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To: epicure who wrote (105427)	5/29/2005 5:12:57 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Sex Abuse by Teachers Said Worse Than Catholic Church Jon E. Dougherty, Newsmax Now, on the heels of the Catholic abuse scandal comes another of historic proportions—one that has the potential to be much greater and far-reaching. According to a draft report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education, in compliance with the 2002 "No Child Left Behind" act signed into law by President Bush, between 6 percent and 10 percent of public school children across the country have been sexually abused or harassed by school employees and teachers. Charol Shakeshaft, the Hofstra University scholar who prepared the report, said the number of abuse cases—which range from unwanted sexual comments to rape—could be much higher. "So we think the Catholic Church has a problem?" she told industry newspaper Education Week in a March 10 interview. To support her contention, Shakeshaft compared the priest abuse data with data collected in a national survey for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2000. Extrapolating data from the latter, she estimated roughly 290,000 students experienced some sort of physical sexual abuse by a school employee from a single decade—1991-2000. That compares with about five decades of cases of abusive priests. Such figures led her to contend "the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests." newsmax.com