There’s no relationship between celibacy and child sexual abuse. I mean, I’ve been between relationships for years and it didn’t lead me to trolling around grade schools in a van, trying to lure some 10 year old in with some candy so I could violate him. That’s just stupid logic and it’s not how pedophilia works.

Any priest that molested a kid had perverted sexual desires before going into the priesthood.

Now, your first option makes total sense. If I was a perv, I’d be drawn to a profession that offers me authority over and access to the object of my sick desire.

And that’s apart from any cultural issues going on within the Church that prevents weeding out the sickos, if not actively covering up such activity.

There may also be an element with some pervs where they enter the priesthood thinking it’s a place where they can escape their sickness.