This is the title of a movie that I managed to get through last night. It was difficult because I kept getting client calls late into the night. Fortunately, it was a documentary so it wasn’t hard to watch a chapter and then not watch it for a bit.
The movie touches on the issue of the sexual abuse of children and the massive cover-ups that take place within the Roman Catholic church. I guess everyone knows this happens and jokes about it, but I wasn’t quite aware of how severe of a problem that there is.
The film estimates that there are approximately 100,000 victims of pedophilia within the U.S. It also estimates that 80% of victims will never come forward. That’s a fairly staggering number.
Worse, though, is that the Roman Catholic Church has aggressively denied and covered up the problem. In multiple instances they sent a known pedophile to other parishes to work with children and then paid these pedophiles to keep quiet about it. This goes all the way up to the current pope as he had direct involvement in some of the cover-ups. It’s estimated that the Church has spent over 1 BILLION dollars in legal fees and payouts to victims.
Worse yet…. It doesn’t appear that they’ve done anything to resolve the issue. I guess I never liked the idea of church very much in the first place, but this is pretty despicable by any standards of morality or civility.
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