the Massive sexual abuse, violence, Prostitution: Serious allegations back to a former Catholic home for maladjusted boys in the crosshairs of the justice and bring the Church and its work of enlightenment once more under pressure.
preliminary investigations against a former educator
The public Prosecutor’s office Munich II has initiated preliminary investigations against a former educator, a former youth village of Pius’s home in Bavaria near Munich, and at that time aspiring priests. The authority informed on request of the German press Agency.
the Background of the investigations are allegations of a massive sexual abuse, in the context of a process before the regional court Munich II. A 56-year-old man, who is himself accused of a serious abuse of small children, had given before the court, to be in his Childhood and youth, among other things, in the Pius home by several men of having been abused.
He described the Horrific, the language of Prostitution, from “Buy” and “sex parties”. “90 percent of boys went on the weekend and robbed the villagers, 10 per cent went to the Buy to Munich.” Two of his friends had hanged himself – one of them in the shower with a scarf of 1860 Munich. Also, he had tried as a child to take his own life.
the allegations not previously assignable
to Prove these allegations is not currently. “If the details prove to be resilient and whether, finally, a criminal prosecution can be done, can not yet be told,” stresses attorney Karin Young.
The Archdiocese of Munich-Freising dpa confirmed, however, on request, in connection with the 2006 closed facility since 2010, nine of the suspected cases due to sexual Assault or physical violence were reported. All the cases occurred, according to the Catholic youth care from the 1950s until the mid-1970s. The boys, who were cared for in the Pius home as “hard to train”, were between 6 and 18 years old, most of them older than 14.
In two cases, payments for the recognition of the suffering “had” been done, says diocese spokesman Christoph Kappes. Once, it was a priest, the alleged victim but not specifically able to identify. The allegations were so credible that the diocese paid anyway. In a second case, the Catholic youth care have taken the payment because it was in the alleged offender is not a priest, but an educator.
defender: “Yes, This is a second Ettal”
The defender of the accused, Anja Kollmann, holds the testimony of your client is absolutely authentic. The 56-Year-old had hinted to her in advance of the trial what happened to him in his youth. He told the court in such detail about it, you’ve surprised myself, the Dimension of the Whole have shocked you. “Yes, this is a second of Ettal.”
In the upper Bavarian Benedictine monastery of Ettal had been mainly students from privileged families informed, which were later mostly good Jobs and eventually were able to talk about what had happened to them, says psychology Professor Heiner Keupp, accompanied for the center Bavaria family and social Affairs, the study by the Institute for practice research and project consulting to the Situation of children in children’s homes in the 50s, 60s and 1970s. “But in these homes, especially children from difficult backgrounds, could what happened to them, to exchange and reflect were.”
violence in the ’50s and’ 60s
not much is documented about the Pius home. It was performed according to the Catholic youth (KJF) in October 1905 by the Catholic “Association for the care of neglected and determination-free youth” founded. The KJF, the sponsorship took over at the 1. October 1981, and gave them to the 30. June 2006 on.
In the book “obedience, order, Religion. Religious home education, 1945-1975,” from the year 2012, the authors of violence, writing in the 1950/60s. And from a “morals offense,” which brought educators “in custody”.
This could only be the tip of the iceberg: The country Berger is a psychotherapist, Günther mills, made at the beginning of the 1970s, an internship in the Pius home, reported by a senior teacher who “had to acknowledge after my time” because of the sexual abuse of children and young people to his service.
speaker of the victims of the initiative: “I’m sure we will still have Surprises,”
In the so-called MHG-study for work-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, which documented thousands of cases, not managed by the allegations, which were brought to Pius home to the diocese, almost all of them. Only a case of suspicion, the priest emerges as spokesman, Kappes says, among other things, because it was otherwise to the educator or the indications have remained vague. Also in the “Roberts report” on abuse in the diocese of the Pius home does not appear the information after. The Archbishop was here, Benedict from 1977 to 1982, Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope.
The spokesman for the victims Initiative “Rectangular table”, Matthias Katsch, hopes that all former residents of the St. Pius home report. “I’m sure we will still experience some Surprises.”
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