CNEWS World - 34,000 Catholic nuns report sexual abuse, St. Louis newspaper says
St. Louis, Missouri -
A little-publicized 1996 survey of Roman Catholic nuns in the United States estimated that at least 40 per cent had suffered some form of sexual trauma, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported in a copyright story Sunday.
And some of the abuse, exploitation or harassment has come at the hands of priests or other nuns, according to Saint Louis University researchers who conducted and reported on the survey, which was partly funded by several orders of Catholic nuns.
The researchers told the newspaper that the survey was the only national scientific study dealing with the sexual victimization of Catholic nuns.
Read the article at CNEWS World dated January 6, 2003
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A little-publicized 1996 survey of Roman Catholic nuns in the United States estimated that at least 40 per cent had suffered some form of sexual trauma, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported in a copyright story Sunday.
And some of the abuse, exploitation or harassment has come at the hands of priests or other nuns, according to Saint Louis University researchers who conducted and reported on the survey, which was partly funded by several orders of Catholic nuns.
The researchers told the newspaper that the survey was the only national scientific study dealing with the sexual victimization of Catholic nuns.
Read the article at CNEWS World dated January 6, 2003
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