In my church, when a group of parents went to the bishop and complained of sexual abuse of their sons the bishop sprang into action. Before the parents could get home he had sped to the parish spoken to the priest and removed him from town. The priest was given professional help for a period of time, then released from active duty in the priesthood. He is no longer working for the Catholic church. Not every abuse scandal was covered up by the church, there were indeed cover-ups, but to paint the whole church by those denies that many good men are priests and never sexually abused anyone. It denies that many bishops took action ending the abuse upon learning about it. Those stories are not extolled like the cover-ups are, but it is the same church.
Sprang into action???!?
I assume you think this is the proper way to handle this mess.
Don't you think your church and those parents and that bishop were forgetting one small thing?
That priest committed a felony. He should FIRST have been reported to the police.
So congratulate yourselves all you want. All you've done is let a pederast back into society with free reign to continue to molest children.
No wonder this keeps happening when otherwise intelligent people think this is the answer.
No child is safe as long as this foul, criminal mind-set continues.
And the lawsuit begins when?