Italy grapples with priest sex abuse accusations

[Julie Marie]

VERONA, Italy – It happened night after night, the deaf man said, sometimes in the priest's bedroom, sometimes in the bathroom, even in the confessional.

When he was a young boy at a Catholic-run institute for the deaf, Alessandro Vantini said, priests sodomized him so relentlessly he came to feel "as if I were dead." This year, he and dozens of other former students did something highly unusual for Italy: They went public with claims they were forced to perform sex acts with priests.

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And the pope says gays and transgender people are bad?

Julie

[Miniar]

Deaf children are at a great risk of abuse, there was an article about it in the newspaper not long ago over here.
Since they're deaf they don't speak (in words that is) and so, to the predatory people, they look like a a victim that can't testify about what they have done to them. Easy pray.

For that reason alone, I don't feel surprised to read that piece of news. Disgusted yes, but not surprised.
After all, the predatory person seeks a job/position where there is ample pray. And who has greater access to the weak and helpless than a man of the cloth?