The BBC reports: "Catholic Church records in Los Angeles show that for decades priests accused of child sex abuse were moved to new assignments or given counselling. The Los Angeles area has 126 clergymen accused of sexual misconduct in cases which have yet to come to trial. [...] The personnel records of the clergymen accused have just been released as part of settlement talks with lawyers in the case. They show that for more than 70 years, the Church provided therapy to clergymen accused of abusing children, believing that they could be rehabilitated."
[This BBC report links to a timeline of the "US Catholic sex scandal." But this BBC report does not link to this BBC report, which demonstrates that moving abusive clergy to new parishes and silencing those involved under threat of excommunication was a top-down directive of the Pope since 1962. I guess the years before the official order (note "more than 70 years" above) were just a gimmie, just for fun. The fact that the leader of the sovereign nation of the Vatican Holy See directed decades of child molestation is being under-discussed, and it sure looks like they will get away with it.]
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