Syag:
I am with you about the denial that has existed for decades about the problem. The reason we have the challenge that confronts us all today, with cases for which the statute of limitations expired long ago is because the behavior was present then. No, it was probably not rampant or epidemic, as many of the fanatics claim, but even a single instance is one too many. The denial was tragic, and the protection of the abusers was also tragic. The pendulum belongs somewhere in the middle, and in neither of the extremes.