# The RCC now has zero tolerance for child abuse. Well, except... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 25, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rcc-now-has-zero-tolerance-for-child-abuse-well-except/696492 "2014-08-25T20:11:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 49
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rcc-now-has-zero-tolerance-for-child-abuse-well-except/696492/49 "2014-08-27T16:27:11Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Interesting, but you both seem to have ignored the fact that Law _moved priests around knowing they would reoffend_. At some point that behavior crosses over from “protecting the Church” to assisting felons. No, we didn’t ignore that fact: > [@Bernard Cardinal Law and Edward Cardinal Egan should be arrested](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernard-cardinal-law-and-edward-cardinal-egan-should-be-arrested/103862/6): > > Sorry, I don’t see this anywhere. Even moving the priests to other parishes was not an active step to prevent information from coming to light. Your definition of “active steps” is overbroad. > > From a legal point of view, both the parents and the cardinal are in the same position - they have knowledge of a felony and don’t come forward. (To be sure, they are in very different moral situations). Whether or not the cardinal moves the priest to another parish doesn’t affect that in any way. Nothing about moving the priest suppresses the information. It gives further incentive to the parents not to come forward - the priest isn’t going to be near their child again, but that’s not the same as suppressing information. > In any event, barring additional criminal activity - bribery, extortion, etc. - even taking active steps to present the dessemination of information about criminal activity, **so long as there is not an active police investigation** , is not a crime. > > Sua What specific crime are you contending applied? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rcc-now-has-zero-tolerance-for-child-abuse-well-except/696492)._