because they are religious have to answer hard questions given the incidence of child abuse and the known evidence of attempted cover up within these faiths. Other groups where abusers have been found do not make these claims of moral superiority and in the main have attempted to address the problem with management awareness, professional oversight, statutory oversight, robust insistence on reports to the investigating agencies, training emphasising the importance of continual self monitoring and early assessment of those entering these jobs.
Compare and contrast. Imams, Rabbis, Rebbes and Guru often do not have even the minimal oversight provided by the few Christian hierarchies. There is also a culture of unthinking obedience to these spiritual authorities solely because they have a deeper understanding of holy writ. These cultures often insist that what happens within the faith not be reported to the temporal authorities because that would damage the faith in the wider world.
My OP raised the point that too often attention has been focused on the failures of Christian faiths and that the failures we see there seem to be replicated in other faiths; this was the reason for my quoting of the examples in the OP.
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