I think the challenge involved turning in someone before an outside claim was made. We military types would call that the IG finding a problem before it becomes a problem. The Army does not move bad commanders and senior NCOs to another unit. They relieve them. If they break the law they prosecute them. I have been an Article 32 investigating officer a few times. Sexual misconduct especially involving child abuse are dealt with expeditiously. If found guilty it is hard time at Leavenworth.
redleghunter posted:
“I think the challenge involved turning in someone before an outside claim was made. We military types would call that the IG finding a problem before it becomes a problem. The Army does not move bad commanders and senior NCOs to another unit. They relieve them. If they break the law they prosecute them.”
But it wasn’t always that way. Particularly with senior officers, they were often reduced a grade or two and quietly retired. The IG finds a miniscule percentage of “problems before they become problems”.
Refer to the current Sexual Harassment/Sexual Assault issues. How many years did that go on, and how many cases were swept under the rug before it hit the headlines? It took the Sergeant Major of the Army getting busted for actions he had taken with recruits years before to bring it out and make it famous, and still it went on (and still does despite everything the military does). Even senior officers in the SHARP program development have recently been busted for it.
Before anyone flames me for equating soldiers and priests, I’m not. I am addressing the idea that an organization should be able to ferret out a crime before it happens.
We all agree that the Church handled it despicably. We should also take the time to look at what the Church has done to fix itself.
That is, unless one is more interested in the fight than a solution.