3 minutes agoFormer German priest sentenced to prison after sexually abusing children
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(8 years ago)A former German Catholic priest who won the trust of his congregation as “Father Thomas” has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for at least 108 counts of sexual abuse of children and possession of child pornography. The 53-year-old will suffer years of therapy at a closed psychiatric institution before [...]
The 53-year-old will suffer years of therapy at a closed psychiatric institution before the start of his prison term, a court in the southeastern town of Deggendorf decided on Thursday, “Day Welt” reported.
Treatment for the man, born in Huppertal, a town in Nordrhein-Westfalen, will take <x0... too much, many” years, Justice Chief Thomas Trauteiin said, wondering if it would be successful, adding that “pedophilia is not healing. ”
The judge spoke of a terrible “ ” disaster the defendant had caused by “the destruction of children's souls”, reports “RT” Transmission Periscope.
The attacker was found guilty of the sexual abuse of five boys under 14 in 108 cases committed between 1997 and 2016 in Germany and abroad.
The abuses, including the rape of an 18-year-old girl, were carried out mainly around German towns of Mainz and Deggendorf, as well as in Poland, Italy, Austria and Switzerland, <x0Der Spiegel” reported./Periscopi/
