Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
well there are about 5,000 catholic priests in the UK, so that's explained about 6% of them. There are some 500,000 of us teachers as well, so I would not be surprised to see 80,000 as an underestimate when one tosses in the grooming gangs,celebrities and so on
Teachers are a strange one Geoff. I note that one of my youngest son’s (now 34) primary school teachers has recently been locked up for such an offence from long ago.
Always thought he was odd but not really in that way. Generally speaking though I reckon the teaching profession has always been pretty good at self policing...except perhaps where PE teachers and sixth form girls are concerned and that hardly constitutes pa edophilia.
Feel fairly confident that in any of the staff rooms I inhabited any such suspicions about any members of staff would have led to them being ‘dealt with’ very swiftly. Never felt the same about children’s homes though.
We also have to remember that a significant proportion, if not the majority, of such crimes are perpetrated by those within the family.