text: Easy to demand, but the probability that all these priests would be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment is low and most would end up back on the streets as registered sex offenders.
  
  "The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reports that the number of registered sex offenders in the United States has increased by nearly a quarter in the last five years. The total in the most recent survey was 747,408, up from 606,816 in 2006, the first year NCMEC did a count."