“This was like God showing up.” That’s how one victim of clergy sexual
abuse in the Boston archdiocese described his family’s response when a
priest came to visit. He added fatefully, “When a priest paid attention
to you it was a big deal.” Unfortunately, in this case and hundreds like
it, such attention was actually a way of “grooming” Catholic children
for abuse.
https://baptistnews.com/2016/03/24/a-church-that-protects-sexual-predators-isnt-much-church-at-all/
https://baptistnews.com/2016/03/24/a-church-that-protects-sexual-predators-isnt-much-church-at-all/