GERMANY
DW
A man has admitted in court to sexually abusing seven boys while heading a Buddhist community in southern Germany. The abuse, which took place over a period of 10 years, involved boys aged 4 to 13.
At the start of his trial in the southern German city of Augsburg on Friday, a Zen Buddhist priest fully admitted to sexually abusing a total of seven boys over the course of a decade.
The 62-year-old man is accused of 22 cases of sexual abuse, several of which have been deemed as “severe abuse” by prosecutors. He could face up to 15 years in prison.
The defendant’s lawyer, Hermann Christoph Kühn, read off an explanation of the crimes at the beginning of the trial, which the man later confirmed to be true.
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