Child Sexual Abuse | Some Priest Child Molesters Can Be Returned to Ministry
Stephen J. Rossetti is executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Saint Luke Institute, a rehabilitative care facility for priest sex offenders in Suitland, Maryland. He is the author of A Tragic Grace: The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse.
Summary: Society’s condemnation of child sexual molesters is based on the myths that pedophiles are “monsters” and are untreatable. Psychological counseling and drug treatment programs, coupled with after-treatment supervision, have been successful in treating many child abusers,...
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