{"id":524917,"date":"2010-04-12T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12883"},"modified":"2010-04-12T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:45:41","slug":"pupils-%e2%80%9csadistically-tormented%e2%80%9d-at-german-catholic-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/524917","title":{"rendered":"Pupils \u201csadistically tormented\u201d at German Catholic monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ettal monastery, March 3, 2010\/Johannes Eisele <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Children were “sadistically tormented and also sexually abused”<\/em> at a Catholic monastery in Pope Benedict’s native Bavaria, according to a new report commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

A lawyer investigating accusations of abuse in a Benedictine monastery school in Ettal presented a final report to the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising on Monday, including 173 pages of victims’ accounts of abuse.<\/p>\n

“My investigations quite clearly show that for decades up until around 1990, children and adolescents were brutally abused in the Ettal monastery,”<\/em> Thomas Pfister said in a statement.\u00a0 “The number of victims’ accounts has increased significantly since the intermediary report of March 5<\/a>,”<\/em> added Pfister, who said last month that hundreds of pupils had been beaten and some sexually abused at the school.<\/p>\n

An archdiocese spokesman said he could not comment on the specific number of victims before a news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

A growing sex abuse scandal has rocked confidence in Germany’s Catholic Church.\u00a0 A survey published on Monday found that a quarter of the country’s Catholics were considering quitting the church<\/a> in the wake of reports of hundreds of cases, some many decades old, of sexual abuse by clerics.<\/p>\n

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Ettal monastery, March 3, 2010\/Johannes Eisele Children were “sadistically tormented and also sexually abused” at a Catholic monastery in Pope Benedict’s native Bavaria, according to a new report commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church. A lawyer investigating accusations of abuse in a Benedictine monastery school in Ettal presented a final report to the Archdiocese of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}