PRIESTS RAPED HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS AT ELITE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
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The Local
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The headmaster of an elite Jesuit high school in Berlin has sent a
letter to former students asking them to come forward about
systematic sexual abuse by priests there in the 1970s and 1980s.
His letter was sent to some 600 former students at Canisius College
who may have been victims of at least two priests on staff, Father
Klaus Mertes told daily Berliner Morgenpost on Thursday.
"With deep shock and shame, I have learned of these horrific, not
only isolated, but systematic violations that went on for years,"
wrote Mertes, who has been headmaster of the central Berlin school
for 10 years.
The headmaster said he did not know how many children might have been
abused by the priests, who he said left the school in the 1980s.
"The weight of the incidents overwhelmed me," he told the paper. "I
have promised the victims full discretion. They are free to go to the
public or the police."
But so far no criminal complaints have been filed, the paper
reported.
The Canisius College is one of just three private Jesuit schools in
the country and has educated well-known economic and political
leaders.
In recent years isolated reports of abuse surfaced, Mertes said. But
after an internal document about the abuse was recently sent out,
more former students came forward. Their stories convinced him that
the abuse had taken place systematically over several years.
"I feel obligated to the students above all, and not as much to the
reputation of the school or myself," Mertes told the paper.
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kangarooistan
Thats WHY they run Elite Christian Schools isnt it ??
Supply a ready reserve of kids for the Ruling Elites to select their
next victims ??
kanga
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P. Rajah
Written by Neeta Lal
Wednesday, 02 May 2007
An overwhelming number of India�s children face unwanted attention from
sexual predators.
After a brilliant 16-year-old New Delhi girl repeatedly complained last
month that her mathematics teacher was �touching and fondling her
private parts,� the upshot was a long way from what anybody bargained
for. When the girl�s parents complained, the principal called them
�regressive� and blamed them for damaging the school�s reputation. The
girl now stays at home to help cook and clean, her school bag lying in a
locked cupboard, her scholastic career over.
The story of the girl, referred to only as Seema, is depressingly
familiar, resonating across large parts of India, where abuse is a a
startling everyday reality for as many as half of the country�s
children, according to a just-released 13-state National Study on Child
Sexual Abuse conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development,
UNICEF and Save The Children.
It is a long-hidden issue that India is finally beginning to wrestle
with. The government moved recently to establish a National Commission
for Protection of Children's Rights and plans are afoot to present an
Offences Against Children (Prevention) Bill in the Parliament. The
proposed document has specific sections dealing with various crimes
against children, including sale/transfer, sexual assault,
sexual/physical/emotional abuse, commercial sexual exploitation, child
pornography, grooming for sexual purpose, incest, corporal punishment,
bullying and economic exploitation.
The scale of abuse, according to the national study, is far worse than
anybody had thought. It reports that 69 per cent of all Indian children
are victims of physical, mental or emotional abuse, with New Delhi�s
children facing an astounding abuse rate of 83.12 percent.
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=476&Itemid=34
P. Rajah
ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR
Sexual abuse of children is a very real problem in India, and the
situation is aided by the absence of effective legislation and the
silence that surrounds the offence.
I am filled with shame, disgust, guilt and low self-esteem. What I
thought all along was affection, I realise now - after 12 years of
sexual relationship with my uncle - was sexual abuse.
- Anjana, 15 years.
SHOCKINGLY, over half the children in the country share Anjana's
anguish. India has the dubious distinction of having the world's largest
number of sexually abused children with a child below 16 years raped
every 155th minute, a child below 10 every 13th hour, and one in every
10 children sexually abused at any point in time. These figures
resoundingly break the silence that surrounds sexual abuse of children
and perpetuates the evil.
PILAR CAPURRO/AP
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), one in every four
girls and one in every seven boys in the world are sexually abused. But
Lois J. Engelbrecht, a researcher working on the problems of child
sexual abuse, quotes studies showing that over 50 per cent of children
in India are sexually abused, a rate that is higher than in any other
country (see interview).
http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl2021/stories/20031024001609000.htm