VIRTUS is a sexual abuse awareness training program that I am required to participate in--if I want to volunteer at my kids' Catholic grade school.
Funny how that works: the company engages in a decades-long coverup of sexual abuse of children by its employees and thereupon demands that its customers take sex-abuse training as a prerequisite for receiving its services.
Talk about socializing a problem--and the guilt.
But I do appreciate the need to keep an eye on Catholic parents who send their kids to parochial schools. Certainly, we're talking a high-risk pool of potential offenders.
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I'm pretty sure that the diocese attorneys are the motivating factor in this; as a way to limit any liability in the future. 40 years ago, no Catholic would have thought that a priest would be abusing and asaulting children. If a parish and the diocese doesn't do everything in its power to prevent prevent abuse then, if abuse occurs, the diocese will be found liable. Just like sexual harrasment in the workplace; sexual harrasment presentations to employees don't do much but limit the employer's exposure.
Posted by Kevin Shook | November 3, 2009 9:47 AM