GERMANY
The Local
The diocese of Regensburg announced on Monday it is cooperating with the victims’ organisation White Ring to investigate sexual and physical abuse at the Domspatzen Choir, Die Welt reported.
“We have asked White Ring to recommend us a lawyer who can take this investigate forward,” said administrative head of the diocese Michael Fuchs.
Ulrich Weber, a lawyer specialising in cases of sexual abuse, will now lead the investigation into allegations of sexual and physical abuse at the Domspatzen primary school from the 1950s up to the present day.
The report will be published “as soon as we have the impression that the majority of reports [of abuse] have been considered,” said Fuchs.
Günther Perottoni from White Ring welcomed the diocese’s decision.
“They have assured us that the procedures of the investigation will not be obstructed,” he said.
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