A bishop-accountability.org report on the Gercke report's findings: 314 children, mostly boys under 14, abused by 202 identified perpetrators between 1975 and 2018, and 75 breaches of duty by eight living and deceased officials, Cardinal Joseph Hoffner responsible for 8 and Cardinal Joachim Meisner for 24, about a third of the total. The article records that the report formally cleared the sitting Cardinal, Rainer Woelki, of legal wrongdoing while incriminating other officials, including the then Archbishop of Hamburg, Stefan Hesse, who had previously served in Cologne.
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Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: a specialist clergy-abuse documentation project's own report on the findings, the same tier already given its coverage of the Klasnic Commission elsewhere on this axis (entity 56811), corroborated by the National Catholic Reporter's independent coverage. NotesTier 2: the source for the 314-victim, 202-accused tally and the 75 breaches of duty by name, cross checked against the National Catholic Reporter's independent contemporaneous coverage.
Citation
PublisherBishopAccountability.org
Publication Year2021
URLhttps://www.bishop-accountability.org/2021/03/cologne-catholic-church-failed-in-handling-sex-abuse-claims-report-finds/
Source Typenews
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
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12Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
General References
1Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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