From Philly priests to Texas teens, is organized child rape becoming common? - National Political Buzz | Examiner.com

From Philly priests to Texas teens, is organized child rape becoming common? - National Political Buzz | Examiner.com:

'via Blog this'In Philadelphia, the Catholic Church on Tuesday suspended 21 priests for a range of accusations involving sexual misconduct with minors. 

Meanwhile, in Cleveland, Texas, scores of family members were struggling to absorb the news that 18 young men and teen boys had been accused of gang raping an 11-year-old girl.

The Philadelphia case is part of the multi-year investigations into allegations of widespread sexual abuse of children committed by Catholic priests in the USA. As the New York Times reported today, "[t]he mass suspension was the single-most sweeping in the history of the sexual-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States".