https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Germany’s Justice Minister has a come out in favour of strengthening punishments for child sex abusers, after a number of high-profile cases in the country. https://www.thelocal.de/20200612/germany-to-fast-track-stricter-punishments-for-child-sexual-abuse Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:27:42 +0200 germany-to-fast-track-stricter-punishments-for-child-sexual-abuse Germany's under-fire Catholic Church admitted Thursday it must urgently confront its child sex abuse scandal, but victims accused it of continued "stonewalling", especially on compensation. https://www.thelocal.de/20190314/germanys-catholic-church-to-address-child-sex-abuse-scandal-as-protests-take-place Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:45:14 +0100 germanys-catholic-church-to-address-child-sex-abuse-scandal-as-protests-take-place One of the most senior German figures in the Catholic Church has controversially denied that sexual abuse was a problem in the Catholic Church, saying that the problem was caused by gay men rather than catholic priests. https://www.thelocal.de/20190104/homosexuality-at-fault-for-sex-abuse-not-catholic-church-says-german-cardinal Fri, 04 Jan 2019 13:08:11 +0100 homosexuality-at-fault-for-sex-abuse-not-catholic-church-says-german-cardinal A German former Catholic priest was on Thursday sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for more than 100 cases of child sexual abuse and other offences. https://www.thelocal.de/20180222/bavarian-court-jails-ex-priest-for-108-counts-of-child-sex-abuse Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:25:58 +0100 bavarian-court-jails-ex-priest-for-108-counts-of-child-sex-abuse Far-right extremist and former informant for the security services Tino Brandt will face charges of serious sexual abuse of children. https://www.thelocal.de/20141113/neo-nazi-to-face-child-sex-abuse-charges-tino-brandt-nsu-thuringia Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:34:00 +0100 neo-nazi-to-face-child-sex-abuse-charges-tino-brandt-nsu-thuringia The German Green party leadership has vowed to commission an independent investigation into allegations that it supported a group keen to legalize sex with children decades ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20130514/49687 Tue, 14 May 2013 09:34:00 +0200 49687 Britain's Royal Air Force said on Friday that it has questioned one of its former servicemen over claims that he sexually abused children at a British base in Berlin in the 1980s. https://www.thelocal.de/20130209/47865 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:39:00 +0100 47865 German authorities are trying to figure out whether a teenager who admitted stabbing a 55-year-old convicted sex offender to death may have been one of his victims. https://www.thelocal.de/20121103/45951 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:16:00 +0100 45951 Some sex abusers should continue to work for the Catholic church, a bishop said on Thursday, while a cardinal argued for some homosexual relationships to be treated like heterosexual ones. https://www.thelocal.de/20120518/42611 Fri, 18 May 2012 12:49:00 +0200 42611 Germany will not name and shame sex criminals by putting their details on the internet, Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has stated, knocking back a suggestion made by a police union leader. https://www.thelocal.de/20110720/36407 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:39:00 +0200 36407 The number of Catholics quitting the church jumped 40 percent last year to 180,000 in the wake of persistent child sex abuse scandals, a media report said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20110407/34247 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:11:00 +0200 34247 More than 140 Catholic theologians from Germany, Switzerland and Austria called Friday for an end to celibacy as part of sweeping reforms in the wake of a sex scandal that rocked the Church. https://www.thelocal.de/20110204/32883 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:04:00 +0100 32883 Victims of sexual abuse at Jesuit schools in Germany said Thursday that the Catholic Church’s offer of €5,000 in compensation is too low. https://www.thelocal.de/20110127/32695 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:58:00 +0100 32695 Victims of sex abuse at Jesuit schools are finally being offered concrete compensation payouts one year after the abuse scandal was revealed, a Catholic official said Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20110124/32615 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:15:00 +0100 32615 A pastor in Hamburg has been fired and is being investigated on suspicion of sexual assault for having drunken sex with a parishioner in his church, media reported Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20110107/32281 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:10:00 +0100 32281 Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger on Tuesday blasted a new TV show in which Stephanie zu Guttenberg, the wife of the Defence Minister, helps expose alleged child abusers via the internet. https://www.thelocal.de/20101019/30605 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:04:00 +0200 30605 The Catholic Church would be ready to compensate victims of abuse on a case-by-case basis rather than with a single lump sum, according to papers prepared ahead of discussions to be held next week. https://www.thelocal.de/20100925/30077 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:17:00 +0200 30077 Robert Zollitsch, Germany's most senior Roman Catholic bishop, said on Monday the Church had "failed" in its response to victims of sexual abuse by its priests. https://www.thelocal.de/20100920/29953 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:05:00 +0200 29953 The Jesuit order wants to offer victims of sexual abuse by their Catholic priests compensation of around €5,000, a spokesperson said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20100916/29857 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:00:00 +0200 29857 The world's first female Lutheran bishop resigned Friday after abuse accusations in her diocese of Hamburg, the latest casualty of a scandal to have rocked Christian churches in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20100716/28563 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:42:00 +0200 28563