[One Name]

I concur that sexual abuse is far-flung.

Problem with Catholic diocese was the cover-up.

Transferring of problem priests out of jurisdiction, etc.

We had one at the prison where I worked who was getting packages of drugs; LSD and marijuana. They sent him out of country, last I heard.

That’s not what I’d call “stepping up”.

[narses]

‘Passing the trash’

Too often, problem teachers are allowed to leave quietly. That can mean future abuse for another student and another school district.

“They might deal with it internally, suspending the person or having the person move on. So their license is never investigated,” says Charol Shakeshaft, a leading expert in teacher sex abuse who heads the educational leadership department at Virginia Commonwealth University.

It’s a dynamic so common it has its own nicknames—“passing the trash” or the “mobile molester.”

Laws in several states require that even an allegation of sexual misconduct be reported to the state departments that oversee teacher licenses. But there’s no consistent enforcement, so such laws are easy to ignore.

School officials fear public embarrassment as much as the perpetrators do, Shakeshaft says. They want to avoid the fallout from going up against a popular teacher. They also don’t want to get sued by teachers or victims, and they don’t want to face a challenge from a strong union.

[El Cid]

Problem with Catholic diocese was the cover-up.

I have a problem with that as well.
It wasn't so much the sodomite infestation that was the problem. I could understand why the Roman Church might have had a higher infestation rate (although this article says otherwise) than others, because I believe their seminaries were targeted in the 60s and 70s. Sodomites saw it as an easy place to hide out, and to prey on unsuspecting young boys. The Roman Church could do little to prevent this plague. Where they fell down, and where their actions were an abomination, was when they did not turn these felons over to the Law, and even worse they transferred them to other unsuspecting dioceses. That was unfathomable.

[redleghunter]

Indeed the hush money settlements and shuffling the deck by moving pedophile and pederast priests around shows complicity.

It is a matter of using the authority which comes with being a priest as well.

[Vermont Lt]

Exactly. The way the church turned their head on this is abhorrent.

The fact that I personally know several people who were molested by priests, in a single diocese, all by different priests, led by a diddler Bishop tells me that someone was covering this crap up.

I believe the church as a whole is not responsible and is full go decent and good men and women. My wife works for a catholic organization and it is full of sisters who are the best of humanity.

But, I also feel it is important to point out that the church, in my diocese, covered up, obfuscated, transferred, and otherwise obstructed justice when these priests were reported. This happened at the highest levels of the church. And the young men who were sodomized and otherwise damaged by these homosexual priests, deserve every nickel they can get.

These men are not pedophiles. They did not go after “little boys.” They attacked young men.

If the church acted quickly and within the law, and not stood behind canon law, this could have been nipped in the bud. People would be upset, but action is always better than cover up.

The catholic church lost me forever. And I am not alone.

[1010RD]

That’s the real sin, not that people, including priests are imperfect, but once the seriousness of the sin is known covering it up condemns the organization at the very least at the level it is known.