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Why do so many cases of child molestation occur within the Catholic church?

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Why do so many cases of child molestation occur within the Catholic church?

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<> Actually there aren’t “so many” it only appears so because of how all these cases (many decades old) came to light all at the same time. This was because they lifted the statute of limitations on sex abuse allegations. So it appeared that suddenly the Catholic Church was swamped with child molesters, but that is actually not the case. In reality Protestant ministers have been convicted of pedophilia at a rate of 10% ccompared to 1.7% of Catholic priests. Over all the largest group of child molesters are fathers and step-fathers. There are many child molesters in the world, unfortunately. They tend to get jobs and situations that put them near children. Catholic priests don’t become child molesters, some child molesters choose to become Catholic priests in order to gain access to children. They also become youth ministers, day care workers, school employees, etc. etc. The media is more interested in reportin