It is not clear how many abuses there are, but the publicity given to some of those that do exist has damaged the image of, and public sympathy for, public employees.
When I teach, I try to tell the students that if biologists know how many fishes there are in the sea, why the hell can't we figure out how many victims of trafficking there are or how many abuses there can be in a place?
Sadly, recent incidents once again raise the question: How many abuse scandals will be tolerated before the New York State Legislature gets serious about the issue and passes meaningful legislation?
They also pointedly refused to say how many abuse complaints they received per day, what their clean up rate was or the speed of response.
Although she says the company does have a set of response times by which it aims to help people, it will not make them public – or divulge how many abuse reports it receives overall.
On Feb. 27, the more explosive report will try to tally how many abuse cases the church has faced since 1950 and how it has dealt with them, including the amount of money spent on settlements and treatment.
The company declined to share any hard numbers related to abuse on its network, including how many abuse reports have been filed, or the number of actions it's taken, for example, noting instead across the board percentage increases on things like account suspensions, implementations to limit abusers' account functionality, and the further results of those actions.
The question, then, for Cardinal Egan is not how many priests actually do not abuse children, but how many abusing priests have gotten away with it.
But as you point out, it is amazing how many people abuse someone else's permit, and even brag about doing so.
Kathleen McChesney, a former F.B.I. official who became director of the bishops' new Office of Child and Youth Protection last month, said the report would find out how many priests had abused how many victims, when the abuses occurred and for how long, how the priests and victims knew one another, the victims' ages and sex and whether drugs or alcohol were involved.
I've been told that prostitution is degrading and self-abuse, but how many other people feel abused by their jobs?
