In a shocking new interview with the National Catholic Register, Father Benedict Groeschel said that teens act as seducers in some sexual abuse cases involving priests.
As reported by the NCR, Groeschel asked about his work with sexual abuse perpetrators. Here’s what he said:
“People have this picture in their minds of a person planning to — a psychopath,” Groeschel said. “But that’s not the case. Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, and a youngster comes after him. A lot of the cases, the youngster — 14, 16, 18 — is the seducer.”
Groeschel went on to explain that kids looking for father figures might be drawn to priests to fill a hole.
We can’t make this up.
Groeschel went as far as to say that most of these “relationships” are heterosexual in nature, and that historically sexual relationships between men and boys have not been thought of as crimes.
In the wake of the Penn State scandal, these recent comments only claim that kids are to blame – which is wrong. Where is the accountability from the Church?
SOURCE: NCR
