text: The primary issue has been the history of denial of child sexual abuse and bringing it to an end.  It's been as difficult and prolonged as breaking the denial of the moral injustice of slavery in the 1800s. 
  The first public discussion of child molestation was in women's magazines in the 1970s.  The first case of molestation by a Catholic priest (in LA) that went public nationwide was in 1985 and was published in NCR.  Fr. Tom Doyle, a canon lawyer, has endured a lifetime of extreme pressure after he wrote the first advisory to the American bishops in 1985 calling them to break their denial on the issue of child sexual molestation by priests.  Ray Boucher also has given many years of his life.  Most lawyers wouldn't touch the cases.  And those who did ended up taking many more cases.  However imperfect the people and actions involved might be people faced difficulties that Jim Robertson seems to not be aware of.  No one has written a short history of it as far as I know.