"...dating back to the 1940's..."?????
There have been THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of priests, brothers, etc., in the Balto diocese over the time in question. It's horrible when it happens, but I wonder how the numbers compare with the Baltimore public school teachers over more than seventy years? Or Scout masters and volunteers? Or ministers and clergy of other faiths?
Yes, it was terrible when it happened and the perps should have the figurative book thrown at them, and yes the bishops often turned a deaf ear and reassigned priests who should have, as a minimum, been tossed out, but once you identify the perps and punish them (if possible), and you offer whatever support the victims might want or need, then it starts to get ugly. It's all about money.
You have armies of lawyers who are beating the bushes to find victims (or people who claim to be victims), hoping to cash in by suing the diocese, or more often the insurance companies that covered the diocese. Because the perps - even the Bishops - have no money or assets that can be the subject of a money judgment. In my home state of Pennsylvania this litigious army is trying to get a law removing the statute of limitations for such lawsuits, when the fact is that none of the perps can pay any damages, and most of them are dead. Suing, essentially, the Faithful and the insurance companies. This is "American Justice."
This whole thing is ugly, from beginning to end.
And for the record, if this ever happens to your kid, go to the police, not to the molester's boss. Just sayin'.