Child Abuse in Oregon

·
Instead of punishing child molesters, they’re simply moved from place to place
without anyone getting a heads up.

·  It
takes almost a year-and-a-half to investigate claims of abuse. 

·
If the accused is guilty of touching a minor or
accessing porn on a computer, he can continue working provided he sees a
shrink.

·  Even
molesters who admit to their crimes are given a second chance.

·  Those
empowered to do the investigation are mandated to seek rehabilitation for the
offender.

·  The
investigators are not commissioned from the outside, rather they are all
staffed from the inside.

·  Deals
are routinely cut for accused molesters in secret, protecting the identity of
the molester from the community.

·  The
accused molesters not only walk, they walk away with cash settlements, health
insurance and letters of recommendation—just so long as they agree to get lost.

Catholic
League president Bill Donohue commented as follows:

“The
above is taken from a splendid two-part series on the problem of child sexual
abuse in the Oregon public schools; it was published on February 17 and 18 in
The Oregonian. The same problem—molestation, secret deals, inside
investigations, rehab—exists nationwide. Oh, yes, so does the phenomenon of
‘passing the trash’ to other school districts.

“So
where’s the outcry? If this were the Catholic Church, there would be calls for
resignations and punitive measures. It only goes to show that kids don’t
matter—what matters is the identity of the alleged abuser.

“True to form, when a Republican lawmaker in Oregon wanted to suspend rules to deal with this
immediately, he was denounced by the Democrats. By the way, of the $53,000
given by the Oregon Education Association to legislators since November 2006,
over 90 percent went to the Democrats. Not until the public schools model
themselves on Catholic reforms will this problem be checked.”