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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (3201)3/17/2002 9:46:57 AM
From: Poet  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
Hello JC,

What an enormous relief!

For those interested is a better understanding of this crisis in the Catholic Church, the Boston Globe has an excellent in-depth article today. This report suggests that "pedophilia" may not be an accurate characterization of the problem, inasmuch as as many as 90 percent of priest abusers target teenage boys as their victims, and incidents involving prepubescent children are rare.

I can't tell you how much better I feel to know that a Catholic priest using his standing and power to seduce, say, a fourteen year old isn't a crime as bad as pedophilia. I had no idea that seduction and rape by an authority figure after puberty was any less traumatic than before puberty.

Thanks for setting us straight.
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