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The problem is that there are 726 pervert protestant ministers who raped and abused children where many of the cases were not put in the national media and Protestants on the FR take every chance they get to bash Catholics, even on threads about the Million Mom March at a Catholic Church, very Un-Christian brothers of mine must bring up "pervert priests" make fun of a man with Parkinsons ( I just love their Protestant Christian Charity, making fun of people with Parkinsons, it shows a great example of their faith) just to add salt into the wounds, bash Catholics in a thread not germaine to the subject Matter. Please post ME articales proving none of them weren't transferred. And read those links more closely, do you really think ALL were first-time offences?

Troubled Newark reverend removed
Sex offender loses Shiloh Baptist post
Wednesday, May 07, 2003

BY WILLIAM KLEINKNECHT
Star-Ledger Staff

A convicted sex offender from Florida who was hired as pastor of Newark's Shiloh Baptist Church has been removed from the position, a state official said yesterday.
Joseph Delmar, spokesman for the state Division of Youth and Family Services, said the church informed the agency that its leaders voted Thursday to remove the Rev. Chavalis T. Williams as pastor.

DYFS was involved because Williams, as pastor, was a board member of Shiloh Rainbow Academy, the church's day care center. The agency had warned the academy that Williams could not be allowed on the day care's premises.
"We have been informed by Shiloh that the Rev. Williams is no longer employed by the church," Delmar said. "Our concerns for the safety of the children have been met."
A number of church members said John Sabb, chairman of the church's board of deacons, informed the congregation of Williams' removal at a special meeting Monday night.
Sabb declined to comment.

In 1999, Williams, then known as Chavalis Bonsell, pleaded guilty to arranging for two teenagers to have sex in front of him and others while working at a facility for troubled teens in Jacksonville, Fla. At the time of his arrest, he was on probation after pleading guilty to an earlier charge of beating his wife.

After pleading guilty to charges of child abuse and using children in a sexual performance, Williams was sentenced to six months in jail and 30 months of probation.

Shiloh's leadership knew he was a registered sex offender in Florida and hired him in mid-March, provoking outrage among some members of the congregation. Many members of the church pressed the leadership to rescind his $45,000 annual contract.

Since being hired, Williams commuted from Florida and had only been at the church on two or three occasions, relying on associate ministers for Sunday sermons. He told the congregation he was planning to relocate to New Jersey.
Williams previously declined repeated requests for a comment on his past and could not be reached yesterday.
The controversy over Williams' pastorship divided the once close-knit church, which is on Davenport Avenue in the city's North Ward and will soon be celebrating its 100th anniversary.

The church's leadership and many members of the congregation strongly supported Williams, a 27-year-old known for his inspiring sermons. Leaders of the church were irate that some members had leaked his past to the media.
But another group felt the church had been taken in by a con artist. They said Williams denied that he was a registered sex offender in Florida when he was confronted by church members and appeared to be trying to collect his pay as pastor without living in New Jersey.

You seem to think that Baptists are a denomination. Not true.

Every Baptist church is entirely independent. They own their own properties. No clergyman is 'assigned' to them in the way the Prots or Roman churches do. They are a voluntary association of independent churches which hold to a common set of doctrine.

So your example fails the test, being not even remotely comparable to Roman bishops who knowingly and repeatedly assigned pedophiles to new territories with fresh victims.

The pattern of retaining and transferring known pediophile priests is a distinctive adminstrative characteristic of the Roman church. The scandal over pedophile priests is not that some clergymen, Roman or non-Roman, would molest children. It's whether denominational leaders knowingly cover up for such molesters, help them escape justice, and give them fresh victims in new territories (parishes).