutions, but found the level of vigilance and safeguards far lower:

(From School Reform News, Sept. 2004):

"A few years ago, for example, a review of 412 teachers hired by the Cleveland, Ohio school district disclosed only 26 had undergone required background checks. Not only did 192 school employees have felony convictions, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported, but 27 of them had three or more."

Evidence of cover-up? Who needs to cover up if nobody is looking?

[happygrl]

My point, though, is that if a child and his/her parents bring an accusation against a teacher, the authorities generally investigate it at the time it occurs (I'm sure that there are exceptions). There isn't someone intermediary running interference.

Again, this was the coverup.

With regard to the comparisons between the rate of sex crimes of Catholic schools and public schools, your data underlines the superiority of the climate and standards created in Catholic schools. This should be underscored in the Catholic Church's PR.

If the MSM was fair, it would also be illuminated in the MSM. But it has had, as its mission, the denigration of Catholics.