This doesn't surprise me - that pedophiles would be spread throughout positions where they would have access to kids...
What made the Catholic church case so compelling and frightening was how they used their national (and even international) organization to shuffle and hide pedophiles and how high up some of the people involved seemed to be.
Right. The infiltration of sexual deviants into the Church and then into the hierarchy created a horrific, satanic criminal conspiracy. No question. The very structure of the Church makes Her vulnerable to that kind of attack. The wholesale evil of the twentieth century took the Church unaware. The fact that the Soviet Union was willing to spend decades and millions recruiting and deploying thousands of moles into the Church was inconceviable. It happened though, starting over 70 years ago. We are paying the price today for that lack of foresight and prudence.