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A Catholic priest was reported to have died in the 1970s in the Rhede town of North Rhine-Westphalia with many children. Now it has been learned that the man had already been found guilty of badual abuse.
At an information event organized in the affected parish "The Holy Family" in Rhede, in the west of Münster, the diocese of Münster explained the more detailed context. As a result, the man ordained priest in 1964 was sentenced in 1968 by the Bochum District Court to a suspended sentence for fornication with a dependent child.
Nevertheless, the bishop of the diocese of Münster, Reinhard Lettmann, died in 2013, transferred the chaplain to Rhede in 1971. There, the priest went to the diocesan information to many children. The exact number is unknown.
Mgr excuse
The Deputy Vicar General of the Diocese, Jochen Reidegeld, apologized to the victims at Rhede during the meeting on behalf of Bishop Felix Genn. Reidegeld asked her own church to facilitate women's access to ministries as quickly as possible and to dismantle structures such as "male alliances", considered the cause of concealment for abuse in the church .
The Catholic Church presented a study on badual abuse in September. According to this information, between 1946 and 2014, at least 1670 Catholic clerics allegedly abused 3677 minors. In the Diocese of Münster, 138 clergy found references to allegations of badual abuse of minors.
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