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Originally Posted by EE-BO
You need to get educated on legal matters as well it seems. You don't have to sit down and premeditate child abuse to be morally culpable. Merely knowing about it and failing to act while it is ongoing is enough- in a legal sense as well as a moral sense. If you don't understand that, then I really have no reason to waste time trying to convince you.
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I don't think anyone is trying to justify the Church's terrible reaction to the issue of sexual abuse by priests. But calling it history's greatest child molestation RING (not to mention the 200+ years ago part, which you never seem to have gotten back to) goes a bit far.
I don't think I've seen a single claim that the movement of priest from parish to parish was made to actually facilitate abuse, which is what would have to have been present to have a child abuse ring, don't you think?
(I certainly agree with you that in some cases the movement of priest had the effect of supplying a whole new set of victims, but I don't think the people making the moves in most cases had any such intent or knowledge.)
And, as unfortunate as it may be, I think you're wrong about the legal responsibility to report abuse. There are certain occupations that are mandatory reporters of abuse, but I don't know if the average person, as unfortunate as it might seem, is actually legally required. This may be something that we should try to change so that cases are less likely to be hidden without investigation.