[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't for one second doubt that all you wrote is true. I'm just saying it wasn't like that in every religious order, in every diocese, in every case.

I personally know of situations in my childhood diocese of Erie, PA where the "therapeutic" model reigned supreme: a genuine attempt to help the youths who had been molested, but based on the wrong-headed idea that "treatment" or "counseling" was the key to everybody (abuser and abused) being able to make a "new beginning."

[SengirV]

On the other end of the state - Diocese of Allentown, it was pedophile free reign. Pay the money, ship the priests off to a new parrish, ignore the problem completely - Wash, rinse, repeat.

[maryz]

but based on the wrong-headed idea that "treatment" or "counseling" was the key

The therapy itself was -- at least in many cases -- more than questionable. An article in the Boston Herald when the scandal broke quoted someone familiar with the materials used who said that they were practically a how-to book for abuse!