Boazycrap: << It did for many priests and it did for many calling themselves 'prophets'

-Joseph Smith
-David Koresh
-Jim Jones
-Mohammad bin Abdullah >>

What about those who call themselves the 'elect vessel'

-Bruce Hales ?

Mykah

Yes I agree with you on boarding schools. They're so out of my league that I'd overlooked them.

On reflection, in many respects boarding schools and orphanages have a lot in common. A principal difference of course is that parents use boarding schools as a means of outsourcing their responsibilities for child-rearing, while the parents of orphanage children (where there are parents) usually have no choice in the matter.

In either event, the sexual abuse of children is sickening and wherever it is humanly possible the evil perpetrators should be brought to trial. No in-house processes, call in the authorities every time. Perpetrators must be held accountable for their perversion but so must the institutional management for their failure to provide supervision and a duty of care.

As usual Pollywaffle distorts the meaning of what I was saying for his own exploitative purposes. Butt out Polly...we have never been "on the same page" because you're reading from the wrong book - probably visiting the wrong library. Go hawk your bi(b)le somewhere else.

Hello Michael, nice to hear from you again mate.

Having sex with children is learned behaviour. Many perpetrators learned this behaviour as victims themselves, others choose to do it because they can with little or no consequence. No they are typically not mentally ill - many are mentally very acute - you have to be for a successful and undiscovered career in child sex abuse.
Gaining access to children is a necessary antecedent which can be achieved by 1. breeding your own victims 2. partnering with a mother with victims 3. achieving a position of trust and control over victims with the consent and knowledge of families due to your social role/profession (eg priests) 4. manipulating a rift between the victim and the protective family 5. having institutional power over victims (eg schools)6. purchasing child sex here or overseas 7. opportunist offending (in toilets/parks/shopping centres)8. joining with other offenders to share victims.
For centuries the Catholic church has reasoned thus:
Priests are God's chosen princes on earth but they are tempted by evil. Those who cause priests to sin are therefore evil.
Therefore the church protects its princes against the evil of seductive and tempting children/women/men who do the work of the devil. Of course this also protects the church's reputation, money,property, parishioners and power.
Jesus is on record saying that anyone who defiles a child should have a millstone put around their neck and be cast into the sea. This measure would stop many offenders having long and successful careers but the sea level would rise.