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Discredited pedophile priests in the Catholic Church are outsourced to countries where no prosecution takes place, a commentator tells Press TV.

“A lot of the pedophiles who discredit themselves in more advanced white countries, where they’ll be prosecuted, are outsourced to rape, molest and abuse non-white black, brown people – and the church needs to confront its long history of racism,” Randy Short, a human rights activist said in an interview with Press TV from Washington on Tuesday.

“Take Africa - I don’t know of one case. There are easily 200-300 million Catholics in Africa and yet you’ve never heard of one case and I know from doing my academic research on the Congo that these things go on an epidemic scale,” Short added.

The comments come following the arrest and sentencing of an influential Irish catholic priest to four years’ probation for sexually abusing a child in his care at a religious school in Chile.

Earlier, a Roman Catholic priest in the United States was charged with sexually abusing children during missionary trips to Honduras.

Pope Francis pledged a worldwide crackdown on abuse earlier this year after human rights activists and the alleged victims of church pedophilia demanded the implementation of immediate and practical regulations that could ensure an end to the cases of sexual abuse by clergymen.

Over the past few years, the Roman Catholic Church has been facing a surge in scandals of child sexual abuse by priests, mainly in the United States and Europe.