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Recently, the Catholic church in Pennsylvania was investigated, and more than a thousand victims of child sex abuse were uncovered and exposed. Now it appears that a similar report has come out of Germany, although this investigation appears to be done by the Catholic church itself.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/25/report-details-sexual-abuse-german-catholic-church
A “shocking” report into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in Germany is “probably only the tip of the iceberg”, the country’s justice minister has said.
The German Catholic church presented the results of an investigation into decades of sexual abuse of children on Tuesday afternoon. The report details the cases of 3,677 children, the majority of whom are male, who were sexually abused between 1946 and 2014. About 1,670 clerics, mainly priests, are implicated….
Ahead of the report’s official release at the German bishops’ conference in Fulda, the head of the German church, Reinhard Marx, said it urgently needed to rebuild trust with churchgoers and the public. “Many people don’t believe in us any longer,” he said, calling the report a “decisive, important turning point for the Catholic church in Germany – and not only in Germany”.
Marx said he felt ashamed and wanted to apologise to the victims.
The report’s release coincided with an acknowledgement by Pope Francis that people were being driven away from the church by the many abuse scandals and cover-ups, including most recently in the US and Chile.
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