Regional bishop: Mistakes in dealing with sexual violence. Ralf Meister referred those affected who were abused in church as children to lawyers instead of taking care of them personally as Hanover's regional bishop.
A deacon in the community who died in 2018 is accused of sexually abusing at least eight children, some of them seriously. According to the report, church officials covered up the acts described by parents in the 1970s, and the cases were not even mentioned in the man's termination letter in 1977.