That does not jibe with what I’ve read and understood for many years. Source, please.
I know it doesn’t jibe. There has been a widespread disinformation campaign to inflate the ages of the victims. Abuse of 8-10 yos is simply horrific. If the mantra can be sold that the kids were older, it’s not so nightmarish.
‘Majority of priests’ victims were male
American Catholic priests were shown to have a distinct pattern of sexual abuse, with 64 percent of all allegations of abuse made against a priest by a male only, according to a detailed report by the John Jay Institute investigating child abuse in the Catholic Church from 1950 to 2002. Those males were young: more than 85 percent of them were 8 to 10 years old.’
http://www.vocativ.com/235015/by-the-numbers-the-catholic-churchs-sex-abuse-scandals/