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pedophilia n. an obsession with children as sex objects. Overt acts, including taking sexual explicit photographs, molesting children, and exposing one's genitalia to children are all crimes. The problem with these crimes is that pedophilia is also treated as a mental illness, and the pedophile is often released only to repeat the crimes or escalate the activity to the level of murder. (See: molestation, rape, pornography) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Finally, the issue of homosexuality within the priesthood, rather than paedophilia, needs to be addressed head-on, as was made clear in the findings of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice which, in 2004, completed a study of over ten thousand molestation cases on behalf of the USCCB. In the open prison, which had a significant proportion of sexual offenders coming to the end of their prison term, respondents said they discouraged visits because they did not want to expose children to prisoners convicted for paedophilia. What do the paedophilia crisis in the Catholic Church, the outbreak of SARS, and the corporate accounting/governance/tax-shelter scandals of the past few years have in common? |
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