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Except for the whole "just transfer the predator to another parish to get access to a whole new batch of kids" bit. Thats unique and especially a problem with the opaque church hierachy's approach.

Find me an example of a school where the history teacher fondles a kid and the principle says "Never mind we'll try him teaching English" and then you have an apt analogy.

In an early study of 225 cases of educator
sexual abuse in New York, all of the accused had admitted to sexual abuse of a student
but none of the abusers was reported to authorities and only 1 percent lost their license
to teach (Shakeshaft and Cohan, 1994). All of the accused had admitted to physical
sexual abuse of a student but only 35 percent received a negative consequence for their
actions: 15 percent were terminated or, if not tenured, they were not rehired; and 20
percent received a formal reprimand or suspension. Another 25 percent received no
consequence or were reprimanded informally and off-the-record. Nearly 39 percent
chose to leave the district, most with positive recommendations or even retirement
packages intact.
Of those who left, superintendents reported that 16 percent were teaching in other
schools and that they had no idea what the other 84 percent were doing. A recent report
on sexual abuse in New York City indicates that 60 percent of employees who were
accused of sexual abuse were transferred to desk jobs at offices inside schools and 40
percent of these teachers were repeat offenders (Campanile and Montero, 2001). In
many instances, agreements are made to avoid legal battles with the alleged abuser
(Shakeshaft and Cohan, 1994). .
Several investigative reports have publicized individual cases and the response by
districts to allegations of educator sexual misconduct. For instance, O’Hagen and
Willmsen report that of 159 Washington state coaches “who were reprimanded, warned,
or let go in the past decade because of sexual misconduct . . . at least 98 of them
continued coaching or teaching afterward.” (Dec. 15, 2003) Many school districts make
confidential agreements with abusers, trading a positive recommendation for a
resignation. O’Hagan (2004)

Educator Sexual Misconduct:
A Synthesis of Existing Literature Commissioned by the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Well, there we have it. What do you suppose the actual motivation of those who attack The Church singularly, is?