Less than 1% of Catholic clergy has been involved in sex abuse. It goes on in public schools also but since public schools are taxpayer supported in some states they cannot be sued and if they can be sued there is a cap on the award. I read where one state had a $150,000 cap on any award in lawsuits against a public school.
2007-04-23 09:43:21 · 15 answers · asked by Shirley T 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Now, let me tell you all something. If one of my father's children was molested, he would care at all for the money. He would settle it quite well outside of the court with his fist.
2007-04-23 09:57:03 · update #1
Why lawyers live another day to tell about taking advantage of anyone is beyond me, but....
As far as the cash award goes, what the hell do you need cash for if you were touched inappropriately? Will that "un-ring" the bell? If you sit around thinking that a cash award is your meal ticket so as to get out of work....the courts have outsmarted the lazy-*** types. They know that lazy type and avoid silly high price endings to bring justice as quickly as possible. If you want to get a lot of money, go to work and save it! If you are too funking lazy to work, consider robbing banks. Little work, big pay....(idiots)
2007-04-23 09:54:46 · answer #1 · answered by joe_on_drums 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you will find that most lawyers do things only for money, that will be hard to change. However, as a catholic, you should be asking whether Catholic school kids are being targeted by sexual abusers for sex. You have a means of changing that.
2007-04-23 09:49:42 · answer #2 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't go on any more in public schools than it does in Catholic schools. Further, many school districts can be sued and several of them, rather than go to court, make huge settlements with very little evidence presented. Perhaps if the Church authorities who KNEW these abuses were going on for decades did something about it when they first came to light, they wouldn't be having the problems they are having now. They have no one to blame but themselves! (I am a Catholic.)
2007-04-23 09:49:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How many don't do such things for money. There are good and honest lawyers, and there are some immoral ones, too. Those are the ones who just go where the money is...and the 'prestige'. Fighting about popular issues for the popular side gives them prestige, for all it's worth. It wouldn't be worth that much to me.
2007-04-23 09:50:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Are there fewer attorneys in Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and Poland or greater Catholics?" Yeah, so much less human beings to hunt for the scumbags, and greater human beings to conceal their evil... or maybe that wasn't what you meant? Populations and cultures selection, as do the percentages of the inhabitants that are Catholic. this is totally complicated to make any statistically sound pronouncements on one in all these imprecise foundation.
2016-12-10 09:33:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an old adage... Follow the money! And don't think the ACLU is doing its work for free. They are funded by your tax dollars in every case they win against a government entity. Sad but true.
2007-04-23 09:51:42 · answer #6 · answered by John 1:1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do lawyers target catholics and others for money? Is this America or what?
2007-04-23 09:51:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lawyers will target anyone for money.
2007-04-23 09:48:15 · answer #8 · answered by Its Me 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think the money is irrelevant when your the victim of abuse
2007-04-23 09:47:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Less than 1% have been prosecuted...get the facts straight. When a false doctrine stops the natural order of things and takes women from men for their man made dogma rules this happens
2007-04-23 09:47:53 · answer #10 · answered by Robert K 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋