What I still occasionally scratch my head (or facepalm) over is...
...how on Earth could any of these guys... priests, elders, whoever... have ever thought that not reporting, and thusly risking the crime and its cover-up inevitably being exposed later...
...would somehow have been better than being honest and reporting, and thusly garnering respect from the public and the authorities for their integrity.
The only reasons I can think of that carry any weight are...
a) ...they're guilty themselves and don't want to get busted for it, or...
b) ...it's so freaking widespread that if they had, they'd have ran out of qualified guys to run the churches and congregations.
I can't decide which option is more disturbing.