“Don’t blame Catholics, everyone rapes children!” - Typical Catholic apologist response
Neither my neighbor or public school teacher have proclaimed to be the light of the world, or the one universal church.
did it ever occur to you that the sins were partly because “wolves” seeking out coverage of being a sheep (sexual predators often seek jobs as teachers, clergy, boyscout leaders etc. and often “marry” to cover up their predelections and divert suspicion)...and for some men struggling with same sex attraction, the devil attacked men in their weakness to seduce older teens (and if you check, most of the “abuse” cases were of older boys, not children).
A lot of this has it’s roots in the 1980’s: Since ten percent of psychiatrists have sex with their patients (usually but not always heterosexual) they were part of the establishment that encouraged “treatment” not arrest. Heck, Newsweek even had an article saying that “experts” said incestuous pedophiles of their daughters should not be arrested, because it would break up the family, and California “pioneered” outpatient treatment of these “non violent sexual offenders”...
as for pedophilia: A recent CDC survey of teenagers show 5 percent of heterosexual and 20 percent of “homosexual” teenagers said they “had intercourse” below age 13.
There is a lot more going on than you think, but it’s more common among minority and poor teens. When I worked on the Indian reservations, many of our guys in AA had been molested: True, some were molested in “residential schools” but most of them attended the local high school, and commuted,(i.e. abused by family members or friends of the parents)...
Later, when one of our students shot a couple of his fellow students, and it made me wonder who molested him before his grandfather took him from his dysfunctional home to raise...