Sexual Abuse of Girls by Clergy

A NOW Report on Clergy Abuse of Girls

In my previous post, I argued--more from intuition than research--that an entirely heterosexual priesthood wouldn't eliminate child sexual abuse but merely shift it from boys to girls. According to the NOW article linked above, girls are also abused by priests at an alarmingly high rate and may in fact be the majority of victims. In additional issue is that almost 10% of nuns in the United States are sexually exploited by those in religious life.