Word: pedophilia
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...from?" In part from textbook National Front bigotry and fear tactics. During campaigning for the Gardois seat covering Saint-Gilles and Beaucaire last week, National Front candidate and Vauvert native Florence Berthezène handed out leaflets decrying "lynchings, rapes, theft of all kinds ... racketeering, drug dealing, prostitution [and] pedophilia." But the police official notes, "The last killing anyone recalls in Vauvert was of an Arab youth." Be that as it may, the French feel vulnerable - and want action. "Crime and feelings of insecurity are directly linked to immigration," Berthezène growls. "Immigrants who are here illegally...
This much, however, is clear: no mainstream research has found any link between pedophilia and homosexuality. And even in the current storm of scandal, no one knows whether there are any more pedophile priests than, say, pedophile teachers. And while the great majority of the victims who have recently come to public attention were teenage boys when they were abused, no one knows how many girls may also have been molested...
Thank you for the very first balanced and intelligent article on pedophilia I have read [SOCIETY, April 29]. Once we realize that it is a human problem and not just one for the Roman Catholic Church, we will be able to make progress in dealing with it. In the past, a calm, investigative approach has usually led to solutions to problems facing our society, and that method should work again with this one. (THE REV.) WILLIAM D. TURNBULL Stillwater...
...would almost certainly be raised and the total cost of the settlements would skyrocket. Despite the heavy financial burden this restitution would impose and the large number of other people who have accused clergymen, these victims deserve complete compensation; in many cases, the church knew about priests’ pedophilia and yet kept reassigning them to local churches, when any reasonable observer could determine that more children might be at risk. The archdiocese’s backpedaling after an agreement was reached appears to be just a dubious and underhanded attempt to relinquish its complicity in many of these crimes...
...Buddhism isn't the only religion plagued by scandals, Sulak notes, pointing to the pedophilia revelations rocking the Catholic Church. But with even prominent abbots involved in debauchery, there is often little the monk police can do. "They are well-intentioned," he says, "but some of the worst wrongdoers are more powerful than they are." Indeed, reformist monks are severely hampered by an insular, feudal clerical structure. "There's a lot of politics in the temple," says Sanitsuda...