Religion

I'm betting there have been such abortions from time to time. We just don't hear about them.

Most of the news of Priest child sexual abuse seems to focus on abuse of boys, but it happens with girls, too. It may be reported less often in those cases. I don't know.

What's heartening to me is that this priest was arrested and charged in our courts. He wasn't just shuffled off to some other diocese or something. I think that's progress, at least. There are many, many stores of Protestant ministers being arrested for sex crimes, but damned few of priests being arrested.

I've always found that interesting.

My interest in sexual abuse of children by pastors and priests goes back to my own teen years. A youth pastor at the church I attended was caught in the act with a 14-year-old girl in the church basement. He was sent away to another town somewhere, and never prosecuted. The girl's family soon moved out of town, due to the shame of it all.

I knew the girl. She was a very shy, very unhappy person. The youth pastor used that to coax her into sex with him. It pissed me off then, and it still pisses me off. He should have been arrested and tried for his crime. Instead, he got off scot-free. It was a shameful thing for that church to do.