Australian Child Sex Arrests

(Adelaide, Australia) Nine men, including two former Anglican ministers, two officers of the Salvation Army and two former leaders of a church youth group, have been arrested on charges of sexually abusing children.

Police Superintendent Grant Stevens, who heads a special task force investigating offences against children, says up to 60 people have yet to be questioned and more arrests are expected.

Ten days ago the Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, the Most Reverend Ian George, resigned after a church committee criticised his handling of church abuse allegations.

Congregations throughout Adelaide on Sunday heard a strongly worded apology and a prayer for forgiveness from members of the church diocese.

Of course, the public and the believers should forgive the church for harboring the pedophiles because they apologized and it's the Christian thing to do.

In order to solve the problem of pedophilia in the church, it first must be recognized that it's endemic and conspiratorial. Throughout the church, and this applies to all faiths and denominations, pedophiles protect pedophiles. To stop the ubiquitous molestation, the leadership has to be replaced through aggressive prosecution. Don't expect for a nanosecond that the church can police itself.