Comments to: “Germany Jesuit head apologises for child sex abuse”

The dilemma with the violence in the churches has just started showing the outskirt of what they try to hide for years.

On Jan. 2, the Round Table released the miserable halftime report.

The published 47 page final report was missing important facts. The Round Table avoided naming the guilty party and sidestepped the admission of human rights violations.

The Round Table admitted that “bad things happen” and that “sexual abuse” had taken place, but they would not admit to “forced labour” and “human rights violations”. Both churches had laundries, seamstress-sweatshops, rented children out to big companies such as Siemens, Krups, Erdal etc. And mind you, both churches in Germany became very wealthy in post war II, because they forced children into labor. Young people worked and the church collected the paycheck without paying anything into the social security of their child-laborer.

Today these abused people must live with PTSD and from a little welfare money, in a society that still blames them for being in an institution. I know, because I’m one of these victims.

If the German government would have admited to all this in the report, they would have to face their own guilt, neglect, and the oversight, demanded by German law. The reason for all this hiding is, in Germany state and church is not separate; ergo - they must protect their interest and care less about the victims.
For this reason, the Round Table is only interested in “damage contol” not exposing the in-depth horror of post WW II.

It feels like we will never see the daylight of justice before we die but fight must go on. Cloaking the reality of our history will not change the truth. We will continue to tell the truth.

by Sieglinde Alexander: