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What other organization ANYWHERE would get away with this kind of behavior btw?
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The Boy Scouts, the CIA, various Protestant "Boy's Homes" in New England and Northern Ireland (one deeply connected to anti-Rev. Ian Paisley), most of the BIA-run boarding schools which "educated" Native American children through the 1930s, Child "Protective" Services in various US States (most notorious cases being TX and GA, both of which hired convicted child-rapists for their CPS departments, both of which subsequently "lost" 3500+ children), and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (Levrenti Beria liked to rape prepubescant girls, but would take boys when he couldn't get them. Even Stalin's wife and daughter were aware of this, and were terrified of him.) Then of course there's the Royal Navy, home of "Rum, buggery, and the lash." Cabin Boys and powder-monkeys had other uses too, y'know.
Plenty of orgs throughout history, even the 20th Century, have had this same problem. Anywhere you have an insular group with power over others and a tendency towards bureaucratic ass-covering, you are going to have this issue. The RC Church gets the focus because theirs are the most recent to be this pervasive, and because unlike the various Gov't-run agencies mentioned above...well...they aren't a Government. Secondarily, the Catholic Church is alien to most Americans, odd-looking in the modern world, and openly regarded as an anachronistic joke by significant portions of the American intelligentsia who control the major media.*
*Not a slam, just a fact. You've gotta be half-smart to be an editor or programme director, after all, at least if you want the other half-smart editors and directors to take you seriously.