Entry nº 24

Personal Reaction: Church choirmaster jailed for child sex abuse

There are plenty of cases of child sex abuse that are reported to the police nowadays and many others that are not reported because of shame or fear, and the abuser may have been a relative, a stranger or a friend.
It is very important for parents to keep their children safe and trying to protect them they can put them in danger without knowing. That is the case of those parents who look for a religious activity to their children thinking that being involved in that sort of environments they will be protected. But there have been many cases of children assaulted by well-known priests who were supposed to take care of them.
I think that this kind of perverse behaviour is not a problem of certain sort of people because those who seem to be normal are many of these abusers.
I do not know if the fact of not having a sexual life can influence this terrible behaviour, but it can not be used under any circumstance as a justification at all. On the contrary, I think this should get the situation worst for the abuser taking into account the importance of the religious background of these persons.
The main problem is that there is no going back after these crimes, neither for the victim nor for the abuser.