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Connecticut Bishops Fight Sex Abuse Bill

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researchok4/12/2010 6:54:03 pm PDT

re: #548 SanFranciscoZionist

I’m working on the math. Make my life easier, give me a ballpark estimate of how many students we’re talking about here. The MSNBC survey was talking about 2,500 cases over 5 years. Obviously, that’s what they found, not what there is. Do we have a solid number from the study?

Yes, if you extrapolate the numbers, you’re looking at about 100k kids. It gets fuzzy though because reporting differs from state to state and there are varying time frames.

Even if you assume the number is only half right (one can only hope), we’re still talking big numbers.