A report commissioned by the bishopric of Trier, in western Germany, revealed this Friday that in a Catholic boarding school in the region, closed in 1983the students were subjected to sexual abuse and physical violence for decades.
The report collects the testimonies of 54 alumni who resided at the Albertinum boarding school, located between Trier and Bonn, between 1946 and 1983; Many of them present psychological sequelae due to the experiences they lived back then.
the testimonials a total of 12 employees of the boarding school are charged of regularly using physical violence – which falls under the category of “child abuse” according to the authors of the report – to punish students for even the most trivial infractions.
In addition, the three directors of the institution, all of them priestsas well as a layman, exercised violence of a sexual nature and according to the report they even raped some students.
The authors of the document emphasize that the students were totally isolated from the outside world, something that the alleged perpetrators encouraged to guarantee “his position of unlimited power.”
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One of those affected, Marzellus Boos, whose brother, also a student at the boarding school, died by suicide as a result of abuseaffirmed this Thursday in statements to the public channel SWR that “the real culprits are in the bishopric.”
Bishop Stephan Ackermann, who had commissioned the report, He claimed to be “painfully moved” after the presentation of the document, as well as “ashamed” that children and adolescents suffered in a bishop’s establishment, whose purpose would have been “to promote the development of their personality and give them an opportunity for the future.”
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In a statement, Ackermann called the boarding school’s decades of abuse a “black page in history” and vowed to make it “learn from this situation” and draw “consequences” looking to the future.
The news comes a few weeks after a report commissioned by the archdiocese of Munich and Freising triggered serious criticism against church officials, including the pope emeritus. Benedict XVI for having covered up or ignored several cases of abuse. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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