Priest Abuse and Clergy Sexual Abuse Information

The coverage until recently has focused exclusively on boys and while that has had the salutary effect of raising awareness of male victims of sexual abuse, it appears that 1 in 4 victims has been female and the female victims have tended to be younger. Many, myself included, have perceived this as primarily or even exclusively an issue where boys are victimized.

Obviously, that perception is caused by the coverage but what factors do you think have shaped that coverage?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/236489

(I have other concerns about the article but I’ll save those for another time.)

juditha…. you are joking right?! what matters is KIDS – male and female have been abused. that’s like pulling out the "who" in the holocust were killed (Jews versus Christians)…. my goodness the majority were male, no one thinks there were no females.
what has shaped the coverage is the media attack on the Rcc and the media share will bring them MORE points if it’s male on male for some twisted reason. we have turned into a very sick minded society who enjoy seeing the worst of people instead of working to focus on helping people.

if the media cared a smidge about kids they would be covering not only the Rcc but the protestant denominations and schools that are abusing children and yes not doing a darned thing about it too in some cases.
http://www.reformation.com/
http://www.cpiu.us/statistics-2/

this is scary and people need to wake up to the fact kids are being abused – moreso within their own home as 60% of children are abused by their own parent!