[cherry]

unless a person takes his or her case to the police, the credibility of the "abuse" is questionable....as it is now, anybody can claim "abuse" from 40 yrs ago, have no witnesses, no written record from the time, no corraboration, and the perp is probably dead and buried and thus, there is no refute....easy money!

all abuse cases whether from the schools, the jails, the churches, etc should all be reported criminally....this is where you separate the frauds from the actual victims...

in my beliefs, there are no gray areas and I have zero tolerance for any abuse at all...

[TSgt]

unless a person takes his or her case to the police, the credibility of the "abuse" is questionable....as it is now, anybody can claim "abuse" from 40 yrs ago, have no witnesses, no written record from the time, no corraboration, and the perp is probably dead and buried and thus, there is no refute....easy money!

I think you are forgetting about canonical trial documents and letters to and from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Of course the church doesn't want those documents revealed...