The christian religion has everything to do with this. If you want to take the supposed teachings of This post will be deleted if not edited immediately Christ as a personal philosophy then fair enough and all credit to you, however, throw the word 'religion' in the mix and you've got a completely different situation. Organised religion is, was, and always will be a sophisticated system of social control. It has sweet f all to do with loving your neighbour. This was more than a group of sick individuals, this was entirely institutional in almost every sense. For me these crimes were a manifestation of the very nature of the institution, and as such the institution itself is the issue.
I would suggest that the manner of the church's responses entirely bear out this perspective, in particular the extensive efforts to suppress the victim's demands for acknowledgement of their suffering. The pattern of behaviour simply repeats itself in various extremes over time. The central point is the church doesn't have problems, the church is the problem.
Because I state that the church doesn't approve or encourage rape and that priests are not infallible you deduce that I take the teachings of Christ as a personal philosophy??
Terrible crimes were committed by evil men and women that is a fact, what is far from fact is that the church represents an institution that is a breeding ground for perverts. To take such a narrow view of the church misses the point and this argument is frequently used to batter the church as awhole rather than examine the role of the church with an open mind.