{"id":4680,"date":"2011-06-27T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:40:42","slug":"the-john-jay-report-what-critics-and-the-press-got-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/06\/the-john-jay-report-what-critics-and-the-press-got-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"The John Jay Report: what critics and the press got wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

And there was evidently a lot they got wrong, according to the lead researcher of the report, Karen J. Terry. \u00a0She offered the following analysis at John Jay\u2019s online resource, The Crime Report: <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sound bites should not be confused with facts.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>By the time we officially released our report (which can be found\u00a0here<\/a>) on <\/strong>The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950 \u2013 2010<\/em> on May 18, 2011, the media had already seized on incomplete leaks of the report to give it a spin that had only a tangential relationship to what we wrote.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to put the record straight\u2014and to chart a way forward so that the pattern of abuses we studied is never repeated.<\/p>\n

To do that, it\u2019s important to understand the background of the report and what it was intended to accomplish.\u00a0 Our mandate was to understand what led to the problem of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests from 1950 to the present day.<\/p>\n

We studied individual priests who abused, the Church leaders who were responsible for overseeing them, and the broader social context in which the abuse took place.<\/p>\n

A study of this complexity does not easily lend itself to an accurate sound bite.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, one early media report in a national paper attributed the explanation of social factors as a \u201cBlame Woodstock\u201d excuse, a phrase that went viral and was cited more than 14,000 times within the next two days.<\/p>\n

The truth is, at no point in the report did we \u201cblame\u201d Woodstock or simplify the explanation of the abuse crisis to the \u201cswinging sixties,\u201d as some papers reported.<\/p>\n

Another fallacy contained in the early media reports included the \u201cfact\u201d that we did not address the problematic actions of the bishops.\u00a0 Critics suggested that since we relied only on data from the dioceses, the bishops influenced the study findings.<\/p>\n

Actually, the data for the\u00a0Causes and Context<\/em> study came from seven unique sources\u2015a fact overlooked in most media reports. The data were derived from bishops and priests, victim assistance coordinators, victim advocates, survivors, clinicians, seminaries, historical and court documents.<\/p>\n

Many media outlets also accused us of being \u201cpuppets of the Church.\u201d\u00a0 Although nearly half of the funding for the study was provided by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Review Board\u2015a group of lay Catholics created in the 2002\u00a0Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People<\/em> \u2015was tasked with overseeing the progress of the report.<\/p>\n

The bishops did not influence our findings in any way.<\/p>\n

It is also worth pointing out that I am not Catholic, and I have not historically, nor do I currently have, any personal ties to the Catholic Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s just the beginning. \u00a0Read the rest.<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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