A lawyer investigating accusations of abuse in a Benedictine monastery school in Ettal presented a final report to the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising Monday, including 173 pages of victims’ accounts of abuse.

My investigations quite clearly show that for decades up until around 1990, children and adolescents were brutally abused in the Ettal monastery

— Thomas Pfister said in a statement.

The number of victims’ accounts has increased significantly since the intermediary report of March 5

— added Pfister, who said last month that hundreds of pupils had been beaten and some sexually abused at the school.

The lawyer said there had been very extreme cases of mishandling at the school in Ettal in southern Bavaria which would normally have been punished with long prison sentences.

He also said that one monk now dead had committed “serial sexual harassment and sexual abuse on small and older children.”

Reuters Article here…

The Pope MUST be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity.

If no-one else steps up to the plate then I shall, despite ill-health.

Post Scriptum:

I nearly missed this good, nay excellent, bit at the end of the article, due to a red rage obscuring my vision:

Thousands quit the Church in the last month.

That may well be a start on the hard road toward “growing up”. If they abandon their infantile reliance on being told what to do, what to think, how to live, how to treat their fellow human-beings that is.

Often leaving one cult only leads to joining another that offers even more bogus easy-but-false answers to how to avoid the hard work of THINKING for one’s-self.