Re:After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on
by AlecSchueler on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:37AM
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Is it really far out to put catholicism in there? More than 5% of catholic priests in the US between 1950 and 2002 were involved in sexual abuse cases. We know that sexual abuse numbers are vastly underreported and we can imagine that the religious/community aspects make it even more difficult.
In Ireland the church even operated mass graves for the children they neglected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_c...
Also putting Islam, Catholicism, and LDS in the same list as the others would be like me putting similarly more mainstream Orthodox Jews in that list, just because of some cases of organ trafficking[0] or a "child rape assembly line"[1] in a few churches, or circumcision (which is viewed as genital mutilation in most of the world). And the careful adoption of technology (which I admire for the same reason as Amish). So not really appropriate to cluster more mainstream with the marginal cults side-by-side like that because it's disproportionate.
According to Charol Shakeshaft, the researcher behind the 2004 US Department of Education study[2] (if you can find a newer one, I'd like to see it), educators likely do 10-100x the abuse as priests. She's appeared on Oprah and NPR.
[0][https://www.smh.com.au/world/organ-trafficking-rabbis-arrest...
[1]https://www.vice.com/en/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-assemb...
[2]https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/...