Agreed. And the situation is worsened by abuse victims' reliability of recall of pertinent facts to a situation as displayed with Dr. Ford last fall in the SCOTUS hearings.

One thing everyone should agree with is that we need better and more unified reporting systems, better research, and better protections for victims of abuse. I, like you, realize there is not much recourse for victims of accusation, it sort of comes with the badge.

I also understand how unsubstantiated accusations by mentally unhealthy individuals can ruin a person's career. We are guilty until proven innocent.

Of course one would have to agree with your above statement, however there is something of a "Catch 22" therein as sexual abuse from a trusted professional can lead to psychological problems or as you put it rather bluntly "mentally unhealthy individuals"

The abuse statistic are not the same. In fact, according to a different scholastic article Shakeshaft produced while at Hofstra, it is about 100 times more likely your child is abused by a public school employee.

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2004_01_06/2004_04_05_Dougherty_SexAbuse.htm

Also I don't want to add discomfort to your paradigm, but medical professionals are not as accountable as you believe. While cases like Larry Nasser are uncommon in the news, it is thought that as few as 1 percent of sexual misconduct and violation of doctor patient relationship are reported. Most of the time the reporting results in inquiry and temporary license revocation and if there is credibility the doctor or therapist go into treatment and get their license back with some restrictions to how they practice (i.e. have to have a nurse present)

http://doctors.ajc.com/sex_abuse_numbers/?ecmp=doctorssexabuse_microsite_nav

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1079063217712217

The problem with all these scenarios (clergy or other professions) is that the employers and the professionals are supposed to self report have an obvious conflict of interest. Civil courts are a joke, it really isn't about truth per see, it's about two people's story and who is most credible, high priced lawyers, BS and big $. As a licensed professional I understand the conflict, but I also understand how unsubstantiated accusations by mentally unhealthy individuals can ruin a person's career. We are guilty until proven innocent.

Any ideas?

The beginning of the "analysis" at AIG, goes like this,

"Some people have wrongly assumed that Matthew and Luke (the author of Acts) are contradictory in their account of Judas’ death. Since the Bible is inerrant Judas cannot have died by hanging and died by falling and bursting open."

They begin with the a priori assumption that the bible is inerrant and then craft a rather poor interpretation to some how erase the contradiction. Sorry, we know the bible is errant in many of its assertions, thus, without much more evidence there is no reason even to deal further with the preposterous "scholars" at AIG.

Falling headlong and bursting open (that is to say falling HEAD FIRST) and then bursting open "in the middle" so that his guts shot out is the not the same thing as hanging oneself. There are other problems with the hanging story (who found Judas, what did they do, if anything with the body, why would anyone find him, the sum that Judas is alleged to get is a paltry one, why bother colluding etc).

And even if we grant that the falling head first and bursting open like a tauntaun on a cold day, were the same thing as hanging oneself from a tree we are still left with the fact that one cannot buy a field with money from the iniquity if one has thrown that money back into the temple (in another gospel the author claims that the field in question was purchased by a bunch of priests-twist that around AIG).

Blimey that was an old post :-) I've kind of given up responding here. I still lurk occasionally.

Hi Martin, I'm responding for Andre B who was banned in the last purge. You can see his response to you over here.

http://outshine-the-sun.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/new-i-think-disqus-feature.html#comment-1419664276

Michael