Early reports came mostly from the United States and Ireland. The John Jay Report[1] found accusations against 4,392 priests in the USA, about 4% of all priests.

There had long been charges that a significant minority of the clergy had been practicing such behavior for decades, alleging that a "homosexual collective" within the priesthood viewed child sex abuse as a "religious rite" and "rite of passage" for altar boys and young priests.[5] While the reported sexual abuse dates primarily from the 1960s to 1980s,[6] some cases occurred in the 1990s and sexual abuse has also happened in past centuries: it was the topic of Pope Benedict XIV's apostolic constitution Sacramentum Poenitentiae in 1741.

The Catholic League has argued that the abuse figures in the Catholic Church are similar to abuse in other institutions: in U.S. public schools, up to 5% of all teachers are responsible for sexually abusing 15% of all students.[7] A 2003 survey reports that 6.7% of U.S. students had experienced educator sexual misconduct involving physical contact.[8] A U.S. Department of Education report issued in 2004 examined a number of American studies into the prevalence of sexual misconduct by school staff. They found that between 3.5% and 50.3% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career. They found that teachers, coaches, substitute teachers were the most common offenders. (Charol Shakeshaft, "Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature," U.S. Department of Education, 2004-JUN

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