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To: shrinkermd

There are both. I worked for some time with a woman who had been systematically abused sexually for close to two years by a priest head of a catholic girl’s school. The diocese struck a big financial deal and a confidentiality agreement, and re-asigned the priest, who is still in business elsewhere today. Beyond cases like that though, it is true that upward of 60% of substantiated sexual abuse allegations against priests have been filed by boys, at or beyond puberty. That’s homosexual exploitation, not pedophilia.


12 posted on 11/11/2007 7:47:19 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

That’s ephebophilia, not pedophilia.


37 posted on 11/11/2007 9:25:39 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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