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Thread ID: 6954 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-05-27
2003-05-27 21:23 | User Profile
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Rabbis and Sex Abuse Accusations: Jewish Leaders Begin Struggle to Combat Problem By Stephanie Saul Staff Writer
May 26, 2003, 8:10 PM EDT This is the first in a three-part series.
It was the sound of ripping cloth, they said, that woke them up.
On an August night in the Catskills, with summer camp almost over, the boys had fallen asleep in their bunkhouse, exhausted from play and religious study. Only minutes later, they would later testify in court, the noise awakened them. Then came mysterious movements in the dark cabin. The campers lay still. Why was a human figure hovering over the bed of a 10-year-old Woodmere boy?
The terrified boy blurted out his allegation to a camp counselor almost a day later: Someone, he said, had torn open the seat of his pajamas and sexually abused him.
The boy's parents were called to camp more than a day later, but police were not notified.
" ... In sheer numbers, the problem is unlikely to rival the Catholic Church's, since priests outnumber rabbis by roughly nine to one. While there is no data on the number of clergy with sexual disorders, experts say that, anecdotally, the problem does not seem as severe in the rabbinate as in the priesthood, even in relative terms.
Even so, some rabbis call the sexual abuse allegations a "crisis," and religious organizations are grappling with ways to handle it.
"We have a huge problem on our hands, a problem that is just beginning to be addressed in religious circles," Vicki Polin, a psychotherapist, said in recent testimony to the Maryland legislature."
I'd be willing to bet that on a percentage basis, the numbers regarding sexual abuse by rabbis is equal to or greater than that of priests. The numbers of homosexual attacks might be lower from the yahoodis, since rabbis can marry, but given their overrepresentation in other areas of sexual perversity, and fascination with everything scatological, the actual numbers would probably astound most people.
2003-05-27 21:30 | User Profile
Watch for Jew shysters to glom onto this one with the same zeal they employed going after Father McFeely.