Statistically, they make the whole "Catholic abuse scandal" look like a tempest in a teapot. That's all I was saying.
Christian schools, whether Catholic or Presbyterian, should certainly do their best to screen out and prosecute these monsters -- because any act of child sexual abuse is a tragedy and a scandal. But when child sexual abuse in the Publik Skools are that bad by comparison, estimates of something like 100 times the abuse rate in the allegedly "troubled" Catholic schools -- then I kinda wonder, should we really focus on bashing eachother's denominational schools? Seems to me there's a much larger elephant in the room, yknow?
It's just that Religious Schools make for more titillating headlines, whereas the Public Schools are basically given a "pass" by the Mainstream Media, and treated as if the institution of public schooling is as fundamentally and unquestionably American as baseball and apple pie.
Sorry I flew off the handle about it.
No problem, apology accepted. Of course, the lawyers KNOW that they can’t get the money out of public schools the way they can the Church.. And the new public schools “czar” probably is a NAMBLA board member, anyway.
The difference, however, is that in the RCC the crime is hidden and secrecy is invoked upon the victim under threat of excommunication for 10 years beyond the date of the victim's 18th birthday.
Whereas in public schools, any sexual offender is generally arrested, convicted and sent to jail. Unless some parents get to him first.
And this difference is enormous because the secrecy mandated by the RCC results in valid accusations of complicity and obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting criminals.