Sex parties and forced prostitution in a Catholic youth home?
In 2020, violent allegations of abuse against the Piusheim near Munich became known.
Now a judgment is to be made.
Baiern
- Massive
sexual abuse
, violence,
prostitution
: Serious
allegations of abuse
in the former
Catholic Piusheim
near
Munich
are still preoccupying the Munich II public prosecutor.
In the meantime, ten people affected have reported to the investigators, as the public prosecutor announced on request.
According to a spokesman, a total of eleven
suspected cases were received
at the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
.
The documents were also forwarded to the authorities.
It was unclear to what extent the reports to the public prosecutor's office and the archdiocese overlap.
Piusheim near Munich: verdict expected in the abuse process - public prosecutor calls for 12 years in prison
The
process
that triggered all this and led the public prosecutor to start preliminary investigations
is expected to end this Friday before the Munich II regional court
.
A grandfather, who himself has been accused of years of
serious abuse
of his grandchildren and their friends on a
massive
scale, had testified in court that he
had been
severely abused by several men
as a youth in the Catholic Church's home
.
He spoke of
sex parties
and
prostitution,
and of a classmate taking his own life in the home.
The prosecutor has
asked for him to be
imprisoned
for
twelve years
.
Preliminary investigations were initially directed against a former educator of the former youth village Piusheim in
Baiern (Ebersberg district)
near Munich and a clergyman.
However, the details of those affected are very vague and the names of the accused are unclear, said a spokeswoman for the prosecutor.
"In the course of the preliminary investigations, neither concrete acts nor concrete accused could be identified so far".
The work continues and is
"protracted due to Corona and foreign relations".
Cases of abuse in the Piusheim near Munich: Processing is difficult
The
Catholic Church
is also finding it difficult to identify the alleged perpetrators.
"According to those affected, the attacks occurred between the late 1950s and mid-1970s," says the spokesman for the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, Christoph Kappes.
“In two cases, applications were made for
the suffering recognized
In both cases, the corresponding payments were made. ”In the other cases, no applications were made and the incidents in the
home
,
which has
been closed
for
15 years,
have not been fully clarified.
According to the archdiocese, this was due to the fact that third parties reported an incident that they witnessed - or because those affected broke off contact with the
diocese's
abuse
officers.
"Since the accused could not be identified
beyond
doubt, neither the archdiocese nor the
Piusheim
sponsor
could
take action here." Possibly, says Kappes, the accused are also dead.
Baiern / Munich: Cases of abuse in the community are a big topic
Immediately
after the massive allegations of abuse became known, several
victims and witnesses reported
to the
victims' initiative "Eckiger Tisch"
in April 2020
.
"According to the descriptions that reach me, it was a hell of a facility," said the initiative's spokesman, Matthias Katsch.
The incidents were also discussed in the municipality of Baiern itself, says
Mayor Martin Riedl.
“
We didn't know anything about
the
allegations
until then.
We were all shocked here. ”Not much has happened since then.
"Neither the investigators nor the victims came to us," he says.
"Our community is in the
workup
not involved, and is not planned anything on our part to, as this does not fall within our remit."
"The entire home area is still underexposed and that is
why Piusheim is
so important," says the Munich social psychologist Heiner Keupp, who is a member of the independent commission set
up
by the German Bundestag to
deal with child sexual abuse
.
The processing of the events in the
Piusheim
is one of the great tasks that the Archdiocese of Munich has to cope with.
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