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February 2, 2010
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2010/02/02/jesuit-school-sexual-abuse/first-victim-speaks-out-sick-priest-gave-me-50-blows-on-bare-backside.html
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| Father Wolfgang S. today lives in Chile. He admits to having abused school children. |
Two sick paedophile priests sexually abused children over many years at an elite Berlin school – now the first victim has spoken out.
Manfred T.* (45) is today a respectable and upstanding man. He was a pupil at the Canisius Kolleg Jesuit school between 1975 and 1882, and Wolfgang S. was his form tutor.
He told Berlin newspaper ‘BZ’ that Wolfgang S. wore sport clothes, in contrast to the other teachers who wore gowns and that he was a nice person and a good teacher.
But the pervert priest abused the children’s trust for his own sick needs.
Manfred T. was often in serious trouble because he was constantly disturbing the class. He had received lots of demerits.
And the paedophile priest made the young boy a strange proposal so that he could exercise his perverse fantasies.
“He offered me a deal. No one was allowed to know about it. He said that we would forget about the demerits if he was allowed to spank me,” the victim told ‘BZ’.
A scared Manfred accepted the teacher’s offer.
He was extremely fearful as he waited for the teachers to officially meet to discuss his case and the later reaction of his father.
The abuse took place at a secret meeting point. Manfred T. had to take off his jeans and bend down. The teacher then pulled down his underpants, the 45-year-old revealed.
Then the priest gave him ten blows with a cane across his bare backside, five times in a row – a toal of 50. The door opened and someone took a photo. He didn’t see who it was, he only heard the noise.
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Afterwards Manfred T. went back to the classroom with his tormentor as if nothing had happened.
The boy could hardly sit and his bottom hurt for a week.
But the pervert couldn’t leave the boy alone. Manfred had to sleep in his room on a class trip. “He said that I had fever.”
The teacher went swimming with many pupils, travelled with them to the Baltic Sea at the weekends and showered together with the boys.
“That it was actually sexual abuse, I hadn't realised at that time in my life.”
He trusted his teacher and hung to the man. “It was nice with him. He could teach well. ”
Eventually the paedophile priest went further – he wanted to travel to Chile with Manfred T. for the entire summer holidays.
But that plan had to be cancelled when the teacher was forced to leave the elite school in 1982, reportedly over compromising photos of pupils.
Many years later, Manfred T. is clear in his own mind about the assaults: “For me the man is simply sick.” But the Berliner bears no malice against his tormentor: “I forgive him and have sympathy for him.”
(*name changed)
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