We thought we knew the script in the Catholic-priest sex-abuse scandal.
Both the victims and the perpetrators were male. But a recent story in The New York Timesseemed to suggest that this scenario ignored a whole segment of victims: young girls. The Times
reported on a Catholic priest who was permitted to move to India
instead of facing accusations of molesting two Minnesota girls.
Meanwhile, Slate's June Thomas asked,
"Is anyone else wondering if young women have been left out of this
story, and if there's some agenda that's driving that absence?" a
question that Andrew Sullivan’s readers have also been discussing. (Slate and NEWSWEEK are both owned by The Washington Post Company.)
http://www.newsweek.com/sex-abuse-church-girls-also-victimized-70741
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