Church cover-up of child abuse scandal in Germany

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[Tony_1975]

This has happened all over the world. The only reasonable explanation for this is that it is a policy decision made high up in the catholic church.

[perprojustice]

People are the same the world over so the same crimes will be committed.
I think that this poses a different question and that is

Are these molesters suffering from a disorder?. Are they helpless at controlling their urges? are they cureable? should we be sponsoring research into what triggers these incidents?

[corelli]

Unter Brüdern - Artikel - SPIEGEL WISSEN - Lexikon, Wikipedia und SPIEGEL-Archiv

The article linked above describes a church cover-up of the activities of a Bavarian priest implicated in several unconnected cases of child abuse. The circumstances and the pattern of behaviour is almost identical to that uncovered in various cases in Ireland.

Some posters here (I can't find the threads) have been defending a view that clerical child abuse is more or less exclusive to the church in the anglo-saxon world, and hardly affects other catholic countries.

This argument is wearing increasingly thin.

This article speaks of one to two cases of catholic clerical abuse cases in Germany per year:
"Zölibat nur freiwillig" - Artikel - SPIEGEL WISSEN - Lexikon, Wikipedia und SPIEGEL-Archiv

Agressive,

There has been huge problems in Germany and Austria in relation to these various allegations of abuse. Remember Hans Hermann Groer?

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[Tony_1975]

People are the same the world over so the same crimes will be committed.
I think that this poses a different question and that is

Are these molesters suffering from a disorder?. Are they helpless at controlling their urges? are they cureable? should we be sponsoring research into what triggers these incidents?

You're right, people are the same everywhere. That would explain why there are child abusers everywhere.
Also most people everywhere would be horrified by these crimes and would go straight to the police on learning that they have taken place. Not in the catholic church though. Why is that? The only explanation is that they did as they were instructed.