A Catholic priest is supposed to have in the seventies in the North Rhine-Westphalian small-town of Rhede in numerous children passed. Now it became known that the man had previously been convicted of sexual abuse.
At a information meeting in the affected parish “Holy family” in Rhede in the münsterland with the diocese of Münster explained the more detailed backgrounds. Therefore, in 1964, to the priests, consecrated man, in 1968, was sentenced by the district court of Bochum to a suspended sentence because of fornication with dependent child.
Nevertheless, the 2013 deceased Bishop of the diocese of Münster, Reinhard Lettmann shifted, the chaplain in 1971, according to Rhede. There, the priest passed to the bishopric of information to numerous children. The exact number is not known.
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The Deputy vicar General of the diocese, Jochen Reidegeld, asked the victim in Rhede at the meeting in the name of Bishop Felix Genn for forgiveness. Reidegeld called on his own Church, to allow women access to public Offices as quickly as possible, and structures such as “men’s clubs” to break up, cause of the cover-up for abuse in the Church.
The Catholic Church had presented in September a study of sexual abuse. Thus, between 1946 and 2014, a minimum of 1670, a Catholic cleric should have 3677 minors abused. In the diocese of Münster references to allegations of sexual abuse of minors were found in 138 of the clerics.
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