"...when the complainant was 17 or 18 years old, and the priest was 7 years older. Joe Offer

This sounds like an almost totally different thing from what is currently in the news. Statutory rape, perhaps, homosexual, definitely, but not pedophilic. A child of 12 or 14, not to even mention an 8 year old, is in a very different life stage than is a 17 or 18-year-old young adult.

Sure, it is still an abuse of power and it may still be hurtful, but it's hard for me to see that that encounter will have a lasting effect. The 18 year old is old enough, or should be, to have some insight into the matter.

Ebbie