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"With the latest settlements, the number of people alleging abuse now stands at nearly 2,500"
So every Catholic church in major cities has thousands of sexual abuse victims? Did they just move the priests around and let them teach the other priests how to molest kids? How many centuries has the Catholic Church been molesting kids for?
So the answers to those questions are gonna be pretty bleak, just to warn you before I try to answer them with what I've found.
To start, google is too crippled for me to find your first question. But if you pick a city and search the numbers are pretty horrifying.
Yes, they move the priests around. It's known as priest shuffling. via wikipedia
Much like you, I was curious as to how long this has been going on. From what I could find, the church has been called out for molesting kids and covering it up since at least as early as 1049. They've most likely been doing this for much longer obviously, but as far as being directly called out on it and that being documented, it's been nearly 1000 years.
Peter Damian also wrote the Liber Gomorrhianus circa AD 1050-1051. From wikipedia:
One of the teachers at my high school was a Catholic priest. He had been accused of molesting a young boy when he was in a parish so the bishop, in his wisdom, moved him to an all boys boarding school.
He was later found guilty of molesting the original boy and the parish, as well as a boy at my school. From what I know now, he was definitely grooming one of my classmates, so there were probably many more victims.
He was given 3 years probation, and died a year or two ago, more than 40 years since I had him as a teacher.