My disgust here is off the charts and my real response not appropriate for the Forum.
However, as a father what I truly cannot understand is the number of parents who apparently gave up. To be quite honest I would take a bullet for my kid, and if somebody had molested her and the law wouldn’t respond I would cripple them and gladly go to jail for it. I do not understand the parents who accept a corrupt legal system after things like this have been done to their children.
It really came home to me back with the Monica Lewinsky scandal that there are a lot of parents who are so despicable that they are not willing to defend their children from evil.
Had anyone done this to my child, priest or anyone else, and the legal system refused to respond, I would have taken a baseball bat and put them in a wheelchair for the rest of their lives. And gone to jail for it. Ditto for the corrupt church hierarchy that protected them. So many knees to cap and not enough time.
And no, they deserve no mercy on their souls.
Well, this is what happens all the time in many social/political/religious organizations. Good folks are so bought in that they loose perspective, and the innocents suffer. Turn the other cheek applies to a mature adult being insulted by a brother or sister, not a parent allowing their child to be abused by an adult regardless of whom they may be. Group think- threaten a person of a certain faith system with unholy conditions and you find many folks roll over for it rather than be persecuted by the powers that be. It is part of the human condition.
This is why we Americans ought to practice living by the rule of law and not of man in the social context. Personally, we should live by the grace and by the Faith of the Son of God ( Jesus the Christ).
Watch the self-glory. If you asked God, you would get a prosaic “Be there with your kid and let Me deal with the miscreant.”