Regarding: "What is to prevent the abuser from applying for a job that puts him in proximity to children?"
- This is a problem if the crime is outside the statute of limitations or if, while the accusation is credible, it does not meet standards required for criminal action.
- Now that the laity are front and center of this problem, it is unlikely that the cleric's crime will be reported outside the statute of limitations. If found to be guilty of a crime in all likelihood, in the US, this man will be on a sex offender list / database.
- If a man is found to have credible accusation, even if he is not criminally charged, then his name must be listed on the diocesan website which provides details of this man, such as his name.
- Indeed the Holy See should develop a public database, to which all orders, dioceses, congregations, and church ministries would report, of all found to be credibly accuses, and / or found guilty in the law.