So he traveled to Rome to warn the Pope. He was ignored there and was sent on his merry way. Father Fitzgerald was eventually forced out as director of the treatment center and replaced with someone more in line with the treatment philosophy of the Church. An opportunity was missed. Eventually the treatment center was forced to close. But not before many children in the surrounding areas were sexually molested by some of the patients at the treatment center. It seems that the priests were allowed to go into the local communities and say Mass and interact with the children. Several lawsuits were filed and settled by the Church. Mind you, this was 1963. Twenty some years before the scandal would first break in Lafayette, Louisiana with the arrest of Gilbert Gauthe who molested countless altar boys in rural Louisiana. Most of these boys were six, seven eight and nine years old. Your attempts to exonerate the Hierarchy from any responsibility totally baffles me.Oh well, life goes o