Vatican comment on paedophiles draws gay groups' anger

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alekth said:

I'm not sure if the higher boys ratio is all that strange. Tried to do some research but sadly google isn't very quick to comb through about when mixed catholic schools were the norm - since the sexual abuse cases seem to start from the 1950s. The thing has probably been around for centuries anyway, and then it was for certain very severely limited to boys. Not exactly a tradition but who knows.

The fear of being reported might also be higher when girls are involved. In the last decades in the western world the stigma of reporting that as a girl/woman has been lessened. There is also the pregnancy issue (seriously couldn't find any data on whether, despite the Catholic church condemning them, there has been any use of condoms). According to wikipedia few of the victims were actually children, with most being teens (how old exactly, it's still argued), so that's also a possible issue.

Except that's not true. In the general population 90% of choldren abused are females. 90%. Young boys just get more attention in the media for whatever reason. The fact that it's 80% boys in the catholic church is VERY odd.