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To: Lane3 who wrote (3217)	3/17/2002 10:14:41 AM
From: Poet	Respond to of 21057

Unfortunately, my instructions were not heeded. ;-( My focus was, and is still on the following: But others caution that there is no evidence suggesting that gay men are more likely to abuse teenagers than straight men. For example, Dr. Fred Berlin, founder of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma, said he is aware of no scientific data about how - or whether - the misconduct of gay priests with adolescent boys differs from that of the gay male population in general. Nor, he said, do gay and heterosexual adults appear to have different patterns of involvement with adolescents or younger children. ''There is no evidence that an adult gay male is any more likely to seek out a boy for sexual activities than would there be a likelihood of an adult heterosexual man seeking out a little girl for sexual activities,'' said Berlin, who, along with Finkelhor, was recently named to Cardinal Bernard F. Law's commission on preventing clergy sexual abuse. In the general public, the majority of adolescent sex abuse cases involve female victims. So why do boys seem to be victimized more frequently than girls by priests? Specialists say the answer is probably in part access: until recently, only boys were altar servers, for example.