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You asked about the requirement that victims wait 10 years after they reach 18 to go public with their complaints. I showed you where Ratzinger reiterated this policy.

Keep denying Rome has a problem and the problem will continue, destroying lives, family, communities and faiths.

All you did was give me the document. I had to find the information within it. The crimes in question:

Delicts against the sanctity of the sacrament of penance, namely:
1. Absolution of an accomplice in sin against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue.(8)
2. Solicitation in the act, on the occasion or under the pretext of confession, to sin against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue, if it is directed to sin with the confessor himself.(9)
3. Direct violation of the sacramental seal.(10)

-A delict against morals, namely: the delict committed by a cleric against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue with a minor below the age of 18 years.

This is the crime that is truly in question. The three above it are specific to the confessional which is still subject to the seal and subject to secrecy BY THE CONFESSOR under penalty of excommunication. Any penitent, that is the person making a confession, is free to tell of what happened there at any time. Only the priest cannot break the seal. So, if a victim was solicited inside a confessional, they can go to the press, but the priest cannot publicly defend himself under penalty of excommunication. And the statute of limitations, or prescription, runs out in 10 years.

This document is the order from 2001 that transferred the abuse caseload to the CDF from the diocesan courts that were dragging their feet and not doing their jobs. How does it say that people cannot go public for that length of time?