My home diocese of Manchester, NH Bishop Matthew Brady had a priest that was referred to the Servants of the Paraclete at Jemez Springs. The director, Father Gerald Fitzgerald. told Bishop Brady that the priest in question was dangerous and shouldn't be allowed back to parish work and this was in 1957!
"[W]e have adopted a definite policy not to recommend to Bishops men of this character."  Father Fitzgerald, informed Brady in September 1957. "We feel that the protection of our glorious priesthood will demand, in time, the establishment of a uniform code of discipline and of penalties. We are amazed to find how often a man who would be behind bars if he were not a priest is entrusted with the cura animarum [care of souls]." [SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/04/22/one-dioceses-early-warning-on-sex-abuse/11e93a46-54fc-446b-a37c-cab06c8207bd/?utm_term=.9f85311fba87]