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''It rips my soul apart!
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''Stole this shepherd's heart."''|'''[[Stephen Lynch]]'''|''Priest''}}
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Very simply, this is when a priest is depicted as or accused of being a pedophile or child molester. Given the implicit trust associated with the profession, this is typically portrayed as the ultimate betrayal of innocence and a [[Moral Event Horizon]] for everyone involved. Due to the cultural impact of the late twentieth-century child molestation scandals in the Catholic Church, Catholic priests are by far the most likely to be involved in a molestation accusation in modern media, although other religions are not immune.