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Its the hypocrisy the religion displays which is the cause of the mockery when the incidents of paedophilic priests goes beyond the statistical norm for a given society.
Thats the correlation there.. beyond the statistical norm.

The 4,392 priests who were accused amount to approximately 4% of the 109,694 priests in active ministry during that time. Of these 4,392, approximately:
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The prevalence of pedophilia in the general population is not known,[3][60] but is estimated to be lower than 5% based on several smaller studies with prevalence rates between 3% and 9%. Wikipedia

The rates of "accused" priests were in line with rates in the population, the rate of convicted priests would be even lower.

Priests, sure, but you're forgetting general rape figures themselves, as compared with christian population density, especially in the US. Not to mention the hauntingly large amount of priests who get reported many years after the fact, sometimes not even by the victims but by witnesses. The church sure works hard to hush it up whenever it happens; you have to wonder how much of it we DON'T hear about.

Edit: Can't believe I forgot about this; the average rapist commits only 2 to 3 assaults before arrest. Sometimes only once. But, if you want a good example of how many nuns and priests can...I invite you to read about a certain Irish nun, recently accused of over 90...count them...90!!! counts of sexual assault.