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Originally Posted by fireftr18
From what I've read, the problem is in every organization that works with children. From what I understand, the issue in the Catholic Church is extremely low compared to schools. The Church gets more noteriety because, well, there are much higher moral expectations. And I do agree with Herr-Berbunch, the local legal authorities should have been notified immediately. The former pastor of my church was involved in the counselling of the abuse victims. He not only agrees, but feels like serious steps from The Church should have been taken. He will let you know The Church was wrong for covering it up.
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This is what makes this so sickening to me. The fact that every sane person in society would say, OK this has to go to the cops and or I need to record what's being said here so there IS a record of it. This institution of evil says no, we'll just make sure these creeps are moved on from our organisation and everything will be just fine. No need to involve the authorities, no apology or thought for the victims. Just sweep it all under the carpet, keep it quiet and hopefully it will all go away. Now the veil is being lifted and society is seeing what they did and how wrong it is.
The Royal Commission into this is looking under a lot of rocks that have not been turned over for a long long time. I'm sure there will be more nasty surprises to come in this inquiry and hope that some of the spiders hiding under the rocks get exposed and squashed. The inquiry is not restricting itself to the Catholic Church, but all organisations where these evil creatures lurk to prey on their victims. The Catholics are just the first in a long line of rocks to be turned over.