Have you also been “watching for decades” the same problem in Protestant churches or in the education system? The rate of credible sex abuse complaints and/or convictions in those institutions is 10% while priests in the Catholic Church have been accused or convicted at a rate of 2.5% over the last 60 years, per an exhaustive study by The NY Times in 2002.
I don’t wear blinders - the others don’t elevate their teachers/pastors/priests to the same level the Catholics do - except maybe the Episcopalians .... isn’t that a bit ironic ...