Uttamasloka sent; Number of Priests Accused of Sexually Abusing Children As Reported by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops with Numbers of Persons Alleging Abuse

[Tamohara dasa ADMIN.]

Number of Priests Accused of Sexually Abusing Children
As Reported by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
with Numbers of Persons Alleging Abuse

Compiled by BishopAccountability.org
From reports commissioned by the USCCB
March 28, 2014

As of March 28, 2014, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has counted 6,427 clerics "not implausibly" and "credibly" accused in the period 1950-2013 of sexually abusing minors. The USCCB total omits allegations made in 2003.

The USCCB has counted 17,259 victims who have alleged that they were abused as minors by priests. The USCCB totals omit persons who made allegations in 2003.

Read the whole report here:

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AtAGlance/USCCB_Yearly_Data_on_Accused_Priests.htm

If any other group had so many egregious transgressions of human behavior they would have been scorned and dismantled forever, but somehow the catholic church keeps on going. So much for being religious and serving God. And don't think for a second that any of this has stopped.