Twenty years after the Catholic church entered a nightmare spiral of sex abuse scandals, which shows no sign of ending, the Vatican’s top expert on protecting children has some shocking advice for the rest of the world.

Hans Zollner, a German priest, claims there are just as many predators lurking among groups ranging from American Protestant pastors to German sports trainers, yet unlike the Catholic church no one is doing anything about it, and the scandals are just about to begin.

“Boy Scouts, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, they are all being hit by abuse scandals, and one by one they will have to face up to it — this will not spare anybody,” he says.

“In Germany it has just emerged there have been more allegations