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Thompson posted...

What's up with clergymen so often being revealed as pedophiles? Like I don't think even kindergartens attract as many pedos as the church does.

To be fair, this is an investigation of decades worth of offenses so it isn't like one single person abused 600 kids.

As for in general, people who desire to do unscrupulous activities will ingratiate themselves into positions of power and trust so that when somebody even breathes in the direction of accusing them of misdeeds, everybody else has a knee jerk reaction of "Him? Never. He's trustworthy and a friend!"

It's abusing positions of trust so they can act with impunity

So it's a self feeding system where existing pedophiles join the Church because they know it gives them trust and a cover.