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What About The Girls? Ctd

By The Daily Dish
Apr 17 2010, 9:47 AM ET

Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz keep the discussion going:

[W]hat has gotten scant attention is the fact that the female victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests tended to be younger than the males. Data analyzed by John Jay researchers, including Smith, shows that even though there were many more boy victims than girls overall, the number and proportion of sexual misconduct directed at girls under 8 years old was higher than that experienced by boys the same age. Specifically, between 1950 and 2002, there were 246 girls younger than 8 who were sexually abused by priests (representing 14 percent of all girl victims), compared with 236 boys (3 percent of all boy victims).

Previous Dish coverage here, here, here, and here.



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