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compensation payments to abuse victims

Sexual Abuse: The Catholic Church wants to be freed from their responsibility - because the federal government might even have an interest.

It was "shabby, as the richest church in the world tries to pull himself from the affair," said the spokesman of the "Square Tisches“, der die Opfer sexueller Gewalt vertritt, den Beschluss der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz. Diese möchte nun Missbrauchsopfer aus ihrem Umfeld mit einem Betrag „von bis zu 5.000 Euro“ entschädigen. Anlässlich des ersten Zusammentretens des Runden Tisches „Sexueller Kindesmissbrauch“ sah sich die katholische Kirche offenbar veranlasst vorzupreschen, um einem nachdrücklicheren Regress zuvorzukommen. Neben einer direkten Entschädigung, die den Betroffenen unmittelbar und „unbürokratisch“ zugute kommen soll, wie der Trierer Bischof Stephan Ackermann als kanonischer Missbrauchsbeauftragter versichert, erklärt sich die Kirche außerdem bereit, eine Therapie bis zu 50 Stunden (oder to fund a pair of therapy up to 25 hours) worth further 5,000 €. Want to continue the dioceses set up a prevention fund of € 500,000.

In Catholic diction adds to this offer in the old Christian idea of indulgences: you buy are free of debt by acquiring a precisely measured discharge letter. know, began with the criticism of the trade debt of the Reformation. In the modern version of the Catholic Church frustrated with it "only" all proposed collective models. After that had institutions in their environment, it added between 1949 and 2000 cases of sexual abuse has (that is, the result the statute of limitations can not be prosecuted), either in a common pot from which the victims are compensated total, paid, or they would have at least tipped a collective relief fund to pay for the therapy and counseling would be. For the church it would have been much less predictable, because Christine Bergmann, the Flag Officer of the Federal Government, would have probably urged on to fill the respective fund generously.

silverware flog

The fact that the Catholic bishops with their bid still fall short of the Jesuit Order, which will at least pay a flat rate 5,000 euros, is the one, the anderen müssen sich die Opfer angesichts ihrer oft lebenslangen Traumata verhöhnt vorkommen, wenn gleichzeitig vergleichsweise harmlose Verletzungen vor Gericht mit mehreren tausend Euro abgegolten werden. Eben das versuchen die Opferschutzverbände, vom „Eckigen Tisch“ bis zum Weißen Ring, mit ihrer Kritik zum Ausdruck zu bringen.

Es ließe sich aber noch eine weitere Rechnung aufmachen: Nicht nur werden die katholischen Bistümer jährlich mit knapp fünf Milliarden Euro von der Gesellschaft über Kirchensteuern subventioniert. Die konfessionellen Schulen, in deren Zugriffsbereich sich der Missbrauch meist ereignete, werden zusätzlich noch einmal staatlich gefördert – unter der Voraussetzung, that there educated and taught children to be treated with care. So why should not we demand in the face of such numbers that the church sold off some silverware to compensate for the suffering of these people?

may get the federal government, the dumping deals but not all that inconvenient: The Round Table, who yesterday met, led by Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP), namely responsible not only for the victims in public places, but also for sexually violent events in the family. Had on the hotline the abuse officers initially reported mainly concerned who are abused in public institutions had been, there are more and more people who suffered this fate in the family. For the load balancing well the federal government would be responsible. And has no interest in high compensation payments.