Parent Nightmare: Public Schools Sex Abuse 100x Greater Than in Catholic Church - Report

A new report says public school educators were arrested on sex-related crimes involving students at a rate of one per day through the first nine months of the year.

Data analysis from Fox News showed that 269 educators were arrested, including four principals, two assistant principals, 226 teachers, 20 teacher’s aides and 17 substitute teachers.

The analysis only counted alleged crimes that results in arrests and that also hit some local media.

“Arrests that weren’t publicized were not counted in the analysis, meaning the true number may well be higher,” Fox noted in its report.

Fox’s report said 74 percent of the crimes involved students.

Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, sought to put the number in context.

“The number of teachers arrested for child sex abuse is just the tip of the iceberg — much as it was for the Catholic Church prior to widespread exposure and investigation in the early 2000s,” he said in a statement.

“The best available academic research, published by the Department of Education, suggests that nearly 10% of public school students suffer from physical abuse between kindergarten and twelfth grade,” he said.

“According to that research, the scale of sexual abuse in the public schools is nearly 100 times greater than...

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