Germany: Catholic Priest Arrested On 267 Counts Of Child Sexual Abuse
A 46-year old unnamed priest in Salzgitter, Germany, has been arrested and indicted on 267 counts of child sexual abuse, involving at least three boys over a seven-year period.
“The 46-year old man is accused of repeated sexual assault on at least three boys aged between 9 and 15 since 2004 in the northern town of Salzgitter, where he ran a parish,” BNO reports. “No date has been set for the trial, the dpa news agency reported.
“In 2006, Catholic authorities came under fire for taking no action when they learned that the priest slept with a boy in his bed one night. But the Diocese of Hildesheim has argued that there were no sexual contact allegations at the time.
“The priest, who has confessed to most of the charges to detectives, was ordered to stop seeing the boy after the boy’s family complained. The man, who has been in pretrial custody since July, was later arrested, according to the news report.”
In the United States, over 10,000 victims of the Church’s pedophile priests have been documented. U.S. Church dioceses have paid almost $3 billion in settlements.
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