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I believe the RC bishops paid half the cost. Which may be why the study looks at individual misbehavior but gives short shrift to institutional corruption. Why did the bishops keep moving the abusers from parish to parish and giving them access to new victims.

I have a friend who was abused as an altar boy and when he sued the diocese, he was subjected to more than eight hours of grueling cross-examination as if HE were guilty of something besides trying to get come shekels for the horror he had been put through. When the class-action settlement was finally announced years later, the diocese tried to announce it on the anniversary of 9/11 so there would be very little media coverage of the settlement. Thank God the victims' lawyer refused to stand for that.

I also wonder about the finding that most of the cases occurred before 1990. Is that because cases after 1990 have not all surfaced yet? Look at what is happening in Philadelphia now.

"94% of all cases occurred before 1990."

What! So you're basically saying that the news and media took the situation and blew it out of proportion to sell a story?

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...Just like they do with everything else from school shootings, to racism, to pedophiles, to Charlie Sheen, and to famous people dying...

As H. L. Mencken once said.
"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."

This report seems more aligned with the sex abusers and the Catholic church than with innocent children. Seems another ploy to: 1. Take the focus off of abused children, 2. Take the focus off of boy victims, 3. Take the focus off of the elements of the Catholic church and religion that support this type of abuse and violation against children, 4. Disguise that pedophilia is NOT just adults who target pre-pubescent children (regardless of what the DSM says. The DSM is a consensus only manual. It once stated that homosexuality was a mental illness). There are pedophiles that have long histories of targeting teens, and 5. Disguise that a sex crime against a child is a sex crime, regardless of whether they want to call the perps "pedophiles" or not! 6. Oh, and they made a sexist comment implying that only men are dangerous sexual predators. In my professional opinion, female predators are more dangerous because no one suspects them. Talk to anyone who was sexually abused by a nun or a female school teacher and tried to get someone to take them seriously.

This report seems more aligned with the sex abusers and the Catholic church than with innocent children. Seems another ploy to: 1. Take the focus off of abused children, 2. Take the focus off of boy victims, 3. Take the focus off of the elements of the Catholic church and religion that support this type of abuse and violation against children, 4. Disguise that pedophilia is NOT just adults who target pre-pubescent children (regardless of what the DSM says. The DSM is a consensus only manual. It once stated that homosexuality was a mental illness). There are pedophiles that have long histories of targeting teens, and 5. Disguise that a sex crime against a child is a sex crime, regardless of whether they want to call the perps "pedophiles" or not! 6. Oh, and they made a sexist comment implying that only men are dangerous sexual predators. In my professional opinion, female predators are more dangerous because no one suspects them. Talk to anyone who was sexually abused by a nun or a female school teacher and tried to get someone to take them seriously.

I am a victim of clergy abuse, and I an an advocate for abused children. 95% of abuse cases in the church are not reported to police, or filed in lawsuits. The John Jay study is grossly innaccurate, as it does not take this important fact into consideration. You fail to mention that the other groups that are compared to, such as boy scouts, etc, do not have thousands upon thousands of shuffled known predators sent to other locations by the leaders, and hierarchy, such as what has happened in the catholic church. The hierarchy who assisted the predators in the church are also still in power,which is not the case in the other groups compared to.The church has paid 3 billion dollars in the last 10 years for sex abuse cases involving children, no other organization comes remotely close to this. No tweeked report influenced by the catholic church leaders, such as the John Jay report, will change the horrific history of the church, the facts brought out in thousands of court cases are documented. It is a shame that the church, and the John Jay study continue to try to pull the wool over the public eyes.

- Joey Piscitelli

CONFLICT OF INTEREST, ACADEMIC INTEGRITY, ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
re the recently released John Jay College study on clergy sexual abuse:

I discovered that a long-time newsreporter at the New York Catholic newspaper was in the Masters Program at John Jay during the time of this study and as a matter of fact, her thesis had the same focus as that of the USCCB sponsored study. Interestingly, her monitor/supervisor for her these was the principal investigator for the USCCB’s study, Dr. Karen Terry. If you check out Dr. Terry’s curriculum vitae on her own personal website, you will find this newsreporter’s name.

http://www.karenterry.org/ktcv.pdf

And then this same news reporter has been covering the release of the USCCB report and the press conference in Washington, DC. I would like to know if the NY archdiocese paid for her masters program at John Jay.

Given the relationship between the Archdiocese of New York through the news reporter at its Catholic newspaper and the fact that the archdiocesan’s news reporter’s master level research was being supervised by the principal investigator in the USCCB directed study, are there any concerns regarding the objectivity, fairness, and professionalism of the research conducted in this report?

NOTE: The concerns and issues raised above were shared with the operator of this blog, Dr. Thomas Plante.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST, ACADEMIC INTEGRITY, ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
re the recently released John Jay College study on clergy sexual abuse:

I discovered that a long-time newsreporter at the New York Catholic newspaper was in the Masters Program at John Jay during the time of this study and as a matter of fact, her thesis had the same focus as that of the USCCB sponsored study. Interestingly, her monitor/supervisor for her these was the principal investigator for the USCCB’s study, Dr. Karen Terry. If you check out Dr. Terry’s curriculum vitae on her own personal website, you will find this newsreporter’s name.

http://www.karenterry.org/ktcv.pdf

And then this same news reporter has been covering the release of the USCCB report and the press conference in Washington, DC. I would like to know if the NY archdiocese paid for her masters program at John Jay.

Given the relationship between the Archdiocese of New York through the news reporter at its Catholic newspaper and the fact that the archdiocesan’s news reporter’s master level research was being supervised by the principal investigator in the USCCB directed study, are there any concerns regarding the objectivity, fairness, and professionalism of the research conducted in this report?

NOTE: The concerns and issues raised above were shared with the operator of this blog, Dr. Thomas Plante.

As one of the victims of this epidemic of child sexual exploitation I find it mind boggling that no mention was made of the serious methodological problems that make the John Jay studies at best dangerously misleading.

At the core of the problems is the data set used. The study is based entirely on figures supplied by catholic bishops. They only include officially acknowledged abuse, a tiny subset of actual abuse, and were welcome to remove any cases they didn't want to include, with no reason given for their exclusion. Catholic bishops regularly dismiss unwanted claims from victims that even their own investigators have upheld. There is no independent oversight of whether or not the data is anywhere near complete or rather a complete downward fabrication designed to produce the frankly unbelievable and remarkably convenient very same conclusion that the bishops themselves are trying to force everyone to repeat mindlessly. That they are no worse, and possibly better, than other organisations.

The most dangerous aspect of this claim is that they are treating a small portion of abuse as if it is the entire incidence of abuse and then comparing this almost meaningless, highly doctored construct with unrelated statistics from other organisations.

There are numerous judicial investigations and official reports from many different countries that prove catholic bishops routinely and callously sacrifice innocent children to protect their own selfish interests, that they lie about this issue all the time, claiming to have revealed details of all local rapists, while actually still hiding numerous dangerous predators from police, allowing them to continue to find new prey. The most recent studies prove they are still doing it today, despite claims to have improved, learned their lesson, to now know more about this issue and other excuses. They have been repeatedly caught red handed lying to victims, families, congregations, and proudly boasting of lying to law enforcement to protect rapist priests from justice.

The studies were 100% funded by catholic organisations, many of them hard line, and the second study reaches conclusions that are simply pulled from the bishops excuse book and have no relationship whatsoever to the data.

The second study even baldly contradicts the first study, which notes that only a minority of victims report abuse while still a child and that it is very common to take 30 years or longer to report church abuse. This information is completely at odds with the unsupported claim in the latest report that abuse is largely in the past, an issue it will be impossible to accurately assess for another 30 years.

The John Jay Jokers Report on Clergy Abuse

We would like to thank all the Catholic Institutions who paid for this study by pouring money into our bank accounts, buying us gifts, contributing to our “needs”, and
padding our trust funds. The JJ Club.

The Causes and Context of the Almost Unheard of - Sexual Abuse of Minors- by Holy Priests Who Are Nearly Always Falsely Accused

Acknowledging the Generous Catholic Bishops Who Bought Us

This is a neutral report, and is not influenced in any way by the vast amount of money dumped on us by Catholic Bishops. Those bishops, we should mention, have never shuffled or protected any clergy abusers; and all of the supposed clergy victims who were claiming to be molested, that we investigated - were found to be liars.
Nevertheless, we did this study, and it was extremely difficult to find any Catholic priests who were actually pedophiles. Nearly every priest that we asked, “Are you a pedophile?”, said “No”.
Our study showed that most priests are “situational generalists”, which could mean a lot of things. Although we generally use that term for situations that are general, it is generally a situational and convenient general term to situationally confuse parents and victims advocates, generally, because we are doctors with PhD's, and most of the stupid naive public can't hold up to our intellectual level. So generally the situation was caused by situational generalists.
Usually we found that most priests who were accused of sex abuse were set up by vindictive boys who had disturbed criminal minds; and concocted stories to gain money from the innocent clergy.
Nearly every bishop that was accused of having knowledge of sexually abusive clergy was also being wrongfully taken advantage of by slick lawyers; and our survey found that the real victims in the crisis were actually the priests and hierarchy of the church. Most of these priests and bishops are expected to become saints, and nearly all of them are martyrs for God.
Methodology
The research group could not find any reason a Catholic priest would violate a lying child. It was difficult to find any accuser who was honest, and the only honest people we interviewed were holy priests. Our conclusion was that nearly all children will fib about sexual abuse to gain attention.

Findings
No single cause was found for a priest to sexually abuse minors, because priests have taken a vow of celibacy; and that was substantial proof that they had no reason to abuse kids.
Individual Psychological Factors
Less than 1 percent of priests are pedophiles, so it is inaccurate to refer to priests as pedophiles.
Priests accused of pedophilia are most probably innocent.
The majority of priests sent to treatment facilities the catholic church has all over the country, were sent there for no reason, and most of the facilities are empty of course, because there are practically no pedophiles at all in the church.
Any priest who admitted to having a sexual relationship with a child was found to be mistaken; or forced to do so against his will.
Most children are prone to picking on clergy because they are rotten children , and predominantly immature brats.
Summary
It is wise to tell children who claim they have been abused to shut up, because they may damage the reputation of an exemplary priest.

Understanding Sex Abuse in Society
Our study found that most abusers in society are actually pregnant moms in their last trimester, girl scouts, paraplegic white heterosexual males, and blind people over the age of 95. Other abusers are most likely lawyers who represent false accusers of clergy, bunny rabbits, and red cross workers in third world countries. It is highly unlikely that a priest would fit into any of these categories.

Understanding Sex Abuse in Religious Institutions
Our study found that it is extremely difficult to even imagine one single instance of sexual abuse in a religious institution, and we were baffled as to why anyone on earth could think of such a preposterous thing like that.

Understanding Sex Abuse in Families
Most families are guilty of teaching their children to target innocent priests, so the real causation of sex abuse claims are most likely to occur in families, and it is best to put the blame on parents when a clergy abuse claim is made against an unsuspecting priest.

Why is There a Sexual Abuse Problem in the Catholic Church?
The reason there is a sexual abuse problem in the catholic church is mostly because of the media hysteria. The media invents stories of priest abuse for sensationalism. Sick people who are not clergy then pick up on this hysteria, and then fabricate stories of sexual abuse that never happened. The other reason is monetary gain by children who are obsessed with material wealth.

Incidences of Abuse Claims
Although more than 99% of abuse claims are obviously false claims by people who hate the church, and are most probably sick atheists, and disturbed kids, and older men who are criminals, there have been some isolated claims reported through the years anyway.
Our best estimate for real claims is:
1950's – 2 claims
1960's – 2 claims
1970's – 3 claims
1980's – 1 claim
1990's – 1 claim
2000's – 0 claims.
Most claims we investigated were found to be against priests who never even existed, or were dead over a hundred years ago. The solution to the problem is to have church lawyers sue any alleged victim, and take action against the accusers families, who are most probably instigating the false accusations.
Graphs
If there was a graph on this page, that graph would clearly show that all people who accuse clergy of abuse are delusional liars.

Homosexuality
Our team has discovered that most homosexuals are probably the cause of a great deal of false accusations against priests; and also the cause of most problems on earth. Accusers usually take out their sexual frustrations on defensless priests, because priests are easy targets. This must be caused by homosexuals, in one way or another. Homosexuals should not be allowed to vote, or work anywhere in the USA.

Conclusion
It is going to be difficult to eradicate the cause of the clergy abuse crisis, as kids are becoming more sophisticated with computers and I-phones, etc. The technology of today has enabled vindictive greedy kids to learn how to create false stories, and false memories, and to prey on innocent clergy of the holy church. Detestable children should be kept under supervision, and away from harming vulnerable priests. Because priests are so vulnerable, and god-like, they are more prone to being victimized by evil children, and their greedy lawyers, and wicked parents.
The statute of limitations for clergy abuse claims should be changed to one week, and the penalty for filing false claims should be substantial. Almost all accusations against priests are false, and all documents that supposedly prove priests and bishops have been involved in pedophelia, are fabricated by frauds. Laws have to be enacted to protect priests, bishops and cardinals, and the hierarchy of the church should be made immune to prosecution in all 50 states.
This concludes the non-biased independent John Jay Report on clergy child abuse-which does not really exist; and never did.