“...children at the time of rape and abuse,”
Teens. If you call teens “children” then I guess so. Have you ever heard of ephebephilia?
You can hammer that all day long if you want. I cannot tell everything I know, but I can say there are teens who don’t care who they have sex with, who exploit sick, perverted adults for power, money, and drugs, just as they exploit others younger than they are for power and sex.
You likely have no familiarity with the ugly homosexual subculture. I have a fair amount of experience with these people as a nurse on psych and as AIDS patients. And talk to some people in law enforcement to get a fuller picture.
I am a Catholic parent, so was my husband. If any Church authority figure had EVER harmed one of my children, we’d be in jail for murder, not behind closed doors with a lawyer angling for his fee and a big payout. I absolutely do not trust most of the so-called victims.
Priests confessed to being habitual sexual predators on not just teens but even on children as young as seven years old.
But now it’s the children that enticed the perverted clerics into sin? I’ve heard pedophiles claim that their victims enticed them but I thought the foolishness of such an arguement would be obvious. Guess not.