Priest Child Molestation Scandal

Not all Roman Catholic priests monks and nuns have the will power to stay celibate. Some engage in what would be considered healthy relations with consenting adults. If caught, they are typically defrocked. Others, sadly, interfere with the healthy emotional development of children they have access to. Strangely enough, when caught, these perpetrators of a terrible crime tend to keep their jobs. And their bosses who played a part in the cover up get sinecures at the Vatican as a reward, Cardinal Bernard Francis Law of the Boston Archdiocese, specifically.

In the early 2000's a scandal broke that has rippled worldwide, involving Roman Catholic priests engaging in inappropriate activities with children who they had access to. Many cases were not prosecutable, as the evidence uncovered was from so long ago that the Statute of Limitations had expired. As a result of some of the cases, there was a push to alter these statutes so that molested children would have a chance, as adults, to testify and seek justice.

Abusers and enablers
It is estimated that 2 percent of Roman Catholic priests were/are abusers but the remaining 98 percent are enablers. They cover up abuse when they know or suspect it and allow abuse to continue. Non-Catholics can speculate on what “education” turns the devout but naïve young men who enter Seminaries into mature priests willing to help abusers indirectly. Abusers are frequently acting under a compulsion. Therefore though they are very dangerous people they are not fully responsible for their actions. Enablers do not have this defence though they have the different defence that the Roman Catholic Church has brainwashed them.