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Brian,

Thanks for your rebuttal.

I’d like to distinguish or qualify the SSPX sex scandals based on the players, victims and level of cover-up involved.

1. Fr. VDP perversion & apostasy:

He showed signs of demonic possession. Those close him had noted his visible deterioration while he was based in N. CA.  He seemed to be a wild card, solo pervert.  

And after 21 years of his demise, it’s hard to say who failed to act or covered-up for him?

2. SSPX Post Falls sex scandal:

Now, this was an organizational failure and cover-up from top to bottom.

Three unscreened perverts were allowed to run freely among this trad Catholic school, which had (7) priests managing it.  

This scandal was covered-up all the way to the SSPX District Superior’s office.

The primary news leak to the scandal was Cathinfo.

Incredulous,
You're right about the difficulty in sorting out details after 21 years. Last night, it occurred to me that Church Militans is leaving out an important detail in the interview with the mother of that other victim: I'd forgotten that VDP was no longer with the SSPX when he started up that school at his brother's place. That means also that the group VDP was about to speak to when the girl's father confronted him was not an SSPX venue. VDP was accepted into the N.O. church after he left the SSPX, then at a later time he was defrocked for being a predator. I'm guessing now that the pilgrimage to Europe with the girls was also post-SSPX for VDP. VDP had sent out a letter to the faithful of Post Falls (and I'm guessing everywhere else in his address book) , after he left the SSPX, that gave his side of the story of his conflict with the SSPX. But he left out anything regarding his sɛҳuąƖ misconduct. And neither I, nor most people knew at the time of said misconduct, or at least not the grievousness of it. But you mentioned that he'd been disciplined many times, and Ladislaus mentioned that he'd been allowed to put on a retreat for girls after Fullerton knew of his misconduct. If this is true, then the SSPX is still has plenty of guilt in this.
And yes, the SSPX Post Falls sex scandal was was clearly "was an organizational failure and cover-up from top to bottom". 

We know what the Archbishop did with Carlos U.  He told Bishop Williamson to "watch him like a hawk".
I assume that Ben Van Der Putten comes from the larger US Van der Putten family that produced other trad priests and large Catholics families.  I believe he has a brother who left the SSPX, joined the FSSP.
Could it be the case that in a very large Catholic family where there is a pressure to become a priest or religious or get married and have a large family, that a person who is sɛҳuąƖly immature and mentally weak finds himself entering the seminary and goes all the way through never admitting that he really would have like to have got married instead.  Then as a priest the desire to have sex weighs on his mind and comes out in weird predatory sɛҳuąƖ behaviour with the only people he can target.  In many large families there is an odd ball or someone harbouring secrets or who simply does not want to follow the mores and norms of the family.  In some cases they run off and marry a divorcee, in other cases they lapse and in some cases they enter the SSPX seminary hoping that their inner badness will somehow be cured.
Ben Van Der Putten married a woman in Hawaii, had 4 children, got divorced and now lives in a tiny house in Shawnee, OK.

We know what the Archbishop did with Carlos U.  He told Bishop Williamson to "watch him like a hawk".
I assume that Ben Van Der Putten comes from the larger US Van der Putten family that produced other trad priests and large Catholics families.  I believe he has a brother who left the SSPX, joined the FSSP.
Could it be the case that in a very large Catholic family where there is a pressure to become a priest or religious or get married and have a large family, that a person who is sɛҳuąƖly immature and mentally weak finds himself entering the seminary and goes all the way through never admitting that he really would have like to have got married instead.  Then as a priest the desire to have sex weighs on his mind and comes out in weird predatory sɛҳuąƖ behaviour with the only people he can target.  In many large families there is an odd ball or someone harbouring secrets or who simply does not want to follow the mores and norms of the family.  In some cases they run off and marry a divorcee, in other cases they lapse and in some cases they enter the SSPX seminary hoping that their inner badness will somehow be cured.
Ben Van Der Putten married a woman in Hawaii, had 4 children, got divorced and now lives in a tiny house in Shawnee, OK.

I don't find your theory regarding the path to Benedict VanderPutten's path to being a predator to be at all implausible.