What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of
clerical sex
abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the
sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths
who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child
sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these
abuse acts are a small percentage of all child
sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»