If you are of the mind set to prey on children you go where children are and you have the possibility of control over them. A priest, a pastor, a teacher, a mental health care worker, a coach all give you unsupervised access to children. One should expect the most prolific offenders to be found in those professions. Of those categories priest/pastors and mental health workers have the most private contact. Unfortunately all of these professions also carry some of the most self sacrificing individuals within society. It would be really unjust to taint the good that is done by the majority by lumping them with the few who are truly evil.
That being said a dialogue has to take place. Churches, schools, health care facilities, sports leagues and any other institution that could be used by predators need to develop policies that protect children from them. Exposing with the view to prosecuting said predators must be viewed as more important than protecting the institutes reputation they are found in. Finally parents need to be educated and given the tools to recognize potential vulnerable situations as well as what to do if they suspect something has occurred.
What doesn't help is people using the natural vulnerability of certain institutions as a reason to attack them. All that does is turn an important conversation into a divisive argument.
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