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Daniel_Cheung
02-01-2010, 07:46 PM
Germany's top Jesuit says order did not respond properly to evidence of sexual abuse
http://www.wpix.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-germany-school-abuse,0,6721934.story

Germany's top Jesuit apologized Monday for serial sexual abuse apparently committed by two priests at one of the country's most prestigious high schools, saying there was evidence of it for years but Jesuit officials did not "react the way it would have been necessary."

At least 20 students were sexually abused by the two priests at Berlin's private Catholic Canisius Kolleg in the 1970s and 1980s, the school's director Father Klaus Mertes said at a joint press conference with Father Stefan Dartmann, the head of the Jesuit order of Germany, on Monday evening at Canisius Kolleg....