Buddhist priest arrested for underage sex

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Buddhist priest arrested for underage sex Fri Mar 10, 9:35 AM ET

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese Buddhist priest who was arrested on suspicion of having paid sex with a teenage girl said he was under stress and had given in to lust.

Itsushi Ehara, 73, chief priest at a temple in the western Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima and also head of a nursery school, paid the 15-year-old girl 80,000 yen ($675) to have sex in a hotel in downtown Tokyo, a police spokesman said on Friday.

"I could not resist my lust. A lot of stress built up from running the school," Ehara was quoted by Kyodo news agency as telling police.

Ehara, who is believed to have met the girl through a prostitute-dispatch service, is also suspected of having paid for sex with several other teenage girls over a period of two to three years, Kyodo quoted police as saying.

Japan has long had a relatively lax attitude toward sexual exploitation of young people. Teenage prostitution -- known as "compensated dating" -- was outlawed in 1999, but it still goes on, though less openly than before.
 
Hmm... this brings me to this question:

If we were to do some statistics on people who are molesters between non-christians, christians, and church leaders (priest, monk, etc), which would result in a higher percentage?
 
I think it is wrong for the Pope, Nun, and Priests to give up sex... because they need sex as much as they need love, water, food, and air. They need to get married and be in a monogameous relationship until death do them part.
 
The*Empress said:
I think it is wrong for the Pope, Nun, and Priests to give up sex... because they need sex as much as they need love, water, food, and air. They need to get married and be in a monogameous relationship until death do them part.
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Yup.
If they don't play the game, they shouldn't make the rules.
 
VamPyroX said:
If we were to do some statistics on people who are molesters between non-christians, christians, and church leaders (priest, monk, etc), which would result in a higher percentage?
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Depends more on the country and the culture than on the religion. The faction of the religion is also rather important. I have my doubts Orthodox Jewish rabbis in America have exactly the same incidence of pedophilia as Liberal Jewish rabbis in the UK. I don't think Zen Buddhist monks in Japan have the same incidence as Theravada Buddhist monks in Thailand. And I don't think Methodists in America have the same incidence as Anglicans in Nigeria.

With things like this, it's more than just the religion... Locale and faction play into it too.
 
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