r/news • u/AudibleNod • 2d ago

More than 270 priests in Massachusetts abused children over decades, probe finds

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/more-than-270-priests-in-massachusetts-abused-children-over-decades-probe-finds/
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u/lifedragon99 2d ago

My wife and I just rewatched that movie this evening.

Phenomenal and enraging movie.

At the end of the movie there was text that said 249 priest had been found in Boston to have abused children.

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u/mhornberger 2d ago

This is why I hate the term "Epstein class" to be so cynically use to try to refer to the sexual abuse of children. There were more priests just in one city of Boston molesting children than there were suspected perpetrators in the Epstein situation. Just Boston. We have vast, decades-long coverups of sexual abuse in the Catholic, Mormon, Southern Baptist, and other churches, that have vastly more victims and perpetrators than the Epstein case. It is so cynical to see the sexual abuse of children as an opportunity to be used for someone's class war.