Upwards of 200 educators have been arrested on sex crimes charges since January, according to analysis conducted by Fox News Digital.
Between Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, 269 educators have been charged with crimes ranging from grooming to raping underage students. The 269 educators are comprised of four principals, two assistant principals, 226 teachers, 20 teacher’s aides and 17 substitute teachers.
“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,” Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “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.”
“According to that research, the scale of sexual abuse in the public schools is nearly 100 times greater than that of the Catholic Church,” he said. “The question for critics who seek to downplay the extent of public school sexual abuse is this: How many arrests need to happen before you consider it a problem? How many children need to be sexually abused by teachers before you consider it a crisis?”
Source: Foxnews.com
