GERMANY
The Garden Island
Associated Press | Posted: Friday, July 13, 2012
BERLIN (AP) — The Catholic Church has fired a German priest for sexually abusing five underage boys more than 30 years ago.
The diocese of Trier in western Germany says Bishop Stephan Ackermann dismissed the unnamed man from the priesthood Tuesday.
It said in a statement Friday that the retired priest had committed the abuse between 1966 and 1980.
The Trier diocese said it only learned of the abuses in 2010, by which time the statute of limitations for prosecuting the crimes had expired.
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