YOU SAID:
“Wouldn’t there be criminal prosecutions for state employees that hid the evidence collected over the years for such abuses?”
I answered what you asked. And you are getting upset over something YOU asked. I was not legitimizing anything but I find your continual attacks against the Catholic church as mean and really quite out of place.
I said two things in that post. One was about state employees being liable for hiding this information as being criminal, which would indeed happen as long as the statute of limitations had not passed on their crime.
The other was on the Vatican and bishops keeping this same information silent on what happened in their schools. Ironically, you are silent on any responsibility from the Vatican or bishops, as I assume you believe they had no responsibility of cleaning their own house?