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The Catholic sex abuse scandal was never about the actual abuse, which is presumed constant between religions. It was always about the coverup. Only the Catho
by BeFlatXIII 2y ago
The Catholic sex abuse scandal was never about the actual abuse, which is presumed constant between religions. It was always about the coverup. Only the Catholic Church has the preexisting organization to pull off such a scandal; the others simply had controversial youth pastors who stopped showing up one day.
- pjlegato 2y agoIf there were any other groups with an organization capable of pulling off coverups, we'd never know about it, because they would have covered it up.
- anon291 2y agoI'm not talking about youth pastors. I'm talking about foster care (Germany) and public schooling in the US [1] [2] [3] and lots of other places. [1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oversight-failures-allow-sexually-abusive-teachers-quietly-move-school-to-school/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oversight-failures-allow-sexual... [2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/has-media-ignored-sex-abuse-in-school/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/has-media-ignored-sex-abuse-in-... [3] https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/report.pdf https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/...