Again, man is fallen and prone to sin, and some will fall prey to their particular weaknesses. But an entire denomination apparently dedicated to moving sexual predators around, publicly defending them and sending them off to another church instead of removing them and handing them over to civil authorities? No. The Protestant world just does not work that way. Neither should the Catholic, as you're learning, painfully.
Give a call to this church:
Link and ask them how they handled the situation with Pastor "feel the ti*s" Ritt when he destroyed both his and the choir director's family by getting involved in an unseemly "intense" relationship with her some 30 or so years ago. The parishioners were "in flames" over this (they had meetings; I was there), but they kept Pastor Ritt in his post (forgive your brother! forgive your brother!), and many of the angry parishioners, who felt forgiveness was in order, but the pastor should step down, moved on to another church. (I left as well, but years later converted to Catholicism.) Did any of Pastor Ritt's "issues" get any press? Not much! The sleazy goings on in the Lutheran church just isn't news, as the Protestants dismissed the Living Body of Christ, which to the Catholics allows darkness (impurity) to fill in the gap, when they organized their faiths long ago. The Catholic Church will never do that (
the source and summit of the Christian life), so when the devil hits their pews, it becomes bigger news.
You and your fellow parishioners did the righteous thing in calling him out, you didn’t become party to the sin by concealing it. That the specific church decided to forgive and allow the man to stay on was apparently made via an agreed upon decision making process. We are commanded to forgive, and so they did. If the pastor continued to abuse the trust of the parishioners and continued to act in an immoral way, however, after creating such an unseemly situation and causing so much harm, I can only hope and would certainly expect that he was shown the door. Was the Synod brought in at all, or was this handled strictly within the congregation?