The motivation for such an investigation is NOT to protect children, it is to: 1. Create even more hatred against the Catholic church, and more importantly, 2. to generate enormous publicity for the state Attorney General.
The US Catholic bishops adopted a program in 2002. It will be interesting to see how many abuses came after that time. If the dioceses did not follow the program, shame on them.
BTW, why isn’t the Attorney General investigating sex abuse in the public schools, where it is rampant? Oh, I forgot, liberals love public schools.
Got to remember it is a major election in NY State, Governors race.