History Main / PedophilePriest

--->'''Priest:''' Oh, but I had no choice! They made it impossible to say no!
--->'''Maxwell:''' Oh, who could resist the temptation of immortality?
--->'''Priest:''' ...amongst other things...
--->'''Maxwell:''' Oh, they didn't. What, did they just drive a truck of them up to your house?!
--->'''Priest:''' [''stammering wordlessly'']
--->'''Maxwell:''' '''''[[MyGodYouAreSerious Wow.]]'''''

* The ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode where Logan inspected rumors about his old priest after a fellow former parishioner killed himself. It's heavily implied that Logan himself was a victim of that priest; at the very least, according to what he tells Cragen, the priest made an attempt (the phrasing is a bit ambiguous). In the ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' episode based on that episode, DS Matt Devlin (Logan's {{Expy}}) admits to several incidents that clearly made him uncomfortable--"He was always lurking around, watching me", but appears genuinely unsure if the guy ever touched him.

* Rika's DLC of ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'' reveals that when she was a child being raised in an oppressively devout Christian house, [[spoiler: she was repeatedly sexually abused by her family's pastor.]]

* In the ''Manga/BlackButler'' anime, the leader of the Pure Church is implied to be one, which is why they were getting Ciel cleaned up. [[spoiler:Oddly enough, it may have been an InvokedTrope. The "leader" was actually [[OurZombiesAreDifferent assembled from the reanimated corpses of Ciel's parents]] acting as a puppet leader at Angela's behest. While it's unlikely to have had any independent sex drives, this ''is'' [[AxCrazy Ang]][[AnythingThatMoves ela]] we're talking about...]]

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Very simply]], this is when a priest is depicted as or accused of being a [[PaedoHunt pedophile or child molester]] -- in short, a holy man with an entirely ''unholy'' interest in children.

* ''Series/TheFall'': Spector spent time in a children's home run by one, but claims to have avoided being molested. The (now former) priest is completely unrepentant of his crimes when questioned.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lampshaded by Lestat in the second episode when he says the two priests he had killed won't be missed because people will just assume they molested children.

* In the sequel to ''Film/BloodFeast'', Creator/JohnWaters plays one. As he puts it, "[[TakeThatMe So in other words, typecasting]]."

* ''Film/NineDead'' is about nine people with apparently no connection to each other who are kidnapped, and told that one of them will die every 10 minutes unless they can tell their captor why they are all there. They all come to the conclusion that they all must have directly or indirectly screwed over their captor. One of the kidnapped people is a priest and is questioned over whether or not he molested the captor, which he vehemently denies. [[spoiler:The priest is telling the truth and is one of the more sympathetic captives in the film.]]

** The Protestant variety shows up on the episode "That Woman". When a high school student confesses to her youth minister (the leader of her chastity club, ironically) that she's having sexual fantasies about him, he encourages her to sit and tell them to him, with her back turned to spare her embarrassment. His tone of voice as he listens to her makes [[ADateWithRosiePalms it obvious]] that he's enjoying himself.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'', party member Leonard is a priest who survived the massacre of his "brothers" when he was off having some [[ADateWithRosiePalms alone time]] in the woods to deal with his urges. This was heavily {{Bowdlerise}}d for the English release, though Leonard still gulps nervously when the six-year-old Seere hugs him, and the sequel mentions the priest's "certain antisocial tendency." Despite this, Leonard remains one of the most heroic characters in the party... which isn't difficult when he's competing with the likes of [[SociopathicSoldier Caim]] or [[ChildEater Arioch]], but still.

Given the implicit trust associated with the profession, this is typically portrayed as the ultimate betrayal of innocence and a MoralEventHorizon for everyone involved. Due to the cultural impact of the late-twentieth to early 21st-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 neither Protestant ministers nor the clergy of other religions are by any means immune, and, of course, in real life a pedophile also can be a parent or other relative, a [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24075588 teacher or caregiver,]] a babysitter, a neighbor, a family friend, or even a random person online,[[note]]although for this to happen, a meeting must be arranged ''first'', and personal information given that any parent worth his/her salt teaches their children to ''never'' give to strangers, making the terrible internet DeathTrap [[NewMediaAreEvil not nearly as much of one as those who fear it believe]][[/note]] simply because — as with murderers, rapists, muggers, or any other type of violent criminal — pedophiles exist in all professions and at all levels of society. [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/16/AR2010041602026.html Some studies have argued that Catholic priests are no more likely to be pedophiles than any other person.]] The main reason why abuse cases in the Catholic Churches drew far more media attention than, for example, cases in schools was because the Catholic Church cases were systematically covered up. This cover-up was exacerbated because, when clergy abuse accusations started to become more common in the mid-to-late 20th Century, it was believed pederasty could be cured with therapy, which is where offending priests were sent (instead of informing the authorities).

* One of the 15 Portraits of Despair in ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Endless Nights]]'' is about a priest (not explicitly a Catholic priest) who gets booted out of the church, forcing him to start his life over, because he's accused of being one. He ''isn't'', but it makes no difference to the outcome.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Stan admits to being molested by a priest in summer camp. And then later admits ''he'' seduced the priest, although hastily mentions he didn't actually have sex with him.

* In the Creator/SpikeLee film ''Red Hook Summer'', a young boy is sent to spend the summer in Brooklyn with his grandfather, a local minister. After several weeks of friction, he begins to respect his grandfather and enjoy his church services -- until one day, a young man walks into the church and angrily confronts him over having molested him 20-something years ago. That said, there is never a single improper scene between the boy and the man, who insists that he deeply regrets his actions and has spent the past 20 years trying to redeem himself.

* In ''Film/JohnDoeVigilante'', John Doe's first victim is a pedophile priest.

* Father Tom Novak in Rayona's story in ''Literature/AYellowRaftInBlueWater'', who tries to molest her while on a camping trip.

* [[{{Music/Gwar GWAR]] gives us Father Bohab: a big-headed, bible-thumping priest who chases after the band as much as he chases after kids.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': {{Discussed}} when Lestat says the two priests he had killed won't be missed because people will just assume they molested children.

* Adam Blade in ''Manga/{{Needless}}''. Never actually '''does''' anything with/to little girls and played very much for laughs.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': {{Discussed}} as Lestat says the two priests he's killed won't be missed as people will just assume they molested children.

** The episode 4 preview has Maxwell interrogating a member of the Vatican who has been selling information to Millenium. Maxwell assumes the priest was motivated by promises of immortality, but it turns out that in addition to that, he was bribed with little boys to have his way with. The priest does not survive, having his brains blown out by Heinkel soon after the interrogation is over.

--->'''Maxwell:''' ''[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Wow.]]''