PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Daniel Rubin
Inquirer Staff Writer
Across the blogosphere yesterday, reactions to the grand jury report on the sex-abuse scandal ranged from skepticism to horror - with a lot more horror.
Capturing the outrage is Citizen Mom (http://quinnchannel.typepad.com/tfh/
2005/09/how_to_run_a_cr.html). For her, the morning paper hit like a punch in the gut, she writes:
"My high school is on the list, as are the parishes where all my friends went to school: St. Mary's, IHM, St. Matt's. So instead of mopping my kitchen floor, I'm tearing apart my office trying to find my high school yearbooks to match a face to a name... .
"Working-class families, people who could hardly spare what went into the Sunday envelopes, paid willingly for the privilege of sending their children to schools where they existed as captive prey for the abusers who would molest, rape and manipulate them."