I apologize for not being able to quote statistics that don't exist, but I'm talking about the public reaction to allegations. The public response to allegations of abuse inside and outside religious organizations has been dramatically different.
Yes, but unless someone actually makes an allegation it's not going to be investigated in the first place, so how does anyone know how an organisation handled such allegations 20 or 30 years ago unless someone comes forward now and their complaints are properly investigated?
Roy Moore, remember, had enjoyed a long and successful career in the public eye, despite the fact that plenty of people in Alabama seemed to be aware that his behaviour, at least when he was in his 20s and 30s, around young teenage girls was pretty questionable, to say the least -- it came to light only when he ran as a candidate in the special senatorial election.
Want to bet on what we'd discover if someone were to run a thorough investigation of how allegations concerned the sexual abuse of minors in institutions run by the state of Alabama -- schools, children's homes, institutions for young offenders, and so on -- were handled by the state authorities back when the 30-year-old Roy Moore was making a nuisance of himself around underage girls in shopping malls (and allegedly sexual assaulting/raping some of them) and no one did anything? Want to bet on how complaints about the sexual abuse by staff of minors detained at the Mexican border are handled nowadays?
Similarly, look at allegations of sexual harassment and abuse of adults in the media and entertainment industries, and what's transpired as a result of #MeToo -- people working with them seem to have known what Roger Ailes and Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey were like but few, if any, complainants came forward until very recently.
I remember back in the 80s and 90s being assured, when I was asking as part of my job, about how schools and colleges run by the Inner London Education Authority (as they were back then) handled complaints of sexual harassment or abuse of students and staff, that they didn't need a written policy because they never received any complaints, so there couldn't be any particular problem. I remember my reaction to being told this, too, as probably did several of the people I was interviewing.
Maybe the US and UK are very different in this respect, and sexual predators abusing positions of trust that give them unsupervised access to young people tend, in the US, to be found primarily in religious organisations and communities while in the UK they've been active in secular institutions too.
Personally, I rather doubt that, but we're not going to know one way or the other unless someone makes a particular effort to investigate how complaints were handled back then, and that won't happen unless something makes it happen, like a police investigation as a result of a complaint about historic abuse.
What steps, if any, are the authorities in your state taking to encourage people who say they were abused in state and city institutions as children some 20 or 30 years ago, or more, to come forward, and how are the complaints handled and prosecuted if they do come forward?