Reply #23: True, we may have to wait and see

[marshall]

http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/PriestAbuseScandal.htm

This website purports to give a study produced by John Jay College that is very interesting.

My idea about parents not leaving their children alone with priests (and note that the study says over forty percent of the abuse takes place in the priest's home) is anecdotal. My brother lives in Ireland and he told me a few years ago (when the US was in the throes of the beginning of its priest sex abuse) that people he spoke to in Ireland thought it was remarkably naive and foolish for American parents to leave their children unaccompanied with a priest.