Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a leading anti-abuse
expert and a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of
Minors, called a report documenting hundreds of cases of physical and
sexual abuse at a German boys' choir "shocking," and warned that as the
taboo lifts in other parts of the world, similar accounts are likely to
keep emerging.
ROME - A recent German report documenting hundreds of cases of physical
and sexual abuse at a famed boys choir in Regensburg, led for part of
the seventy-year span covered in the report by Pope Benedict XVI’s
brother, was “shocking,” according to one of the Church’s leading
experts on child abuse - and what’s worse, he warns, the story hardly
ends there.