I can see both sides on this issue. If you defrock a priest, he will be free to roam the earth to abuse again. It would be like moving a priest from one end of the diocese to the other end. In both instances, kids could be in danger. On the other hand, I know of priests who were placed in treatment facilities where they still had access to children and teenagers. In one case, teenagers were employed at a facility where several of these priests were housed. They mostly served as wait staff and when called upon this, the Church did stop employing kids at the facility. In another case, also in suburban Philadelphia, patients were free to take walks away from the facility. They were found to walk across the street to the parking lot of a high school and also to a nearby shopping center. One wonders if the Church will ever take this issue seriously. I believe that the only real answer is to prosecute sexual predators and that means extending statute of limitations on child sex abuse.