Former Pope Admits To Lying In Sex Abuse Investigation

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Former Pope Benedict XVI has admitted to giving a false statement in a child sex abuse investigation. He initially denied that he was present at a 1980 meeting in Munich, during his tenure as archbishop. German police acquired documents proving that he was indeed at said meeting, at which point, he admitted he had attended, calling the inaccuracy of his previous statement “an oversight.” The admission came four days after a report was released on abuse in the archdiocese from 1945 to 2019, which said that the former Cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict’s original name), failed to take action against clerics in four cases of alleged abuse while he was the archbishop, between 1977 and 1982. One case involved an approval from Ratzinger in 1980 for a priest to be transferred to Munich for therapy. The priest was then allowed to return to pastoral work. The same priest was found guilty of molesting another child six years later. Martin Pusch, a lawyer at Westpfahl Spilker Wastl, said during the press conference, “During [Ratzinger’s] time in office, there were abuse cases happening. In those cases, those priests continued their work without sanctions. The church did not do anything.”

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Former Pope Admits to Giving False Statements in Sex Abuse Investigation

Location: Vatican