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Father Benedict Groeschel: You Have It Backwards, Those Kids Are Seducing US
"People have this picture in their minds of a person planning to [commit child molestation] a psychopath. But thats not the case. Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, and a youngster comes after him. A lot of the cases, the youngster 14, 16, 18 is the seducer.
"Well, its not so hard to see a kid looking for a father and didnt have his own and they wont be planning to get into heavy-duty sex, but almost romantic, embracing, kissing, perhaps sleeping but not having intercourse or anything like that.
"If you go back 10 or 15 years ago with different sexual difficulties except for rape or violence it was very rarely brought as a civil crime. Nobody thought of it that way....And Im inclined to think, on their first offense, they should not go to jail because their intention was not committing a crime." - Father Benedict Groeschel, of the Archdiocese of New York, speaking to the National Catholic Register.
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/08/father-benedict-groeschel-you-have-it.html
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)bastard.
that message is to father Benedict, still a dick. Not to the OP.
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)E_A_
(9 posts)OMG, unbelievable but not unusual. I have read of a peodophille blaming a two year old, saying that she wanted it because she was only wearing a DIAPER!
This guy is sick sick sick..............
And he totally ignores the fact that most peodophilles plan what they are going to do, and probably go into the priesthood in order to gain acess to kids.....
What a sick guy........
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)MineralMan
(146,333 posts)No, Father Groeschel, you're wrong. You're an adult. You're not being seduced. You're a child molester. If you do that, you're a criminal.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Good lord, what a piece of shit...
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)That is remarkably blatant. It should serve as a wakeup call for anyone who thinks the Catholic Church, as presently constituted, is not directly responsible for the sexual crimes committed by its clergy. They obviously tolerate and encourage this kind of thinking.
It can never be their fault. Because, you know, they have a Calling to do God's Work.
Blech.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)should be removed NOW
Initech
(100,104 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)sick pervs, or MAKING sick pervs by not allowing normal relationships, the way it is now.
justabob
(3,069 posts)What does a 14, 15, 16 year old know about seduction, first of all? 2... shouldn't an adult have the good sense (never mind strength of faith) to resist such temptations of the flesh? 3.... a man having a nervous breakdown should probably be released from parish duties and anything to do with kids generally.
I could go on, but that is enough to being getting on with.
librechik
(30,676 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Jeebus, the Mob has more honor and morality. I can't imagine the Mafia tolerating and covering for child molesters and they only whack their own.
Sick, sick, sick.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)unspeakable filth.
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)Not in your most pitiful, repulsive fantasies, "Father" Benedict.
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)Nikia
(11,411 posts)No matter how much they think the child is interested. If they have a problem with being tempted by children, they should get some help and avoid jobs that put them around children, especially as an authority figure. Instead these people seem to put themselves around children and teens as much as possible. Maybe seminaries, schools of education, youth organizations, and food service manager training needs to have a class or required seminar on this. While it might seem bad that this would need to be emphasized, there are too many adults working with children who use their position to rape them while claiming temptation.
FSogol
(45,529 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)we just can't.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)<<Groeschel is also a professor of pastoral psychology at St. Josephs Seminary of the Archdiocese of New York.<<
Just. Totally. Fucked. Up.