I agree that another approach--that of Restorative Justice--would be a good next step.  And Pope Francis would probably welcome it.  But it's also important to understand how difficult it has been to even get the sexual abuse of children recognized.  
If you have the stomach for it, read The Assault on Truth, Jeffrey Masson (originally published 1980's, republished 1998) in the first chapters about the morgues in France at the end of the 1800s and the few courageous medical examiners who recorded the evidence of rapes, mutilations and murders of children.  Freud (see above) went to Paris and informed himself of this and presented a paper indicating emotional trauma in adults was often a result of sexual abuse in childhood.  He was ostracized from the medical community of Vienna until he capitulated and produced the Oedipus Complex...just one chapter in a long, horrific history.