First of all, I think that one of the reasons religious leaders defend their members (acused of sexual crimes) and do not throw them under the bus (as common sense would dictate) is because they'd need to build new roads :)
That would be an indirect acknowledgment of the false power of the Word/Church. If the people closer to god are capable of such atrocities, what's left for the common folk?

5 years is about the global average for sex offenders (even if they are given longer sentences, they end up serving way less). Only a few countries in the world carry the death sentence for sex offenders and in some cases only if the victim has died as a direct result of the attack.
Laws around the world are pretty ambiguous about the terms (rape, consent, etc) and that is a pity. In Venezuela you get more "justice" in the streets or from inmates than from the system itself.

The complicity of churches around the world in regards to sexual crimes is appalling. That's why in literature, since the times of Chaucer, it was common to find satires and indictment against religions in fiction and poetry.
Now, that religious institutions are plagued by sexual depravity or become complicitous of sexual offenders, is not surprising, given the very nature of what they do: hypocrisy, denial of human nature, and lies.
But that the secular law systems keep ruling against the victims of sexual crimes is beyond shameful.
I guess those girls are supposed to feel lucky they were not born in India, Lybia or Afganistan, where they might have been punished instead.