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Pope's Brother Denies Sex Scandal While He Ran Boys Choir - Rev. Georg
Ratzinger Defends Tenure as Choir Master, Willing to Testify By ANN
WISE  ROME March 8, 2010 In an interview with an Italian newspaper on
Sunday, the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, 86, the Pope's older brother, said
he knew nothing of abuse, and noted that he was not the head of the
choir when the alleged abuse took place....Last month Archbishop
Zollitsch apologized for sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests
after over 100 cases were reported in schools across the country,
according to press reports.
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Pope's brother says slapped pupils at choir school Christopher Lawton
Mar 9, 2010 BERLIN (Reuters) The brother of Pope Benedict said in an
interview on Tuesday he slapped pupils in the face at a German school
where he led the choir, but had been unaware of the brutality of
discipline there....The Regensburg diocese is home to one of three
Catholic schools in the southern state of Bavaria where the charges of
sexual and physical abuse have surfaced recently. The diocese has said
one priest abused two boys sexually in 1958 and was sentenced to two
years in jail. Another clergyman served 11 months in jail in 1971 for
abuse. Other former pupils have said they suffered sexual abuse and
excessive beatings and humiliation in the early 1960s by unnamed
teachers. German Pope Benedict, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,
taught theology at Regensburg University from 1969 to 1977....More
than 200 Catholics in the Netherlands have come forward to report
alleged sexual abuses by priests, often decades ago. The Dutch Roman
Catholic Church said on Tuesday it was asking an independent
commission to look into the reports. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6282UR20100309

Pope's brother linked to new claims of child abuse by clergy - Fresh
allegations emerge over Bavarian school where Georg Ratzinger led
choir for 30 years By Jerome Taylor, Religious Affairs Correspondent
3/9/10  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/popes-brother-linked-t...

How paedophile priest was allowed to evade justice - Former priest
Bill Carney was named as one of the worst cases in Dublin's Catholic
diocese in the Murphy report into clerical abuse there. However, for
the last 10 years he has been free to live quietly in Britain. 3/9/10

Newsnight's Olenka Frenkiel has investigated his case and tracked him
down in the Canary Islands....The Murphy report into the cover up by
the Catholic Church and Irish state of clerical sex abuse was
published in November 2009. It described Carney as "a serial sexual
abuser of children, male and female", saying that there had been
complaints and suspicions "in respect of 32 named individuals" about
him, adding that "there is evidence he abused many more children"....

We now know that complaints about Carney were diverted away from the
Irish criminal justice system to Bishop James Kavanagh, a man
described by the Murphy Report as someone with "a soft spot for
Carney". Kavanagh did what he could to protect Carney from the law to
avoid scandal for the Church.

One conscientious policeman, praised in the Murphy Report, did
investigate complaints and they came to court. But the press were kept
away as Carney pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault and
got probation. Six families were paid compensation and Carney was soon
back working, with access to children....

In its 40 pages on Carney, the Murphy report said that his was one of
the worst cases the commission investigated and that the Church's
handling of his case was "nothing short of catastrophic".

"It was inept, self-serving and for the best part of 10 years
displayed no obvious concern for the welfare of children," the report
said.

In 1992, the Church convicted Carney internally, under Canon law, of
child sexual abuse. But this compulsive paedophile refused to leave
the parish house. So the Church paid him £30,000 to go away....

Newsnight has established that the Irish authorities knew his address
but no-one, either from the Church or the Irish state, thought to warn
his new wife about his past, or protect any children who might be at
risk.
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