Have other churches published child protection policies online?

Question

The Catholic Church, in response to teh sex abuse scandal, has published policies for the prevention of child sexual abuse - http://www.usccb.org/ocyp/2005EssentialNorms.pdf

Have other churches done the same? If so, please post a link.

Don says, "Maybe no one else needed to."

Yes, the Catholic Church did not think they needed a policy until it was too late. Are other churches THAT nearsighted?

Answer 1

Steve - I know of no other church who has.


Don and Andrew - I guess you missed the 20/20 special about the abuse in Protestant churches??

http://www.abpnews.com/2076.article
"ABC's "20/20" examined the problems with clergy sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention April 13, warning that some convicted "preacher predators" remain on an SBC's list of ministers available for employment.

Featuring interviews with Southern Baptist Convention president Frank Page and clergy sex-abuse-survivor-turned-activist Christa Brown, the program investigated how denominations without hierarchical authority can protect vulnerable parties from abuse by ministers.

The show also featured footage of Ken Ward, a former Southern Baptist preacher from Texas who admitted to molesting 40 boys during his tenure. Ward served five years in prison and is now under house arrest.

He said he knows that other predators think the same way he does.

"You look for a vulnerable child," Ward said. "You look for a child that is needy and lonely, because you take the father's place."

Ward said parents have it all wrong when it comes to protecting their children from sexual abuse. Instead of fearing strange men in dark alleys, they should be wary of trusted figures with unsupervised access to children -- such as Sunday school teachers or youth leaders who can manipulate children's emotional attachments to them.

"People saw me as someone that would never harm their child," he said. "What I would do as a pastor is I would start youth groups. Parents should be aware of a youth-group leader who is too attached to particular children." Ward, the pedophile under house arrest, said many abusers fly under the radar for years.

"Anybody could have talked to the churches I was with, and they would have praised me," Ward said. "I suspect not much has changed."



Southern Baptists watched as Catholics scrambled to respond to the growing crisis of predatory clergy but were "far too busy noticing the splinters in our neighbor's eye when motes were lodged in our own," he said.

"We can no longer claim ignorance or indifference to this crisis," Cole said. "It remains to be seen how aggressive our efforts will become to protect those who are most defenseless in our churches."



http://www.abpnews.com/2013.article

" In the communiqué, Thomas Doyle of Vienna, Va., wrote that bishops in the Roman Catholic Church, like SBC leaders today, said they lacked "direct authority" over any diocese to monitor the abuse problem. But in 2002, after the scandal threatened to shatter the church's very structure, Doyle said Catholic leaders created new rules for accountability within the institution.

"I am concerned by what I fear may be developing as a similar pattern in the nation's largest Protestant denomination," Doyle wrote. "Clergy sex abuse is a scourge that knows no bounds of theology, denomination, or institutional structure. To effectively address this scourge requires a strong cooperative effort."


Child abuse happens in EVERY denomination and non-denomination, whether people are willing to acknowledge that or not. Predators are going to be anywhere that they can get unlimited access to children - at school, at church, in the Boy Scouts..anywhere.

Answer 2

It doesn't look like anyone has given you any links. Maybe the other churches will just use the policy that our church provides. I figured the Catholic Church wasn't the only church to have these problems, but I've never seen any media on any other but the Catholic Church until I saw the links from Spiritroaming. I wonder why it wasn't something that was highly publicized. Maybe all the other churches should develop a policy. Looks like everyone could benefit from it.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

the pope is the head one who covers it up and sends the pedophiles away so thay can do it some place else so he must be sending them to latin america he wants to brainwash them there

Answer 5

Maybe no one else needed to.

Love and blessings Don