German Priest Admits 280 Counts of Sexual Abuse, Thought He Was Doing No Harm
January 14th, 2012Via: BBC:
A German Catholic priest has admitted 280 counts of sexual abuse involving three boys in the past decade, saying he did not think he was doing harm.
Named only as Andreas L, the priest told a court in Braunschweig that he had first abused the nine-year-old son of a widowed woman parishioner.
After being banned by his diocese from making further contact with the boy, he abused two brothers, aged nine and 13.
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Sexual assaults were made on the three boys in various settings: at the priest’s house, on skiing holidays, in a parental home, on a trip to Disneyland Paris and at a church shortly before Mass.
When asked in court if he was a paedophile, he replied… “It would be wrong to say No but to say Yes would also fall short of the truth.”
i think says all anyone needs to about the trust building and relationships that have been a staple of the catholic tradition of systemic abuse and cycling for millenia. or maybe its a new thing, ive been wrong before.