Principal Charged With Having Sex With Student Inside Office (male principal---male student)

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[oh8eleven]

I can assure you that if anything like this went on--and I doubt it--it likely would have been reported.
Well, it probably did occur, just not as frequently as it is today. Today, no one's afraid of repercussions - "they gots rights."
It was happening in the Catholic Church back then and the problem was never reported or dealt with. The "problems" were just transferred to another parish.

[sitetest]

Dear Salvation,

“(Excepting possible homes where parents are sexually abusing children.)”

This is misleading.

Sexual abuse by biological parents happens but isn't common.

Sexual abuse within “blended” families by step-parents and live-ins is significantly more common.

sitetest

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

But large numbers of children of divorced women live with stepfathers. Stepfathers and boyfriends are the source of most in-home child abuse.

[sitetest]

Dear Lucius Cornelius Sulla,

That's my point.

Abuse within intact families is not common. It is very unusual for biological parents to prey on their own children.

The slur is often made against men that most abuse happens within the home, and mostly by men. But it is not men who marry, have children, and maintain an intact family who are often abusers.

sitetest

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It is my fault. I replied to the first part of your post without reading the second part, and therefore just repeated your point back to you. Don’t usually make this mistake. Sorry about that.

[sitetest]

No problem.

[metmom]

More parents sexually abuse their own children than public school teachers?

I’d like to see stats on that.

Besides, when it’s a comparison for the sake of making other groups which sexually abuse children not look so bad by pointing out that others do it more, that’s vile and disgusting.

[metmom]

Schools won’t have to fork over $$$ because they deal with it properly. The offender is arrested and changed and tried, not covered for, shifted around, and outright lied about.

[GOPJ]

Too many union ‘educators’ see public schools as their private whore houses ... I wonder how many get away with this stuff and for how many years. I doubt this young man was his ‘first’.

[samiam1972]

I just saw something about teachers being shifted from school to school. I honestly don’t remember where I saw it. ‘Waiting for Superman’ maybe? I’ll have to go back and check. I also don’t have any statistics about abuse in the schools vs abuse in the home. Do you?

[metmom]

There were mistakes made. They didn’t handle it well at all.

*Mistakes* made??? That they didn't handle it well is the understatement of the year.

The Catholic church is downright complicit in the abuse of all those children for it's deliberate covering up of the abuse. Their actions ( or lack thereof) are reprehensible.

Look, I know Catholics just love to point out that others allegedly abuse at higher rates than Catholic priests are alleged to but that still doesn't make it right on the part of the priests and it certainly by no means excuses the churches response to the abuse.

One statistic I'd love to see is not just the number who abuse, but the number who are abused per abuser. There are horror stories of Catholic priests who abused many kids per.

The Catholic church takes the high moral ground. They are more responsible when something like this happens and more accountable.

Making others look worse so someone can say, *Well, see. Others do it even more so the Catholic priests aren't so bad after all* is a lie from the pit. It is worse if Catholic priests do it because they're claiming to be priests to God and representatives of Christ on earth. This is representing Christ to those abused?

The spiritual damage done is the worst kind because it taints the child's view of God and Christ FOREVER.

[metmom]

Stepdads can legitimately called parents, but boyfriends???

Get a grip.

That has agenda written all over it by including them to make it look like abuse happens more by parents than anyone else.

[metmom]

No, I don’t but I’m not the one who made the charge so it’s not my responsibility to back it up.

[samiam1972]

Okay, let me rephrase it in stronger words to suit your agenda. The Catholic Church’s role in covering up the abuse is the worst thing in the world to ever happen and there is absolutely nothing they can do to make it up to the victims. Every single priest in the Church is guilty by association and the Church should be forced to sell every single thing it owns in every country in the world and give it to anyone that claims to have been abused. Then the Church should be shut down forever because there is absolutely no good coming from it anymore. There can never be any forgiveness to the Catholic Church.

There. Is that better? Good grief! This is not an article about priests. Why can we not discuss all areas where abuse occurs and come up with ways to protect all children from all areas without being accused of trying to pass the blame? Why do these threads all boil down to ‘they are all guilty but some are more guilty than others’.

[samiam1972]

So neither one of us know for sure what the accurate stats are. I guess we should both reserve judgement then.

[arasina]

I graduated high school in 1965. While I appreciate the technological advances made since then, it seems our culture has become a sewer. Can you imagine the challenges of raising a teenager in today’s world?

And to top it off, a 63-year-old singer (goes by "Elton John") and his legitimized-by-civil-service male "partner" are given an infant boy (surrogate mother) and regaled for doing so. One of the baby's "godmothers" is an IT that goes by "Lady Gaga". There is more shameless debauchery and blasphemy in today's society because the technological advances spread the sewer culture far and wide.

[RnMomof7]

Abuse in schools is far higher than anywhere else. (Excepting possible homes where parents are sexually abusing children.)

I guess this means we should just forget about all the priests that have raped kids.. after all schools do it more , and homes do it more

Seems to me that would be expected and 100% of kids are in schools and homes and probably only 15% or so are in Catholic churches

[presently no screen name]

There is a HUGE effort in the church to protect children now

Because they are forced to do something. Children, pick up your coloring books.

There were mistakes made

What you are calling 'mistakes' are DELIBERATE and CALCULATED sins. And that falls right in line where the RCC tactics - 'covering' the horrific actions of priests who hurt children physically, mentality and spiritually.

Victims are getting money, not that that will ever take away what they had to go through. If would have been better if it had never happened

ONLY because the law is involved. More watering down - "IT" is singular - this has been ongoing for a least 50 years.

What is it exactly that you want from the Church now?

Nothing! They are incapable of giving me anything. Their bad fruit will continue because anyone not believing God's Word is the absolute Final Authority has nothing to offer but evil. And we are merely witnessing the manifestation of their doctrines of the devil.

[presently no screen name]

There is a HUGE effort in the church to protect children now

Because they are forced to do something. Children, pick up your coloring books.

There were mistakes made

What you are calling 'mistakes' are DELIBERATE and CALCULATED sins. And that falls right in line where the RCC tactics - 'covering' the horrific actions of priests who hurt children physically, mentality and spiritually.

Victims are getting money, not that that will ever take away what they had to go through. If would have been better if it had never happened

ONLY because the law is involved. More watering down - "IT" is singular - this has been ongoing for a least 50 years.

What is it exactly that you want from the Church now?

Nothing! They are incapable of giving me anything. Their bad fruit will continue because anyone not believing God's Word is the absolute Final Authority has nothing to offer but evil. And we are merely witnessing the manifestation of their doctrines of the devil.

[Lancey Howard]

Becoming teachers and administrators and working in schools seems like it would be a natural fit for pedophiles and predators. Plus, they have their unions to protect them.