September 01, 2010
German Bishops Order Child-Sex Charges Reported To Police - Summary
TRIER, Germany -- Germany's Catholic bishops have ordered all future allegations of child molestation to be reported to police, said Stephan Ackermann, the bishop in charge of the issue, on Tuesday. The guidelines, replacing 2002 German rules that gave church officials some discretion whether to call police over unproven allegations, are to go into force on Wednesday, said Ackermann. The church has faced criticism around the globe that it failed to properly investigate child-sex allegations against church staff, or kept the cases secret, or re-assigned guilty priests to new jobs where children were again at risk.Click Here For The Full Story......