Faze:
Boy, in my small town of Nelson, British Columbia, population of some 8,000, from the mid-1950's to the mid 1980's, there were two prolific sexual predators, freely devouring the innocence of hundreds if not thousands of children: one a Catholic Priest and the other a Dentist.
"In June 1988, Monsignor John Monaghan, a Catholic priest, who had served Nelson for 35 years, was sentenced to four years on 14 counts of indecent assault."
"Dr. Mas Fujibayashi pleaded guilty to committing all the acts reported to the college more than 20 years ago. After his arrest in 1988, he sold his practice and resigned from the college."
"Forty-five charges were originally processed, but Crown counsel Dana Urban proceeded with only 15 indecent assault charges and two of sexual assault, all involving males and females between the ages of five and 21."
Here's the point.
Both were 'well respected' if not beloved members of the community.
Both faced complaints in the 1960's but were allowed to inflict their vampire bites on children for two more decades.
Monaghan used incense smoke, sacred mirrors and his cassock as shield while Fujibayashi used nitrous oxide, enough to cause anoxia and therefore inflict brain damage on many of his patients, I mean victims.
I knew two of them.
Fujibayashi was named Nelson's 'man of the year' in 1982.
IOW, many people in positions of power knew what was going on and enabled if not abetted the abuse to continue.
As one of my childhood friends recently commented, "There's a lot more of their victims up there in the cemetery. The ones who became so shamed and degraded that they killed themselves by drinking or taking drugs or by living aimless half-lives."
Lastly, the French recently instituted one hell of an inquiry on the sexual abuse the Roman Catholic Church had visited upon the vulnerable, their children.
Their findings?
Because so many adults are so shamed they will not divulge their abuse, the findings are the tip of an iceberg to be sure:
About 333,000 children were abused within France's Catholic ...https://www.npr.org › 2021/10/05 › france-catholic-churc...
Oct 5, 2021 — PARIS — An estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church over the past 70 years, according to a ...