So all in all you're going to want to multiply the number
of abuse cases by priests by a factor of at least a few hundred to represent the actual risk ratio for spending time with an individual priest vs. a teacher.
Not exact matches
In Michigan, it is a misdemeanor punishable
by up to three months in jail and a $ 500 fine for certain professionals to fail to report a suspected
case of child
abuse.
In early January, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) published regulations that limit the number
of commercial banks in which each investor can own holdings, which is intended to reduce specific
cases of «disorder» in the banking sector, such as the
abuse of rights
by major shareholders and the existence
of «invisible shareholders».
A detailed weekend report
by the New York Times, for example, states that «members
of the royal family, and relatives, advisers and associates
of the detainees» say those who were kidnapped were coerced and physically
abused in some
cases, and that billions
of dollars in private wealth were transferred to Crown Prince's Mohammed's control.
Thursday on Fox News Channel's «The Ingraham Angle,» Rep. Jim Jordan (R - OH) made the
case that a second special counsel was warranted given allegations
of abuse of the FISA warrants
by FBI officials.
Vatican refuses to give UN panel full details
of clerical se - x
abuse cases Holy See angers campaigners
by not disclosing information requested
by UN committee on the rights
of the child
One major reason that the military should not turn
cases of military - to - military sex
abuse, is that we have a right to be judged
by our peers... who understand what the mil life does to the human mind.
Since the story as seems to be bigger than just «Osama being used and
abused» but it was always every crime made
by inelegance or the crime world was tagged to him being behind it... even those who wanted to collect the insurance
of their buildings the blew them up and tagged it to the late, even those who enjoyed the fluctuations
of shares prices have made their moves to effect the same and tagging it to the late... It is not that i know but rather being every thing is possible to fabricate... What ever the
case might be or made done, we say; Believers: The Ultimate Victors [2:216] Fighting may be imposed on you, even though you dislike it.
In a statement read out
by Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi in September 2009, the Holy See stated «We know now that in the last 50 years somewhere between 1.5 % and 5 %
of the Catholic clergy has been involved in s — exual
abuse cases», adding that this figure was comparable with that
of other groups and denominations.
Bishops are required to cooperate - if approached
by law enforcement - but are ALSO still under direction to keep silence on
cases of abuse they learn about, and NOT to turn over priests to civil authorities.
And in other news, the New York ultra-orthodox Jewish community has been enjoying their own version
of a huge child -
abuse scandal with over 85
cases of child
abuse and also enjoying special treatment
by the prosecutor's office in refusing to release the names
of the convicted criminals in those
cases!
While there were also a significant number
of abuse cases involving parish priests in Ireland, another major scandal involved criminal
abuse committed
by members
of religious orders working in Catholic - run institutions such as orphanages and reform schools.
Allegations
of s — exual
abuse by clergy have been made in many countries (see Roman Catholic sex
abuse cases by country).
It is vitally important to recognise the truth, whenever the topic
of sexual
abuse is discussed, that there have been many
cases of such evil and the cover - up
of it
by individual Priests, Bishops and others in various Catholic dioceses in the world.
The review found the Church acted in good faith and that it was right to acknowledge
cases of sexual
abuse committed
by the clergy.
My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this
case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety
of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches
of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out
abuse demonstrated
by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?
Wesolowski's
case provides a high - profile chance for the Pope, who has been accused
by some victims» groups
of downplaying the sexual
abuse scandal, to take concrete action against one
of the Vatican's own.
Not to diminish the seriousness
of women's
abuse by spouses, but they face the same thing in the workplace, in my
case, education.
The complainant did not pursue the allegation again until 2012 after several high - profile
cases of historical sexual
abuse by church figures had broken in Australia and the US, as well as the Jimmy Savile scandal.
«The Church, understandably concerned not to repeat the mistakes
of the past when it had been too slow to recognise that
abuse had been perpetrated
by clergy and to recognise the pain and damage caused to victims, has in effect oversteered in this
case.
Following the review's publication, Bishop Peter Hancock, the Church
of England's lead safeguarding bishop, said: «At the heart
of this
case was a judgment, on the balance
of probabilities, as to whether, in the event that her claim for compensation reached trial, a court would have concluded that Carol was
abused by Bishop Bell.
«Anybody would have been able to perfectly learn about it
by simply asking for the dossier (
of sexual
abuses cases).
According to the book, the Vatican had knowledge
of multiple
cases of sexual
abuse committed
by Maciel decades ago, but church authorities chose to do nothing about it.
Members
of the group SNAP (The Survivors Network
of Those
Abused by Priests) planned to hold signs and hand out flyers urging Roman Catholic cardinals to stop making symbolic gestures about
abuse and instead meet with victims and give
case files to the authorities.
A 1997 letter from the Vatican's representative to bishops in Ireland warns them to follow church law in investigating
cases of suspected child sex
abuse by priests and expresses «serious reservations» about requiring that such
cases be reported to the police.
Furthermore,
by characterizing allegations
of child
abuse as a sad
case of «disunity» and «strife» within the church and urging his fellow Christians not to ask too many questions about the situation, Challies only perpetuates the painfully common narrative that those who raise concerns about
abuse in churches are troublemakers, out to sow disunity and dissention, and that we are wise to keep this matters quiet.
The two - page letter, written
by Apostolic Nuncio Luciano Storero, was sent to bishops in Ireland in response to a document they had sent to the Vatican that recommends mandatory reporting
of cases of suspected child sex
abuse by priests.
In the
case of religious expression, having a government authority like a school district
abuse their authority
by forcing the graduating class to listen to only one religious viewpoint and prayer is reprehensible from a legal standpoint regardless
of what corrupt judge you find to rule differently.
I have come belatedly to see, in my own
case, that my hermeneutical passion is largely propelled
by the fact that my father was a pastor who was economically
abused by the church he served,
abused as a means
of control.
The book, «La Voluntad de no Saber» (Willing Not to be Aware), chronicles multiple
cases of sexual
abuse of minors committed
by Marcial Maciel, a Mexican - born Roman Catholic priest who was influential at the Vatican.
Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out
of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention
of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out
of three and one boy out
of seven are sexually
abused by age 18, and that in half the
cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically
abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are
abused every year
by their adult children.
For the first time ever data relating to reported
cases of Child
Abuse Linked to Faith or Belief has been released
by the Government.
Yes, there are, sad to say, some
cases of priestly sex
abuse that have been proved to be true in a court
of law or have been admitted
by perpetrators.
This is the result
of an investigation
by a retired FBI agent looking into
abuse cases.
Absent such a change in canon law, a bishop seeking to dismiss a priest will have to convince a canon court that the
case warrants dismissal, and thus the zero tolerance policy amounts to nothing more than a declaration
by the bishops that, because in their view all
cases of sexual
abuse warrant dismissal from the clerical state, they intend to seek this penalty in all
cases.
The
cases of priestly
abuse should be treated on a
case —
by —
case basis according to Catholic canon law and most
of all according to Christian charity.
Anybody care that out
of 70million Catholics and 45,000 priests there were only 6 substantiated
cases of abuse last year
by anyone on the payroll
of the Catholic Church in the US.
Filling a young mind with such nonsense, and worse, uprooting thier lives, subjecting them to the criticism
of their peers, abandoning their futures, and in some
cases,
abusing them
by telling them «they will not be saved», is beyond the pale and to me, boarders on child
abuse.
... So where was this «conference
of Bishops» the last couple
of years when thousands
of new
abuse cases were discovered committed
by their own priests?
The term originally derives, however, from the title
of an Austrian Novel, Masoch, written in the nineteenth century
by von Sacher, and describing in detail the
case of one whose abnormal sexual appetite and passion find satisfaction in exquisite
abuse by his partner.
CNN: Deliberations continue in Catholic child
abuse cover - up
case Deliberations resume Monday in Philadelphia in the landmark trial
of Monsignor William Lynn, the highest - ranking cleric charged with endangering children
by allegedly helping cover up sexual
abuse.
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.»
When have you ever allowed the FACTS about the billions
of dollars paid to victims
of the RCC s & x
abuse scandal around the WORLD, not some isolted
case, ever stopped you from defending the cover up
by the hierarchy
of the church.
While it is true that most positions
of authority are held
by men it is not always the
case that men are the abusers or women are innocent victims
of abuse.
In a statement, read out
by Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi in September 2009, the Holy See stated «We know now that in the last 50 years somewhere between 1.5 % and 5 %
of the Catholic clergy has been involved in se -
abuse cases,» adding that this figure was comparable with that
of other groups and denominations.
The Survivors Network
of those
Abused by Priests (SNAP) says documents obtained from an alleged victim in a Florida civil
case show that authorities in Pennsylvania and New York should investigate retired Roman Catholic Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua.
But in no
case did the canny Froben, warned
by Erasmus, print his name as printer, nor did Wolfgang Capito his assistant put his name to the fervent Introduction he had written: «Here you have the theological works
of the Reverend Martin Luther, whom many consider a Daniel sent at length in mercy
by Christ to correct
abuses and restore a theology based on the Gospel and Paul...»
It concerns the
case of the terrible and tragic
abuse,
by a Milwaukee priest Lawrence Murphy
of many 14 - 15 year old deaf boys (and at least one 12 year old) over many years whilst they were away from the protection
of their parents.
Amnesty International has uncovered «systemic»
cases of child labour and labour rights
abuses in Indonesian palm oil plantations operated
by Wilmar, tracing the palm oil back to firms including Nestlé, Unilever and Kellogg — companies that all claim to...
At the same conference ACCC chairman, Rod Sims, indicated that the ACCC's investigation into treatment
of suppliers
by the major supermarkets has been delayed until around March 2014 (view speech and press release) and Senator Xenophon once again argued for divestiture laws in
abuse of power
cases.