The priest since has pleaded guilty to assaulting another boy.
When he was a teenager Caramanno had been hospitalized for an anxiety disorder and part of his return to high school involved mandated meetings with a priest who controlled his medication. Less than a year after he was released from prison he admitting to masturbating in the bushes on church property which abuts a Catholic high school.
Other dioceses created exceptions for a host of other reasons ranging from cases being deemed not credible by a board of lay church people to the clergy members in question having since died and thus being unable to defend themselves. The largest exceptions were made for the nearly 400 priests in religious orders who while they serve in diocesan schools and parishes don´t report to the bishops.
On top of that the AP found another nearly 400 priests and clergy members who were accused of abuse while serving in dioceses that have not yet released any names.