I found two interesting facts when I looked up statistics on child molestation.
First, as of June 30, 2020, according to a report conducted for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops done by StoneBridge Business Partners of Rochester, New York, there were more than 4,200 allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy and others. The report was released in compliance with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ own “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People”.
When the final report was released in November of that year, it stated that 3,924 child sexual abuse survivors filed 4,228 allegations.
Before people do all kinds of math to figure out the average yearly amount of such activity over a few decades, the report only covers those allegations reported during the year from July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020, not years or decades. Although some of the offenses filed that year covered events from the previous years and decades, 22 allegations involve current cases.
22 is not an acceptable number.
Of those 22 current allegations filed, 6 were substantiated as having occurred in five dioceses.
At the time of the report’s release, of the remainder, seven were still being investigated, two had been found to be unsubstantiated, 3 could not be supported either way, and so, were determined to be “unable to be proven,” and four were labelled simply “other.”
The report listed the sources and categories of its sources for its conclusions as 66% being based on allegations to lawsuits, compensation programs established by dioceses and other entities, and bankruptcies, with 1% of allegations emerging after a review of clergy personnel files.
2,458 priests, 31 deacons, and 282 miscellaneous clerics were among the accused.
Second, with all the horror stories favored by the people who would have crucified their own Messiah and then chase Galileo down, I looked up instances of Drag Queens involved in allegations or convictions for acts of child molestation.
Looking at the first category, I simply typed “clergy child molestation” into three search engines and found page upon page of reports. In this second case I typed “drag queen child molestation” into those same search engines and found these two results repeated by a number of conservative and evangelical sites mostly just reprinting the same two stories under their individual masthead.
A 32-year-old in Texas who had been convicted at age 18 of attacking a child and is a registered sex offender had been involved in a Drag Queen Story Hour 14 years later, something that a vetting by the library could have prevented.
Objections to a sex offender of any profession reading to children such as at Firefighter Story Hour, Clown Story Hour, Santa Story Hour, are correct, but claiming after the fact that someone might have done something they obviously had not and using that as the basis of an allegation of child molestation is not.
A county children’s court judge in Milwaukee was arrested and charged with seven counts of child pornography possession involving uploading 27 videos and pictures of child sexual abuse to a messaging app, and was sentenced in December 2021to 9 years in federal prison because, as a U.S. District Court Judge stated, his
“sitting as a judge was an aggravating factor that supported a significant term of imprisonment.”
Posting child porn was his offense, and although this is bad enough in itself, it is not equivalent to physically molesting children, a crime of which he was not accused.
However, he was the former president of Cream City Foundation, a Gay organization that helps sponsor Drag Queen Story Hour among other things and, so, of course he molests children at story hours his organization helps sponsor but he himself does not actually attend.
So, we have two cases, one a Drag Queen and one a person in charge of an organization that supports Drag Queens while not being a story Hour reader himself, that justifies the banning of all such story hours because someone at some time at some place might or might not do something.
Thus it is that when bishops like the one in Providence, Rhode Island, who said about the last Pride event prior to the pandemic,
“A reminder that Catholics should not support or attend LGBTQ ‘Pride Month’ events held in June. They promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary to Catholic faith and morals. They are especially harmful for children,”
also admits as a conservative bishop he was aware of incidents of sexual abuse reported to church officials while working in Pennsylvania as auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh from 1992 until 1996, but after a Grand Jury report came out detailing decades of abuse and cover up in six diocese, his included, he defended his inaction by claiming it wasn’t his job to deal with them, I get a little suspicious when a person like this wants the little children to come onto him in light of the Conference of Bishops’ report, the Grand Jury report, and his own admission.
Same with Lauren Boebert who warns against things like Drag Queen Story Hour advising parents in a tweet to
“Take your children to CHURCH, not drag bars”,
something I am sure she does while she marries a good Christian man who went to another safe place for children, a bowling ally and, after overhearing some women, two of whom were 16, discussing tattoos, approached them and proceeded to pull down his pants to reveal his tatted genitalia and was then arrested for refusing to leave.
Among the names listed on the arrest warrant as witnesses to the event was his future wife, Lauren Boebert, who was 18 at the time of the incident. They married the following year.
Ironically, while omitting where and how they actually met, biographies say the meeting took place at a “drilling company”.
I see what was done there.
In this age when people are being called groomers for no other reason than the word is generic and, therefor, as conveniently usefulness the word “woke” merely because no definition is ever attached, looking at the facts, one wonders why organizations that have thousands of documented allegations of child molestation are not called out when they distract us by presenting the non-existent as the threat.
It is almost like the best place to seek sanctuary from a grooming church is at a Drag Queen Story Hour at the closest library having one.
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