Petition to Obama to Act Now to End Group Child Sexual Abuse Advances

By Jerry Slevin
Christian Catholicism
December 29, 2012

http://christiancatholicism.com/petition-to-obama-to-act-now-to-end-group-child-sexual-abuse-advances-___-by-jerry-slevin-retired-wall-street-lawyer/

The petition that went public a couple of days ago on the White House website has been garnering over hundreds of signatures daily since then from all over the USA. The petition asks President Obama to set up a national investigation commission on organizational child sexual abuse that is increasingly occurring in church, synagogue, school and youth organizational situations.

State laws and local officials seem incapable of curtailing these crimes sufficiently. The sexual violence against children often involves organizations operating nationally that protect, and at times even facilitate, the sexual predators. Many of these organizations have significant political and economic clout of over local officials and prosecutors that often improperly precludes local prosecutions of the criminal conduct.

As a grandfather who has been a lawyer (now retired) for over 40 years since graduating from Harvard Law School, it is very clear to me that only a Federal solution can curtail this growing epidemic. That is what the petition seeks.

A brave New Yorker who lost her brother to child sexual abuse filed the petition. Help protect innocent children. If you want to be part of the solution, read the short petition, and then sign it online. That will help.

The petition had been accessible until this morning, Saturday, Dec.29, when it expired. A new petition is expected to be filed soon and will be announced on this Website and on BishopAccountability.org. Please stay tuned.

For more information on the essential role of President Obama in curtailing these preventable and violent outrages to defenseless children, please click on to the articles at the top of this page.