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Percentages total more than 100 because some children counted under more than one type of abuse.
The story stunningly asserts that over the past 20 years, up to 2000 of 51,000 priests in the U.S. have been accused of sexual assault, and that Roman Catholic dioceses have shelled out $800 million since the 1980s in compensation for sexual abuse by priests.
Sexual abuse victims are then more likely to become teen-age mothers or drug abusers, increasing the chance that they'll have to go on welfare, and making it harder to get off the rolls once they do.
If it's drug abuse to take a pill simply to look virile, the piece wonders, why isn't it illegal to take one to become virile?
I have worked in this field for almost 30 years--first as a young prosecutor in New York City, later as the director of the HHS National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, and more recently as a trainer and consultant--and I know that child abuse and child neglect are profound national problems.