(June 16, 2014 at 12:38 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: One might suspect that in 1500 years of child molesting priests the church might have developed some pretty potent means for dealing with the problem.
Anticipating the problem.
Putting things back to right if the problem does occur.
What do we find? A church hiding assets to shield them from lawsuits, a church that sues victims, and a church that seems beyond embarrassment or shame, despite the heart rending accounts of the victims.
You have to remember that the act of child molestation just became a crime in America about 100 years ago. The age of consent was 7 in Delaware in 1895. So it was "perfectly acceptable" to have sex with children in that it wasn't a crime. Our outrage is very recent.
