10-21-2006, 07:52 AM
This is not related to India but this is happening everywhere in Chruch.
<b>Experts: Priest in denial about behavior</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The priest told the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune that he and Foley "loved each other like brothers" and that although he taught Foley "some wrong things" related to sex, Mercieca insisted their interactions were innocent.
"It was just fondling," he told WPTV of West Palm Beach, Fla.</b>
From the perspective of people who have worked with abusers and their victims, that thinking is typical of a molester. Offenders, who are sexually immature, commonly view their involvement with their victims as normal and are baffled when others see things differently
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"It's common that offenders will block out major pieces of the events. I personally believe that it's also part of the denial process, where they just don't, frankly, want to remember," said the Rev. Stephen J. Rossetti, president of Saint Luke Institute, which provides psychological counseling to Catholic priests who suffer from a variety of troubles, including sexual attraction to children. "Those are typical kinds of statements of offenders who are not in recovery."
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"The things he's talking about are very sexually charged and they are sexual abuse," Rossetti said. <b>"For an adult male to be with a young male naked in a bathtub or a shower would clearly be a major boundary violation in most cases â and also traumatic."</b> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Experts: Priest in denial about behavior</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The priest told the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune that he and Foley "loved each other like brothers" and that although he taught Foley "some wrong things" related to sex, Mercieca insisted their interactions were innocent.
"It was just fondling," he told WPTV of West Palm Beach, Fla.</b>
From the perspective of people who have worked with abusers and their victims, that thinking is typical of a molester. Offenders, who are sexually immature, commonly view their involvement with their victims as normal and are baffled when others see things differently
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"It's common that offenders will block out major pieces of the events. I personally believe that it's also part of the denial process, where they just don't, frankly, want to remember," said the Rev. Stephen J. Rossetti, president of Saint Luke Institute, which provides psychological counseling to Catholic priests who suffer from a variety of troubles, including sexual attraction to children. "Those are typical kinds of statements of offenders who are not in recovery."
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"The things he's talking about are very sexually charged and they are sexual abuse," Rossetti said. <b>"For an adult male to be with a young male naked in a bathtub or a shower would clearly be a major boundary violation in most cases â and also traumatic."</b> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->