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"How many have you have children? how many of you are parents?"
There is a heightened awareness
about child *** abuse and how to prevent it.
"And what is the training about? It's to educate you."
The adults that we train are both clergy religious, lay,
anybody that works with children, or
if you are an employee, you are an adult that is employed by the Church,
and therefore you have to take the Protecting God's Children training,
which teaches about what abuses, what are these warning signs,
and how to report these warning signs. "How common
is it? I don't think we have any idea." They also give you a background
of perpetrators,
and what they are thinking, and what they may be thinking about, having access to
children, and how to report that. "Hear our cries, as we agonize,
over the harm done to our brothers and sisters."
Now, we're not trying to make people paranoid, with this training. We're trying
to make them vigilant.
The training also occurs with our children and young people,
in our religious ed programs, in our schools, in our youth ministry programs.
They have every right to expect people,
anybody, to respect their bodies, to know
that if it doesn't feel good to them, if it doesn't feel comfortable,
if it doesn't feel right to them, that they can report to a trusted adult.