The scandal of sexual abuse of students at the Jesuits always draws larger circles. First indications of abuse there were already 1981st “Battering teachers were normal,” says a former student. The head of the German Jesuit wants to explain.
Over 1,000 emails he had received in recent days, said Stefan Dartmann, the Provincial of the Jesuit order, including letters from victims of sexual abuse by two Jesuit Wolfgang S. and Peter R.. “Even if we had then appealed to the public, none of us would have believed,” had written him a man. It had shaken him, “said the religious leader. He had come, therefore, also on Monday in Berlin to say to the victims: “We believe you.” Dartmann asserted that he “wanted to cover up anything.”
Then the monk explained that he had been about the “misuse of history” of the two perpetrators Wolfgang S. and Peter R., who taught until 1979 or 1981 at Canisius College. Were also the places where they worked after leaving Berlin, the two “excesses” have become, “said Dartmann. This went on in 1982 by Peter R. Berlin to Gottingen to develop youth work for parishes. There he was suspected of having molested girls. 1986 an assassination has been committed to Peter R., who wounded him slightly. When he returned after a training station in Mexico to Germany, it has the religious leadership on leave and advised him to withdraw. In 1995, he has resigned from the Order, but was then withdrawn from the Bishop of Hildesheim in service - despite a complaint from a mother in Hildesheim that he compared to the 14-year-old daughter had excesses “has become. “What did the Bishop of Hildesheim, from prehistory to the priest, the investigation revealed,” said Dartmann.
According Dartmann was the second perpetrator, Father Wolfgang S., from 1975 to 1979 as a teacher of German, religion and sport at Canisius College and then to 1982 at the St. Ansgar School in Hamburg.
Also reported there are now three former pupils, which will have to p. out of print, according to the director of the gymnasium. One is to be understood to have indicated that could be expected with the disclosure of additional victims. From 1982 to 1984 worked at the College of S. St Blaise in the Black Forest. The Berlin Father had revealed to him, “said the former director of the school. He had informed the religious leadership, have left the school p. 1984th In 1985 he went to Chile in 1992 and stepped out of the medals. In Hamburg and Baden-Wuerttemberg, he was in mental health care, like decorations provincial Stefan Dartmann informed.
In a questionnaire on transfer back to the laity had p. 1991, his sexual assaults in St. Blaise, and even stood in Hamburg, said Dartmann. These would have consisted in an “excessive corporal punishment ritual”, but not in sexual intercourse. In the questionnaire he had been promised confidentiality, so we did not see him, “said Dartmann. The paper had been sent to Rome and now lie under wraps.
The first sign of abuse is a letter from 1981 to the school principal, to the religious superiors and to the archdiocese, had complained in the outgoing students of the college is just about the sex education of Father R., and asked for an interview. Dartmann the letter has now been found in the archives of the Order. Apparently he had remained unanswered, “said the religious leader. “I do not understand why this letter has achieved nothing,” said Father Klaus Mertes, the rector of the College on Monday. “Since students have responded with great courage grievances. So you have to ask for it immediately. I am ashamed that nothing was done.”
Father Karl-Heinz Fischer, who led the Canisius College from 1981 to 1989, said by telephone that he had learned during his tenure, neither the letter nor any abuse allegations. “The overall picture was” but then revealed that Peter R. is unsuitable for the youth, “said Fischer. He had his former boss, the head of the Jesuits in northern Germany and former rector, Father Rolf Dieter post notified. The latter had ordered the transfer .
This Monday also announced the first Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky extensively to speak. To prevent future cases of abuse, he urged parents and teachers to educate kids early about sexuality. In an interview with the RBB, he turned directly to the children: “If something strange happens to you, then you have to cough up with it, then you have to trust you to the parents.”
Father Mertes said, when in 1994 came to the school, he had heard rumors of sexual abuse of students. Since then, he had raised this issue at every class reunions and signals the former students that he had an open ear for it. 2006 was the first time, then a victim in writing, speaking for a small group. 2008 had reported to another former student, who spoke for another victim. Only through the testimony of victims of last December and early January it was the “systematic nature of the offense” became clear. An important contribution to make amends to the victims was the rigorous education, “said Mertes.
“Who has known the Order and the school principals what is now identifying Ursula Raue,” said Chief Dartmann orders. Presumably, the offenses were barred - “what is perhaps a scandal.” Much talk that the actions are barred, “said Martin also Steltner, spokesman for the Berlin prosecutor’s office. The prosecutor has also examined whether the church had committed an offense. So far, however, was not apparent that the religious superiors have tolerated the abuse.
Several ex-pupils elite Catholic high schools reported the Tagesspiegel on Sunday and humiliations of targeted usual flogging. Beatings as a means of education shall be prohibited in the Federal Republic since 1973. But there was still the mid-80s, told a Berlin lawyer, given to a college on the Lower slaps and blows. “Battering teachers were completely normal,” said the man, who had visited the school to ninth grade.
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