“Natural hunting grounds for pedophiles are schools and children’s organizations like Scouting and church youth groups. (YMCA, CYO)” - very true.
In response, these groups, as far as my experience goes, do heavy screening now, including fingerprinting. Scouts have strongly enforced rules about “two deep” adult supervision camping, and so forth - no man is to be alone with a scout.
The church needs to do the same or similar. Then I’d believe the apology!
Please see my post 37