A former longtime director and several teachers are accused of
physically abusing children over decades at the school of the most
well-known children's choir in Germany, the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Regensburg said Tuesday.
Seventy-two children who went to the school for the Regensburger
Domspatzen choir have stepped forward to say they were abused from 1953
to 1992, the diocese in the southern state of Bavaria said. They said
they were hit with fists, rods and a bunch of keys.