Note to readers. This piece was a response to an essay by Walter Rhein, who suggested I publish it as a stand-alone piece.
Mr. Rhein, your essay has plagued me for days. I cannot stay silent any longer.
I think it fair to ask: Are children safe in private schools? My answer is NO — and here are my reasons.
89.9% of those convicted of sexually abusing children are white men.
In 1981, reports of boys molested and raped by Catholic priests and employees began surfacing. It was soon clear, that pedophilia was an epidemic in white Christian institutions. For the next 40 years, revelations continued stacking up, one after another. It is far from over.
In 1991, a major five-part investigation entitled “Scouts Honor” on sex abuse in the Boy Scouts of America, a Christian youth organization for boys, was released. Instead of protecting children, the Boy Scouts refused to report pedophiles to the police and the abuse continued.
In 2002, the Boston Globe published over 300 stories about the Catholic clergy’s sexual abuse of…
