While I think beating up on your fellow FReepers to prove a point is wrong, I believe your analysis concerning the Catholic church and the sexual molestation of youngsters is incorrect.
There are many layers in the Catholic church which were involved in burying and hiding sex predators for decades. I don't think we'll every really know what the true number is.
Finding and publishing a story about a Baptist here or a Methodist there really proves nothing. Especially when nobody knows what your agenda is.
It is true that the Catholic Church has organizational layers that Protestant communities often don’t have. Further, in a Protestant setting the records are seldom kept, and it is impossible to sue anything but the local church, so few lawsuits are filed. However the rate of abuse seems to be the same, at least judging by the insurance claims, and the rate at which abusers were re-hired despite allegations of abuse is significant in the Protestant communities.
I can corroborate that easily if you want me to.
I agree, however that this entire topic is unproductive, and have no clue why I was pinged to this in the first place. While I make no apologies for my Holy Catholic Church, I did not make is my specialty to post about Protestant sex abuse.