While not as common as Catholic priests and young boys - there is very much a problem with too many Christian pastors and clergy with young girls.
“I rob banks because that’s where the money is.” - Willie Sutton
This abuse likely continued because the parents of the girl didn't have good commutation with their child.
Even if the abuser told her not to tell and threatened her if the parents had sat down with her after each unsupervised encounter they likely would have picked up on something not being right.
You can't just 'talk to you kids' once. You have to 'TALK TO YOUR KIDS' about their DAILY experiences.
I'm not blaming the victim or the parents but parents need to be more aware because abusers know all the tricks.
There is no way of knowing that.
Actually, across the board credibly reported abuse cases involving Protestant clergy happen at a higher rate than do Catholic clergy. We just hear about Catholic clergy more because the Catholic Church is a bigger, single target with deep pockets. Plus it feeds on people's prejudices.
Sodomy is an explicit sin in the Catholic Church. The great and tragic irony of our time is that many heterosexual men who sought to pursue holy orders over the last five decades were uniformly rejected from entering. (see book titled, Goodbye Good Men ) only the applicants that would bow down to the lavender mafia, still very much in power in the church , were accepted. So from Cardinals down to bishops down to priests the church has been infiltrated by sodomites. The statistics show that most abuse claims are by adolescent young men, and not little boys as the media and the misinformed try to perpetuate. Gay men like sex with young gay men. “It is impossible that scandals not come, but woe to you who by whom the scandals do come, better a millstone be bound around your neck and you be cast into the sea!”
FAR more common in prostant circles, but their denominations are not involved unlike Catholics who have ties clear back to the Vatican.