Yep, those damn kids seducing coaches and priests are definitely to blame…
"A prominent New York-based friar has sympathy for some pedophiles – including defrocked priests and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky – saying they are sometimes “seduced” by their underage victims.
Father Benedict Groeschel’s jarring comments come amid ongoing fallout from child sex abuse scandals that have rocked Penn State and, over the past decade, the Catholic Church.
In some of these cases, children “looking for a father figure” are responsible for the relationship with someone in a position of power – like a coach or clergy member, Groeschel told the National Catholic Register."
He has since released an apology for his remarks, and basically admitted that he is going senile.
“I did not intend to blame the victim. A priest (or anyone else) who abuses a minor is always wrong and is always responsible,” Groeschel said in his post on the website. “My mind and my way of expressing myself are not as clear as they used to be. I have spent my life trying to help others the best that I could. I deeply regret any harm I have caused to anyone.”
That’s cuz’ he was too busy with me. I seduced him before you were interesting enough for sodomy. Strange as it sounds, I was looking for a father figure.
“Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, and a youngster comes after him. A lot of the cases, the youngster - 14, 16, 18 - is the seducer," said Groeschel, a founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
Pressed on the point, Father Groeschel says “It’s not so hard to see - a kid looking for a father and didn’t have his own - and they won’t be planning to get into heavy-duty sex, but almost romantic, embracing, kissing.”
Yeah, makes perfect sense to me. Maybe it’s the children that should be punished for causing these problems because everyone knows adults can’t be held responsible for such debauchery.
WTF? I was surprised to not already find a thread on this but if I did miss it then please delete this one.
There was an episode of Always Sunny where the McPoyle brothers accused their old gym teacher (Saved by the Bell’s Mr. Belding) of molesting them. Everyone thinks Charlie was molested too and Mac is jealous that he wasn’t molested too, thinking he was a cuter kid than Charlie. This leads to him showing up at the teacher’s house wearing his old gym clothes and trying to seduce him.