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This wiki page shows that it is a worldwide problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases
Reading threw many articles I have discovered that the percentage ranges from 2% (what the Church says... on this page.) However the 2% is only concerning prepubescent children. Plenty of Pedophiles seek children AFTER puberty.
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2021/03/are-catholic-clergy-more-likely-to-be-paedophiles-than-the-general-public-redux/
To as high as 10% as this vlogger claims on this page.
https://cityofangels8.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-stats-10-percent-of-catholic.html
If the actual rate is lower say 5% (claimed USA rate in some lawsuits) That's a huge problem. There are approximately 38,000 priests in the US, and that's a decrease from almost 60,000,50 years ago.
That's not the complete picture though, because children sometimes become imprinted to become a pedophile themselves.
Proverb 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
This also means the opposite in that you can train your children up in the wrong way.