US States Set Up Helpline For Reporting Sexual Abuse By Christian Priests, Get Flooded With Calls 

After a report revealed 300 priests were sexually abusing over 1000 children, the New York and New Jersey state department has ordered investigations of their own into the crisis reports VICE.

Being one of the most Catholic states in the country, the revelations are expected to get worse than Pennsylvania. There had been allegations in the past that the clergy had been covering up the scandal.

Hotlines had been set up by the New York and New Jersey's attorney generals office, for people to dial to speak with investigators and report cases of sexual abuse in the Church.

It was reported that the New York's hotline flooded with an overwhelming 400 calls in the first six days, but in New Jersey, the phones have been going off so much that there haven't even been enough people to answer all the calls.

The ‘predatory priests’ as they are called has become malice in the United States with a string of sexual abuse cases being reported one after the other. The news came to light as Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington sexually abused minors as well as seminarians, and his subsequent resignation.

A meeting of the world's bishops -the first of its kind- has been announced by Pope Francis declared to deal with the alarming issue. One of the Vatican officials on 9/11 called the problem as churches’ own 9/11 calling for transparency and action.