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Whereas I have performed an exhaustive search on the subject

BBWWAAAHHH!!!

That will be a first.

People and human corruption are not different religion to religion and denomination to denomination.

You sound positively Calvinistic. You are correct that all men are fallen. All men. Even "another Christ."

And that's Rome's problem. You elevate priests and saints to categories reserved for God alone. Then you turn a blind eye to their grievous sins.

Alex Murphy gave a good answer to your imprecise understanding...

ALEX MURPHY: I would have expected a religious order to recognize that raping a child is fundamentally a sinful behavior, before they would believe it to be aberrational behavior. It should be a warning sign to everyone that if a religious order looks to "the Psychs" for expert advice on dealing with known sinful behavior, instead of looking in their Bibles for solutions, they prove themselves to be scripturally deficient if not illiterate. "Religious" order, indeed!
We should not expect "psychological treatment" will end sinful behavior. That's what many bishops have believed, however, and look at what fruit it has yielded - $3,000,000,000 awarded in damages and settlements by Catholic dioceses within the United States alone.
The only thing that ends sinful behavior is repentance. Check your Bible if you don't believe me.

Amen. "Go and sin no more."

But this is what is so lacking in Rome -- even in Ratzinger's "letter of apology" he accepts NONE of the blame himself. He apologizes for the bishops, each of whom was acting according to Ratzinger's specific instructions.

So the problem, while wide-spread in our society, is NOT the same in Protestant churches because in Protestant churches the police are called in and ministers are defrocked, whereas in the church in Rome the sins of priests are hidden and denied and the police are seldom alerted to the crime. Instead pederast priests are shuffled under cover of night from one unsuspecting parish to the next where the sick crimes continue.

The Catholic Church's proactive stance and the blind denial of so many of the Protestant organizations largely explain the difference in the abuse rates.

If the Roman Catholic church had a "proactive stance" against these sins, the problem wouldn't be reaching the Vatican today. But the only "stance" of the Roman Catholic church is to continue to provide cover for the pederasts. If this were just a wolf among sheep it would be bad enough. Sadly, it appears this scandal involves wolves among other wolves.

In other words, your denial makes you complicit in the abuse of your fellow church members.

lol. What does that make you?