At least 547 children in Germany’s world-famous Regensburger Domspatzen boy’s choir have been confirmed as victims of sexual and physical abuse, a report on one of the biggest Catholic abuse scandals in the German history showed on Tuesday.
There was for decades a “system of fear” with beatings and sexual abuse, Xinhua news agency cited the report, released after a two-year inquiry that spanned cases between 1945 and the early 1990s, as showing.
Seven years after the first cases became public, the report put the number of incidents of physical abuse at 500 and incidents of sexual abuse at 67.