Why clergy? Children who may have developed an inner sense that sexual molestation is wrong may not trust that instinct. And then you add in eternal salvation it is becomes much more complicated. Children then develop belief if they do not comply with criminal behavior they will then be denied salvation.
Okay, that makes a certain amount of sense. My own experiences have me hyper-sensitive to the totally-acceptable (it seems) sexual coercion among school-age peers. (I must now go repeat, “If you hate someone, he controls you,” several hundred times ...)
I was recently observing on another thread, regarding a secular case of homosexual molestation, that it seems impossible there should still be teenage boys - the majority of “children” in question, in the case of homosexual priests and most other cases, too - who don’t understand that you don’t give a blow job to some old fag just because he asks you to. Unfortunately, there seem to be some who are incredibly naive or think they can gain something by going along.
It seems that we have to be unspeakably blunt with our sons, and talk about thing that we shouldn’t have to talk about, in terms that nice Southern ladies don’t like to use. And with our daughters, as well. Eventually they’ll go to college, if nothing else. I told Anoreth that if anyone assumed she was “available,” she could tell him to f^&* a goat.