Another case of mass sexual abuse by the Catholic Church in Germany has come to public light wherein nuns belonging to the Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne in Germany literally pimped orphaned boys to businessmen and clergy for there sexual pleasure, the Organiser reported.
However, instead of taking action against them, the Church in its habitual manner did its best to suppress the report about horrific acts of rape and sexual abuse against young boys facilitated by nuns, according to the Daily Beast.
The investigation concluded last month and resulted in a lawsuit brought against the archdiocese by victims. Though the findings were confidential, the report is said to have been leaked to several media outlets.
Sections of the 560-page report purportedly seen by the Daily Beast detail how nuns who ran a convent in Speyer, Germany between the 1960s and 1970s “rented” orphaned boys to businessmen and clergy, who abused the children, sometimes for weeks at a time, before ‘returning’ them.
One of the chilling details from the report that has emerged is that some of the orphans were forced to participate in “gang bangs and orgies” before being returned to the convent where the nuns would discipline them for having “wrinkled their clothes or being covered in semen.”
As many as 175 children, most of them boys between the ages of 8 and 14, were abused for over two decades and many of them were intentionally barred from being adopted or taken into a foster home so the nuns could continue to pimp them out, the probe allegedly found.
But in its usual fashion, the investigation declined to directly blame the nuns involved in this sick racket, arguing instead that the “abuse was the result of “systematic” management errors and the “leniency” accorded to those accused of taking part in the abominable crimes”, the Beast reported.
The man who is the driving force behind the suppression of this mass sexual abuse by the Catholic nuns and the clergy done on these boys is Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, a conservative clergyman, archbishop of Cologne.
He is known for resisting reforms within the Catholic Church and even under mounting criticism he tried to block the release of the independent report on abuse committed by members of his diocese.
The archdiocese had refused to make the report public and demanded that journalists who view the documents sign a confidentiality agreement when a press conference was held.
However, the journalists refused the immoral demand of the Catholic Church of signing a confidentiality agreement and walked out, refusing to abide by the Church’s terms.
In a very rare public rebuke, Tim Kurzbach, head of the council, in a statement criticized Cardinal Woelki and said, “he had completely failed as a moral authority and the Church is the biggest crisis that has ever experienced. Those responsible must finally also take responsibility,” the statement continued. “We need clarity now. Otherwise, we have no chance of getting out of this misery.
The statement added: “Don’t wait until Rome decides or a legal expert tells you what you have done wrong.”
In another damming report, the German Bishops’ Conference showed that 1,670 clergymen had committed some form of sexual attack against 3,677 minors, mostly boys, between 1946 and 2014.
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