Hmmmm. Obviously sexual abuse is a real thing, but, at the same time, anyone can say anything... especially about events that happened 57 year ago. This particular story of nuns essentially arranging sexual abuse orgies seems pretty far-fetched. Not saying that it didn’t happen, but not automatically buying this one.
The evidence was obviously strong enough for a court to decide in his favour. Generally you have to prove that something happened in order for a court to do that.
I agree with your thoughtful analysis.
It is possible that nuns were complicit..knowingly oy unknowingly..however since that awful case some years ago where the owners of a daycare facility were convicted falsely over children’s reports of abuse i am always skeptical.
I cant remember name of that story..but the children were coached by interviewers
The problem is, these reports of sexual abuse and impropriety have followed Catholicism throughout its history and around the globe and virtually all of them follow a common thread.
That many reports of sexual abuse in so many different areas during so many different times is beyond a conspiracy theory to make Catholicism look back.
Something is very rotten in the religion and the Vatican for such common threads to run through it for so long.