Sex abuse in church

[Marigold2]

The pope should step down because he hid a crime, sex abuse against children, he should be sent to jail, just as any other person would if they hid a crime like this.
The law should apply to all regardless of status, money, power. Sex abuse against children needs to be stopped and if that means sending the pope to jail as the ringleader for hiding this crime then maybe that is what it will take to get the ball rolling and keep our children safe.
This is NOT about the church!!!! This is ABOUT children who were sexually abused and have a right to see their rapists jailed so no other child has to suffer.
I understand people have great loyalty to the church. But what about the children, are they not more inmportant then grown men in robes weeding out judgement right and left while sexually abusing that very child.
How can anyone put the church above a child?

[blue]

Still with the church and the pope?

Somebody run the numbers of the abused kids in the USA alone. Does the church or state and fed foster care abuse more kids? Obama is the head Fed, he should report to jail for all of the kids abused in the foster child system.

[wombat2u2004]

Still with the church and the pope?

Somebody run the numbers of the abused kids in the USA alone. Does the church or state and fed foster care abuse more kids? Obama is the head Fed, he should report to jail for all of the kids abused in the foster child system.

No Blue....you got it all wrong.
What we are saying is that ALL people who abuse kids should be answerable.
And at the moment the priests within the Catholic church are not answerable in the same way as everyone else is.
If someone sexually abuses a child, they should be given a penalty, regardless of who they are or where they are.....and that penalty should be the same for everyone who commits that crime.

[blue]

No Blue....you got it all wrong.
What we are saying is that ALL people who abuse kids should be answerable.
And at the moment the priests within the Catholic church are not answerable in the same way as everyone else is.
If someone sexually abuses a child, they should be given a penalty, regardless of who they are or where they are.....and that penalty should be the same for everyone who commits that crime.

What do I have wrong? I have stated, anybody who abuses a child, forfeits any rights they have, including the right to live.

[wombat2u2004]

What do I have wrong? I have stated, anybody who abuses a child, forfeits any rights they have, including the right to live.

Yeah, but you made a point a while ago that everyone here was attacking or demonising the church. So why should the church be treated differently ??
If the Pope is guilty of hiding the true facts, then he should also face the consequences.

[blue]

Yeah, but you made a point a while ago that everyone here was attacking or demonising the church. So why should the church be treated differently ??
If the Pope is guilty of hiding the true facts, then he should also face the consequences.

The media, not everybody on PT, is attacking the Church and the Pope.

Why are the Church and the Pope being targeted instead of our foster care system? Same reason teachers who abuse children get a pass while innocent priests get cavity searched just for going to mass.

If the Pope is guilty he forfeits his life, hopefully in eternity as well.

[wombat2u2004]

Why are the Church and the Pope being targeted instead of our foster care system?

Because the church is headed by the Pope, who chooses to hide the pedophiles within their ranks.

[Marigold2]

And so Blue should this also then be the fate of the priets and the pope?

What do I have wrong? I have stated, anybody who abuses a child, forfeits any rights they have, including the right to live.

[blue]

And so Blue should this also then be the fate of the priets and the pope?

If they are indeed guilty, yes.

[wombat2u2004]

How can anyone put the church above a child?

It's seems Ratzinger has.