Ulrich
Weber, the lawyer representing the alleged victims from the Regensburger
Domspatzen boys' choir in Bavaria (which
traces its roots to the year 975), said the longtime head of the cathedral
choir, Georg Ratzinger – (brother of former Pope Benedict
XVI-RATzinger ) -- must have known of the numerous cases of sexual and
physical mistreatments as he was the head of the prestigious choir from the mid-60s to the mid-90s -- during the period
of almost four decades of sex abuses. Weber said, “After my research, I must
assume so.”
Weber said, I have here 231 reports of physical abuse…. 50
victims spoke of 10 perpetrators…victims could go up to 700 because at least every third child out of the
2,100 pupils in the choir and an attached school suffered and had been
subjected to physical violence. These ranged from beatings to food deprivation,
sexual assault and rape. However, the actual number of victims could be much
higher.http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2016/01/spotlight-on-germany-231-choir-boys.html