Post by Administration on Mar 20, 2010 20:30:29 GMT
Pope's former Munich diocese faces 'tsunami' of sexual abuse claims
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 3:37 PM on 19th March 2010
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1259246/Popes-Munich-diocese-faces-tsunami-sexual-abuse-claims.html#ixzz0ikbezBGF
Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese in Munich says it is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis.
'It is like a tsunami,' Elke Huemmeler, head of the diocese's newly founded sexual abuse prevention task force, told The Associated Press.
Huemmeler estimates there are about 120 cases on the record to date, around 100 of them at the nearby Ettal monastery boarding school, run by Benedictine monks.
It comes as the Pope is set to write a pastoral letter to the Catholic Church in Ireland following similar abuse scandals there.
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 3:37 PM on 19th March 2010
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1259246/Popes-Munich-diocese-faces-tsunami-sexual-abuse-claims.html#ixzz0ikbezBGF
Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese in Munich says it is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis.
'It is like a tsunami,' Elke Huemmeler, head of the diocese's newly founded sexual abuse prevention task force, told The Associated Press.
Huemmeler estimates there are about 120 cases on the record to date, around 100 of them at the nearby Ettal monastery boarding school, run by Benedictine monks.
It comes as the Pope is set to write a pastoral letter to the Catholic Church in Ireland following similar abuse scandals there.