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sexual revolution, the cause of pedophilia in priests: study

The New York Times published this week information about a study of five-year, commissioned by bishops from the Vatican to give a definitive answer to the reason that caused the sexual abuse crisis of the Catholic Church has concluded that these events occurred by priests poorly prepared and monitored and they were under stress due to social and sexual turmoil of the mid-sixties and seventies.

The report "causes and context of sexual abuse of children by parents católicos en los Estados Unidos, 1950 -2002″, es el segundo que producen los investigadores del John Jay College. El primero fue sobre la naturaleza y el enfoque sobre este problema, el cual fue publicado en 2004.

Los conocidos casos de abusos sexuales de menores cometidos por curas crecieron exactamente during those decades was that found in this study. The problem worsened when the church hierarchy responded by showing more concern for the perpetrators than the victims.

The explanation "blaming Woodstock" has been used by bishops since the church was caught in the scandal in the United States in 2002 and by Pope Benedict XVI after he broke into Europe in 2010.

However, this study seems considered the most respected on the scandal of the Catholic Church in America. The study, begun in 2006, was conducted by a group of researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice the city of New York at a cost of $ 1.8 million. Half of that amount was provided by the bishops, with additional money donated by Catholic organizations and foundations. The National Institute of Justice United States, the Research Agency of the Department of Justice gave $ 280 000.

The report was released Wednesday by Catholic Bishops in Washington , but the Seligión News Service published a report on study since Tuesday. The bishops said they expect the report to advance the understanding and prevention of child abuse in society.

The researchers concluded that it is not possible for the church-or to anyone, previously identified abusive priests. The priests who abused children do not have specific psychological characteristics, histories and personality disorders that distinguish particular cures have committed abuses, according to this study.

Since the scandal came to light, conservatives have gay priests accused of committing abuses, while liberals have argued that the whole culture of male delibato parish was the cause. This report is not very agreeable to any position.

The report notes that companies keep gay men to enter seminaries in significant numbers since the end of the seventies and during the eighties. By the time that this group entered the church in the eighties, records of child sexual abuse made by priests began to fall and then ended.

If something says the report is that the abuses diminished as more gay priests came to serve the Catholic church.

Many more boys than girls were victimized, according to the report, not because the perpetrators were gay, but because they simply had more access to boys than girls in parishes, schools and extracurricular activities.

findings in one of the most contrary to expectations, the report says that less than 5% of the priests who committed child abuse showed a pedophile behavior, defined as a psychiatric disorder characterized with recurrent fantasies, desires and behavior with an interest in young lambs.

This finding may be controversial, partly because the report defines prepubertal children under 10 years. Using this division, the report finds that only 22% of abused children were prepubertal

Finding That is likely to Prove controversial, in part Because the report employs a definition of "prepubescent" children as Those age 10 and under. Using this cutoff, the report found That only 22 Percent of the Priests' Victims Were prepubescent.

The Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic U.S. and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classified as a prepubescent child is under 13 years. If John Jay researchers have used in this study the same division, have found that the vast majority of victims of abuse had been prepubertal.

Even before him, the lawyers of the victims attacked Report on suspicion based on information provided by the Church.

In Philadelphia, where a jury found in February that 37 parents suspected of sexual abuse or misconduct are still serving in the ministry. The archdiocese initially rejected the findings of the jury, but soon suspended 26 priests.