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I was being kind... The 1700 listed are unsupervised and still working.

As of May 31, 2019, information published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) indicates that the conference has counted 7,002 clerics “not implausibly” and “credibly” accused of sexually abusing minors in the period 1950 through June 30, 2018, with three gaps in the USCCB data. Out of the 118,184 priests who have worked in those years, the 7,002 priests accused of abusing children are 5.9% of the total. The USCCB reports also show that the conference has counted 20,052 victims who are known to the bishops in the period 1950 through June 30, 2018. After a brief introduction, we provide a table showing the sources for those numbers below.

Who are the 7,002 accused priests? Since 2005, BishopAccountability.org has maintained a Database of Accused Priests and other accused clergy. As of November 21, 2019, there were 6,488 names in that database, including 5,808 priests, 35 bishops, 108 deacons, and 47 seminarians, for a total of 5,998 accused clerics and future clerics, in those categories that the USCCB has counted – more than a thousand fewer than 7,002. Note that 370 religious brothers and 119 religious sisters are also listed in our database – categories not included in the USCCB data.

On June 21, 2002, shortly after the epochal USCCB General Assembly meeting in Dallas, the Tucson diocese released a list of accused priests. Other dioceses gradually followed suit, and after the release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report on August 14, 2018, many more dioceses and religious orders published lists. As of February 16, 2020, 151 U.S. bishops and 23 superiors of religious have published lists of accused – see our collection of links to those lists. Because 27 Latin rite dioceses and many religious order provinces have not released lists, and because the released lists are often incomplete, the released names are far short of the 7,002 priests whom the USCCB has counted as accused.