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The report was presented by a group of researchers from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and was commissioned by the bishops group after determining the need for an outside group to review not only the scope of the Catholic sexual abuse crisis in the United States but to try to determine the cause.
The bad news is there is no test to give to seminarians to screen out abusers, said the Rev. Thomas Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University who read the report. We re going to have to be vigilant. We re going to have to continue to have programs to educate both priests and clergy, but also for kids and parents so that the opportunities for abuse are severely restricted.
As the researchers prepared to speak to the press at U.S. Conference vacation rentals york beach maine of Bishops headquarters in Washington, vacation rentals york beach maine Becky Ianni stood outside, holding a picture vacation rentals york beach maine of herself vacation rentals york beach maine as a young girl. A victim herself, and Virginia and Washington director of the group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), she criticized the report and said she felt it minimized her suffering.
Ianni had not yet read the full report but closely followed early press reports about its contents. It concentrated on the priests but didn t cover the bishops who were the enablers, those who allowed those priests to move from parish to parish, vacation rentals york beach maine those that covered up the abuse, she said.
This was the second of two reports by John Jay College on the sexual abuse epidemic that has plagued the church. The first report, Nature and Scope, was released vacation rentals york beach maine in 2004 and examined the breadth of the problem. This report, The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010, examined why it happened.
While the researchers vacation rentals york beach maine acknowledged the crisis of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests is a historical problem, they said the scope of their investigation began in 1950 because of better access to people and documents. Information pertaining to prior incidents was nearly impossible to gather, they said.
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The abuse is a result of a complex interaction of factors, and there are number of social forces that were taking place in the 1960s and the 1970s that had an effect on a certain number of priests who had vulnerabilities that might have led to that abusive behavior, said Karen Terry, the lead investigator from John Jay College, at a press conference about the study.
They also were trained in seminary at a time when there was no adequate preparation to live a life of chaste celibacy and they were not sufficiently able to handle those complex social forces that were taking place, she said. The report found that celibacy was not the cause of the crisis, she added.
In regard to social upheaval, Diane Knight, the chair of the report s National Review Board, a group of lay Catholics who helped oversee the study, said, I want to emphasize that none of the information included in this report should be interpreted vacation rentals york beach maine as making excuses for the terrible acts of abuse that occurred. There are no excuses.
Since the crisis broke publicly in the late 1980s, vacation rentals york beach maine there were many inside and outside the church who had suggested the abusing priests were gay or pedophiles or both. The report spends significant time on both issues.
Very few of them were driven vacation rentals york beach maine by a pathological attraction to a type of child and instead what we see is priest abusers are very much like sex offenders in the general population and many of them regress to the abuse of minors in certain time periods, Terry said. What we also see is opportunities for them to abuse really played a critical role in who they chose to abuse.
The figure cited in the report - that 5% of abusing priests were pedophiles vacation rentals york beach maine - came from analysis of files from three treatment facilities that had treated abuser priests. There the mental health providers determined how many of the priests had met the guidelines for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) definition of pedophilia. The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric Association and is used by mental health professionals to diagnose mental disorders.
Another issue the report pointed to was seminary education for priests. Terry said where a priest went to seminary had no direct correlation to whether or not they became an abuser. When a priest went to seminary played a much larger role.
The human formation curriculum, added in 1992, is correlated with a low incidence of reported sexual abuse, the report said. The church vacation rentals york beach maine added the new component to help better equip priests to live a chaste, celibate life.
Their investigation showed many of the accused priests were treated by mental health professionals, who deemed the priests rehabilitated, vacation rentals york beach maine and they were returned to ministry. She pointed out this was commonplace. The claims of the efficacy of psychological treatment for sex offenders were not unusual at the time.
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Bishop Blase Cupich, the chair of the Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People for the bishops conference, said, Bishops reassigned priests on the basis of receiving reports those priests were rehabilitated. That was the science of the day. ... That was a mistake. vacation rentals york beach maine It was a bad mistake shared by a group of professionals, shared across the board in mental health vacation rentals york beach maine care as well as bishops. We know better now and that sort of thing should not continue today.
While the church established guidelines in response to the crisis in the mid-1990s, which included complying with the obligations of civil law regarding reporting of the incident and cooperating with the investigation, the investigators found that often did not happen. Diocesan leaders were more likely to respond to the sexual abuse allegations within the institution, using investigation, evaluation, and administrative leave rather than external mechanisms of the criminal law. Many diocesan leaders actions were not transparent to those outside the church, the report states.
The investigators said despite the decline in abuse instances and church vacation rentals york beach maine leaders vigor in tackling abuse cases, the church must increase the level of transparency with respect to their response to this problem.
Doyle said the church is still too insular institutionally when it comes to dealing with sex abuse allegations and she did not think the report went far enough to challenge that. The church has not done enough since the crisis came to light, she said.
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Cupich and Terry both noted that abuse instances had continued their downward trajectory since 1985 and there were far fewer instances of abuse in recent years, although reports from prior years still continue to emerge. But with dioceses still struggling with the fallout and new cases emerging, like the massive case in the Archdiocese in Philadelphia, Cupich said he recognized more needed to be done.
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