Cuz it can't be explained. Because no gods have ever existed in reality.
If any ever have, and they watched while children, or anyone, were abused, they'd be shit gods, not worthy of worship.

It’s easily explained...THERE IS NO GOD.

There are no gods!

I think the problem can be summed up not in eliminating a god but in a better understanding of how the supposed god works. [britannica.com]

" After Newton published his discoveries, some regarded God as a watch-maker; a distant Creator and First Mover who wound up the universe, set it in motion, and then stepped away; it was pointless to pray to such a God who surely wasn't listening."

When you think about this it should be how it works. For a god to constantly be meddling in human affairs means god is an enabler. This reduces or removes the idea of freedom of choice. Funny, but a new series on NetFlix "The Good Place" with Ted Dansen [nbc.com] has a different take on the afterlife and the 2nd season actually deals with meddling in peoples lives to send them to the 'good place.'

Here's how they explain it....

It's the devil's work!

The mysterious way in which god works is that he does not work. Believers simply make crap up.

Nothing mysterious about it.. We are animals... Why do we think a god, which we created, would interfere with our lives when she doesn't do so when a predator targets the most vulnerable in the herd...

I am sure joeandbarb can fend for himself on this. But I have fallen victim on this site to what follows as well. For those of you posting "Because there is no god" as an answer to joeanbarb's post I think you are missing the point. Of course all of us here do not believe there is a god. No need to reiterate that notion in this community. The frame of joeandbarb's post is directed at Christians who believe there is a supposedly compassionate, merciful and loving god who would allow for such egregious acts against innocent children. It is perplexing and mind warping to me and joeandbarb when otherwise intelligent people hand over their mind to such nonsensical and contradictory notions. And, for me anyway, I won't speak for joeandbarb, it is cathartic in an odd way to discuss these subject matters with others of like mind. We are not looking for an explanation. Even though joeandbarb's post did say "Try to explain...". I am sure the members here are bright enough to know that he was being facetious. We know there is not a plausible explanation.

Now as for me and my experience in Christianity these questions were met with "Its not for me to judge what god allows" which is the same as placing your head in the sand or placing your hands over your ears and yelling "blah, blah, blah". Its just one of those dilemmas that was swept under the rug and not discussed.

god is monitoring millions of planets like our's. he's bound to miss a few abberattions .

Because it's Bullshit

Gee,I never thought of that......

The explainer does not have to sweat it much if he is speaking to believers.

That’s god’s way. Don’t like it? To the highway with you son.

The only answer most religious people have to this is the free will argument, but this of course if countered by the counter argument that god obvious does not view all his children equally nor love them equally as the free will and happiness of the pervert obviously overrides the freewill and happiness of the victim in this scenario. Or else that "god" is so keen on punishment rather than prevention that he will allow crime to happen just so he can punish and torture the perpetrator afterward.
Either way this proposed god is a sick twisted and evil individual quite at odds with the purported loving god of the NT.

Seems because they are religious, it gives them a get out jail free card!!!

The reality is it just a hoax so they can get away with being immoral and criminal at the same time!!!

Why ?

Let's say God thingie is all "high and mighty", that is higher up on the food chain so to say.

People are animals. Child molestation is a preditor and prey interaction, but not saying its justification by any means. However, for comparison, a wolf eats a rabbit. They are animals. People are higher on the intellectual capabilities food chain and has observed "lesser" animals eat other animals. Has any people, being above wolves, done anything to stop all wolves from eating rabbits or could you say people work in mysterious ways of not ending the terror imposed upon many a rabbit lives?

There is no rational explanation!

I hate the Catholic Church!

The thing is, there isn't.

Christian dogma says Mary was 14 years old when she became pregnant with Jesus.......doesn't this make the Christian God a child abuser?

All part of Gods plan.... Well, lets face it child sex crime is a something at least most of us agree is evil. It is a psychological disorder which cannot be fully cured, so what can society do?
It isn't an easy or nice subject to deal with.

I don't think anyone here will try to explain god's position on this topic.

I agree with u 100% but ive actually had this debate with religious ppl, and the argument used is... Just like theres good in the world and god represents this good, theres is also evil and satan represents that, and god doesnt interfere in matters of ppls free will and its one of his ways to test ppls faith. So were basically pawns on a chess board, or puppets god and satan use to combat one another. Yea definitely sounds like a loving compassionate god to me