Here is a site dedicated to preventing abuse in the Orthodox church:
http://www.pokrov.org/Abusers/perpetrators.html
They have found about 20 cases nation wide.
How many has the Catholic church found nation wide? How many were covered up?
Why would you enter the church in America knowing the problem is epidemic?
Also, FWIW, I was raised in a Catholic school, and it was at Catholic school they encouraged us to experience the Orthodox church (during one of the periods of heightened interest in ending the schism).
"Why would you enter the church in America knowing the problem is epidemic?"
Truth is truth regardless of how badly some under its mantle adhere to it. And you haven't been to my parish, which is a oasis of orthodox Catholicism in a desert of modernism.
Why, on the other hand, would I wade into the doctrinal confusion that appears to be Orthodoxy? I can't find any substantial agreement within Orthodoxy on whether they permit divorce, or don't. Or whether they permit contraception, or don't. Or on whether truth is truth regardless of people's acceptance of it, or whether the people have to consent before it becomes truth. Or even on banal matters, such as whether a priest should or should not cover his head while praying.