Investigators into Catholic clerical sex abuse warn of ‘dark field’ beyond cases examined
The Cathedral of Brixen in South Tyrol, Italy . A report presented on Monday found at least 59 people were abused by 41 abusing clerics in the diocese of Bozen-Brixen between 1964 and 2023. Photograph: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images, from the diocese of Bozen-Brixen in South Tyrol, has revealed at least 67 cases of sexual abuse in the period 1964-2023.
“He was transferred, transferred, transferred, transferred, transferred until, almost 50 years later, someone in 2010 had the courage to remove him from pastoral work,” said Dr Ulrich Wastl, a Munich-based lawyer and chief investigator in the Bozen-Brixen study.Are centre-right parties in Europe opening the door to far-right populists?
Some 1,000 files were viewed by investigators and, the report added, “experience shows that, beyond this, is a ‘dark field’ of cases not brought to light”. “The perpetrators are often charismatic types who know their counterparts and their vulnerabilities,” he added. “This is the first diocese in Italy that has done such a thorough exercise of truth about the cases of abuse,” said Fr Zollner, a Jesuit priest and professor at the Gregorian University in Rome. He said it remained to be seen whether the revelations in South Tyrol, with its strong German-language identity, would spread to the rest of Italy.
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