M*W, I was born into a catholic family, I've never heard of this happening in my family, however we'r latinos from South America, my mom had no complaints only lots of questions they were not willing to answer, she's now a deist. But it is known to happen, this is nothing new, priest are viewed as authority to a minor, they trust that he knows what he is doing, and that he is a "man of god" they don't expect to be violated sexually, however when it happens the priest just scares them, and threaten them with burning in hell, and shiet like that, the kids buy into this deception and keep their traps shut for the rest of their lives, it has happened for generations, and it's still happening today, however it took courage of one man to come forward and inquire about one preist, and the rest is history. This phenomenon is not only isolated to the Catholic priesthood, other authoritarian church personalities have been known to molest children or abuse women in their church, and the silence is kept, by these women or kids, because of the consequences of been exposed is just too much to bear, and the embarrasment is too great. It takes courage to expose these sob's and unfortunetly most kids are not courages to expose such an authorative individual, as for a woman been molested, the priest only tells them "it's you word against mine if you try and tell any one, what've I got loose, your an alcoholic, drug adict, etc. you loose on credibility" authorative power, that's what they seek, and could not find in bussiness, or the job industry, so they find it in the church, the authority then is misused, to the extent of rapping a child, or woman.
Godless.
