prepared by Fr. Paul Sullins, Ph.D.
a project of the Ruth Institute
Direct Download (PDF; click to download):
Receding Waves Report (672 KB) Follow-up study to Dr. Paul Sullins' "Clergy Sex Abuse" report, analyzing trends from 2000 onward. (Released on 06-Jun-2019)
Data Sources
The Ruth Institute would like to thank retired journalist G.R. Pafumi for sharing his data, described in our report as the SACCADAS
database. Pafumi’s research was housed at VictimsSpeakDB.org; his current work is housed at his blog, victimsspeakdb.wordpress.com.