a priest can be an apostate and go to hell when he dies. any of them who harmed those little kids without repenting and receiving the forgiveness for those sins are certainly in hell.
but grace has it’s origin in Jesus Christ, not the holiness ( or lack thereof ) of the priest.
God can use evil men for His purposes.
One more time: It’s not about the evil pedophile priests. We know their future. It’s about the innocence lost of those children. But MOST IMPORTANTLY, it is the fear those children have of their souls being forever lost because if they leave the RCC, they are taught there is no salvation outside that Church. The TRUTH is what has been stripped from them. And replaced with FEAR of never getting to heaven if they tell, leave, or refuse that pedophile priest, who has the power over them to retain or remit their sins.