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Catholic Church thwarts child abuse investigation
Published: 9 Jan 13 08:44 CET | Print version
Updated: 9 Jan 13 10:09 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130109-47215.html
Church officials have apparently thwarted a comprehensive investigation into widespread child abuse at Catholic institutions in Germany.
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He said the institute had already been told by the Church that its services would no longer be needed after the KFN refused to comply. This will be confirmed in a letter from the Association of German Dioceses (VDD) to the KFN in the coming days, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Wednesday.
The project had been scuppered by the "censorship and control requests of the Church," Pfeiffer told the paper.
The cooperation had been contractually agreed in July 2011, and was to be the most thorough investigation of its kind in the world, the KFN said. The complete files of all of Germany's dioceses - some dating as far back as World War II - were to be scrutinized for evidence of child abuse.
But last year, the Church demanded changes to the contract following complaints from priests and some bishops. These alterations included giving the Church the power to veto the publication of results and the appointment of new researchers.
Pfeiffer also said there were indications that the Church had destroyed incriminating files in several dioceses, a claim denied by VDD Chairman Hans Langendörfer. "I have no evidence that abuse files were destroyed," he said.
A spokesman for the archdiocese of Munich and Freising rejected Pfeiffer's claims, saying that there was absolutely no grounds for talk of "censorship requests."
Instead, the discussion had been about "how the unconditional will for clarification in the interests of the victims could be brought together with the necessary duty of care towards church workers." He added that the main issue was data protection.
Revelations in 2010 of child abuse at the Catholic Canisius School in Berlin unleashed a wave of allegations against the Church in Germany.
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Germans are generally considered a logical people. Why do they pay such exhorbitant church taxes to these paedos? It defies logic.
Seems to me that the Catholic church might be a criminal activity.
Might be!!!!!!!!!!
If you and me consistently hid the actions of criminals and paedophiles, we would be arrested and charged with perverting the course of justice, Aiding and abetting criminal, harbouring a fugitive to name a potential few....
Why should members of the catholic church receive different treatment from anyone else?
For the same reasons politicians think that should.......They all think they are better than the rest of us!!
I am surprised that so many Germans are still Catholics!
(Mother, Father - your children are in harm¦#39;s way!)
A video look at how the Archdiocese of St. Paul & Mpls keeps Native American children in harm¦#39;s way:
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Accused: Deacon Joe Damiani http://mnsnap.wordpress.com/child-protection-alert-damiani
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Immediately arrest those. They obviously have something to hide.
Neither the church, nor the railway service, can be blamed when some of those working for them do not keep to the rules.
Should the Green party ( they have 15% of the vote in some places), not also be dragged through the dirt? Some of their founder members openly asked for sex with children, to be made legal!
Wherever there is an organisation in which hundreds of people are involved, there will be some who misuse their positions.
What is needed, is a general cleanup in all forms of public life. The individuals who commit the offences should be punished and made to pay for any follow-up costs for the treatment of their victims. Unfortunately, even in judicial circles, there is a tendency to differentiate between various groups of persons, according to their status in society. The best example to come to mind just now is the former President Wulff and his wife. Equal treatment, as foreseen in the written Constitution, remains a farce.
On the other hand, if ordinary Catholics have done nothing wrong, why should their church taxes be used to pay damages for something with which they have had nothing to do? It is just as illogical, as to ask taxpayers in Munich, to pay for the mess made at the new aerodrome in Berlin. There too, the individuals who made the mistakes should also foot the bill. Everything else is unjustifiable.