That's just the problem. If you do not press criminal charges promptly, you blow the possibility of having a successful criminal prosecution of the perpetrators.
If I had any suspecion that a Church employee (or a public employee, or anyone else) were abusing a child, I would go to the police FIRST. Not the school principal, not the pastor, not the press: the police. I think all of us would. You won't find anyone disagreeing on that.
Keep your children out of parochial schools.
Apparently, the Catholic church and its “orders” disagree with your stance:
“The Catholic religious orders that ran more than 50 workhouse-style reform schools from the late 19th century until the mid-1990s offered public words of apology, shame and regret Wednesday. But when questioned, their leaders indicated they would continue to protect the identities of clergy accused of abuse — men and women who were never reported to police, and were instead permitted to change jobs and keep harming children.”
We are also aware that the Vatican has been active in the cover up, at least until sometime in the past nine years:
The investigation of the tax-supported schools uncovered previously secret Vatican records that demonstrated church knowledge of pedophiles in their ranks all the way back to the 1930s.
We are not told that either Irish Catholic orders or the Vatican itself will change this “confidential buffet-style raping” policy from that of the past. We are only told that all parties involved “apologize” and will continue to protect Catholic abusers for all time.