Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Andre Gide, Catholic sex abuse cases, Edward Brongersma, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Mark Foley congressional page incident, North American Man/Boy Love Association, Sexual Morality and the Law, Hector MacDonald, Donald Friend, Justin Berry, Gustav Wyneken, Party for Neighbourly Love, Freedom, and Diversity, Ralph Chubb, Karol Szymanowski, Bill Andriette, David Thorstad, Walter H. Breen, Marc Allegret, John Henry Mackay, Brother Tony Leyva, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Sandro Penna, Boris Kochno, Pedophile Group, Rudi van Dantzig, Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia. Excerpt: The Catholic sex abuse cases are a series of ongoing investigations into adjudicated sex crimes committed by Catholic priests and members of religious orders. These cases began receiving public attention beginning in the mid-1980s. The attention led to criminal prosecutions of the abusers and to civil lawsuits against the church's dioceses and parishes where abuse was alleged to have occurred. Sexual abuse of minors in the priesthood has received significant media attention in Canada, Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Belgium, France, and Germany, while cases have been reported throughout the world. In addition to cases of actual abuse, much of the scandal has focused around members of the Catholic hierarchy who did not report abuse allegations to the civil authorities and who, in many cases, reassigned the offenders to other locations where the alleged predators continued to have contact with minors and had opportunities to continue to sexually abuse children. In defending their actions, some bishops and psychiatrists contended that the prevailing psychology of the times suggested that people could be cured of such behavior through counseling. Members of the church hierarchy have argued that media coverage has been excessive. ...