General Reports on Female Victims

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Women also allege abuse; Pedophile priests targeted girls, too

MAGGIE MULVIHILL, TOM MASHBERG and ROBIN WASHINGTON 2/25/2002 Boston Herald

Female victims often overlooked in horror stories of clergy abuse

By Marjie Lundstrom -- Bee Staff Writer Thursday, March 21, 2002

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/columns/lundstrom/story/1913333p-2025449c.html

Females -- forgotten victims of clergy sex abuse
 The Kansas City Star   7/12/2002 http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/3650171.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Female victims of abuse say they've been lost in shuffle
By Bonnie Miller Rubin, Chicago Tribune staff reporter  June 13, 2002
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/showcase/chi-0206130297jun13.story

A Wider Circle of Abuse

By Jane Lampman, Staff writer, Christian Science Monitor  6/14/02

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0614/p01s03-ussc.html

As bishops talk, women are listening
By GAYLE WHITE Atlanta Journal-Constitution 6/12/02

http://www.thelinkup.com/abuse-women/women3.html

Women Tell of Priests' Abusing Them as Girls

By SAM DILLON  New York Times, June 14, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/national/15ABUS.html

Five Women Sue Mass. Diocese for Priest's Abuse

By Elizabeth Mehren  WEnews correspondent    07/14/02

http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/972/context/cover/

Where Have All the Young Girls Gone?

by Mary Tolbert, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry

http://www.clgs.org/index.html

Women tell own stories of abuse  By Meg Murphy, staff writer, Eagle-Tribune 11/18/02

http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/womentell.htm

Female victims say abuse not rooted in homosexuality

Protest in Provincetown (women and gay men speak out)

by Paula Peters, Cape Cod Times, 12/22/2002


Devout and defiled  While male victims of predatory priests dominate the headlines, abused girls and women suffer in silence.

by Mary Papenfuss  Salon.com  1/9/03

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/01/09/priest_abuse/

Defeating the Demons: The Prevention of Clergy Sexual Abuse

http://www.christianethicstoday.com/Issue/030.htm

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