Stop calling this just sex abuse, just pedophilia. It’s a specific type of person who wants to bugger little boys. It seems that the priesthood has been systemically infiltrated by this type of person.
Pedophiles who have acted out their degenerate fantasies repeatedly are not going to change, regardless of what folks think happens in a Catholic Confessional. Besides which, the priest listening to the confession may be of the same degeneracy ...