• Fraylor@lemm.ee
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    Meh. Doubt it. The priests do the rape, congregation claps them on. May as well simply assume anyone of the catholic faith rapes children. Easier than being nice to them.

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      Teachers molest and rape children at a higher rate than Catholic priests. I am not sure why we seem to focus on the Catholic religion for this and ignore where it is now common. It better said, why not focus on both?

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            Yikes what a poorly written article. The author doesn’t understand basic rationality.

            The physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.

            Yes because the number of teachers and students is magnitudes larger than the number of Catholic children and priests. There’s a lack of proportionality here.

            the federal report said 422,000 California public-school students would be victims before graduation — a number that dwarfs the state’s entire Catholic-school enrollment of 143,000.

            Lol that is very dumb. We aren’t comparing Catholic schools, we are comparing the rate of abuse in Catholicism as a whole compared to the school system, and even then it should be scaled to the size of the populations.

            Classic example of “don’t take everything you read on face value”. Citing big numbers sounds clever but it easily hides a lack of statistical understanding.

            I’m open to a source that is mathematically and statistically sound, but this ain’t it.

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        I doubt the teacher’s union has the resources of the church. Nor do they have the time-tested global systematic approach to abusing children, unless common core gotcha mad.