First, I have to ask who you think these "Protestant powers-that-be" are? Because if they haven't got the guts, it leads me to ask where did the statistics come from?
“...it leads me to ask where did the statistics come from?”
I've never seen comprehensive statistics on Protestant clergy abuse of children. There are fragmented statistics that suggest perhaps at least 400 cases per year or thereabouts (which would have been 20,000 kids over 50 years). But the documents I've seen are fragmentary and likely don't paint the whole picture, and I'm not really sure of the complete context in which they exist, so I usually avoid referencing them.
That was kinda the point of your post - that I was comparing overall sexual abuse by Protestant clergy - which appears to involve roughly 2 in 5 Protestant clergypersons - with sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests - which appears to have involved roughly 4% of priests - or about 1 in 25 - over the past 50 or so years.
As I said, I've never seen comprehensive, in-depth statistics as exist in the John Jay study, requested and paid for by the Catholic Church, for Protestant clergy. I just figure that the Protestant powers-that-be just don't have the guts to do what our bishops did.
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