More than 100 Southern Baptist youth pastors convicted or charged in sex crimes

[MineralMan]

4. Yes. One wonders if they teach courses in grooming victims

at seminaries and bible colleges. Or, maybe it's on-the-job training, where one pastor teaches another.

The pattern is really clear in all of this. Youth ministers, in particular, have access to adolescents. They can identify the ones who have self-esteem issues, and then build them up and "show them the way." They begin from a position of trust, based on their jobs, and have the time and opportunity to slowly increase that trust to the breaking point.

It's not something that "just happens." Instead, it's planned and carefully executed by these predators. The same story is told over and over again, following the same disgusting pattern. While such abuse is not unique to ministers, pastors and priests, they have a unique position from which to operate, being "men of God," after all.

The harm these men do is lifelong.