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except there are much more pedophilia - related cases in schools - even NOW, unlike in the Catholic Church, were all those cases are 35-40 years old - happened where there was a doctrine in the American RCC that homosexuals should be allowed to become priests and the church was very liberal. Forbidden now officially ( since 2005)
In the general society of the time the pedophiles were also viewed not as criminals but more like psychopaths which will be cured after counseling.
That is why nobody was prosecuted, as almost nobody was prosecuted for pedophilia in the secular world at the same time.
The prosecution of the pedophiles tightened at the beginning of the 90s and since then the put under the rug crimes in all areas of the society started to surface.
Since the RCC is an affluent organization a temptation of fraudulent distortion also became very temptative - and succeeded in many cases, especially in accusation of those who have died already.