GERMANY
The Local
Germany’s branch of the Catholic Church will “never” be finished dealing with the fallout from decades of abuse against children by members of the clergy, a bishop said on Tuesday.
“I don’t believe that this chapter will ever come to an end,” said Bishop Stephan Ackermann, the man charged with investigating past abuse by the Conference of German Bishops (DBK).
At the beginning of 2010, it began to emerge that priests at an elite Jesuit school in Berlin had sexually assaulted dozens of students in the 1970s and 80s.
The Church admitted that it failed to properly investigate reports of abuse and in some cases even covered them up by sending accused priests elsewhere.
Hundreds of more cases came to light and the Church launched investigations and prevention measures.
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