Hmm.. not sure where these "facts" come from, but I've never heard of a 90 day statute of limitations regarding molestation accusations in a public school.

Funny enough, google "public school molestation" and the first page is nothing but Catholic sites trying to admonish their guilt.

This Week In Holy Crimes

Week of Sept. 13, 2009

Italy: A yearlong Associated Press inquiry uncovers 235 male victims of priest molestation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/...

I'd say the Catholic League is trying to divert attention away from the Vatican's indefensible position.

Holy Crimes, Week of Sept 21:

Connecticut: Convicted child molester Father Paul Stanley has assembled over 100 scientists and psychologists to discount the validity of repressed memory syndrome, which was used by witnesses against him.
Nova Scotia: Seventy men will share a $13M class action settlement for sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests, providing a court certifies the offer made by the church. Three priests have been convicted in the case.
Florida: Father David Dueppen slapped with restraining order by stripper who claims he fathered her baby. She claims he threatened to kill her and her baby if she persisted in her demand for a DNA paternity test.

Missouri: Father Gerald Howard has been accused of child molestation by three more men after word got out that Howard had changed his name after confessing to the same crime in 1982. Howard says that Catholic Church authorities had told him to change his name after the conviction, then transferred him from New Jersey to Missouri under the new name. News of Howard's former name came out earlier this summer when Mark McAllister, now 39, received a $600K settlement from the church. McAllister says that Howard kept up his sexual relationship with him even after pleading guilty to molesting him.

Holy Crimes, Week of Sept. 13, 2009

Connecticut: Father Michael Jude Fay dies in prison 18 months after being convicted of stealing $1.3 million from his congregation. Fay spent the money on luxury trips, imported cars, jewelery, and shopping sprees at Saks, Nordstrom, and Bergdorf's.

Holy Crimes: Week of Sept. 7, 2009

Wisconsin: Father James Blume charged with sexually assaulting a 12 year-old boy in 1978. Blume has been sued numerous times in various jurisdictions for similar crimes.
Manitoba: Father Raju Madanu charged with breaking and entering his own church to steal a "considerable amount of cash."
Illinois: Father Wayne E. Wigglesworth arrested for picking up a 15 year-old boy in an internet chat room.

Ohio: Father Patrick O'Connor charged with molestation of teenage boy. O'Connor was suspended from 2003-2007 while similar charges were investigated.

Montana: The Jesuit Society of Jesus has filed for bankruptcy after paying out more than $25M in child molestation settlements. An organization for children molested by priests claims the bankruptcy is a ploy to discourage more victims from coming forward.

Those of just the Catholic criminals.

That 90 day period referenced may be the time limit to file a notice/claim for money damages against a particular government agency (school district), which is the required precursor to filing a lawsuit in court.  There is no 90 day statute of limitations for a criminal prosecution anywhere in the United States.  The statutes for felonies like child rape or sodomy are usually a minimum of three years, and maybe five or more in some jurisdictions!

That was my thought midterm2.

Setting the Record Straight on Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal

The Christian Science Monitor reported on the results of a national survey by Christian Ministry Resources in 2002 and concluded: "Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problem in the Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit with child sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant".1 Sexual abuses within the Jewish communities approximate that found among the Protestant clergy.2

And as for the lame accusation that priestly celibacy is to blame for the abuse: That is, if the Catholic Church allowed married clergy, the problem would go away or diminish, it can be easily refuted by pointing to the fact that teachers, who are allowed to, and often are, married, are guilty at much higher rates:
  

The author of the study concluded that the scope of the school-sex problem appears to far exceed the clergy abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church and concluded in an interview with Education Week "the physical abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests".4

Read the whole article on the Sex Abuse Scandal with sources.
 

I think what he is saying is that he would LIKE it to be only 90 days to report the crime...........Hummmmm

Why is it that so many seem to try to justify bad behavior by saying that well look at these over here they are doing it.

I think just about everyone has a problem with child molesters Pax, except the molesters themselves. Polanski should pay heavily for drugging and sodomizing a 13 year old, and so should any teacher, rabbi. minister OR catholic priest that does the same as an authoritative figure. And when they claim to get their authority from God, believers should be even MORE offended by it. The fact that one group may be pounded more about it than another group does not make the guilty any more innocent. Pedophiles are pedophiles and all should be treated equally, but I'm not gonna give a pass to any of them just because they point out other molesters. If the Catholic church would have treated the molesters like the criminals they are, they wouldn't be getting pounded. Because this just isn't a case where the guilty get away with crimes, it's the Church moving them to another diocese to commit more mortal sins that is even a bigger sin. Most of these guys are just plain sick in the head, the Church put kids in jeopardy. Any sane and reasonable person would take exception to that.

Amen, anti,