Austrian bishops label cardinal a paedophile
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The Catholic church in Austria has released a statement which says the paedophile accusations levelled at the Archbishop of Vienna, Hans Hermann Groer, are "in essence true."
The statement was issued by the country's top four bishops.
Hans Hermann Gröer was Cardinal and Archbishop of Vienna until in 1995. He was forced to resign after accusations that he molested a pupil in a shower at a Catholic boys school 22 years ago.
Except for a written statement to a newspaper that year when he rejected the charges as "defamation", he made no further comment and the Vatican made no move at the time to investigate.
New charges against him were made in December by a monk who said the former archbishop had molested him as a child.
Read the article at BBC News dated February 28, 1998
The Catholic church in Austria has released a statement which says the paedophile accusations levelled at the Archbishop of Vienna, Hans Hermann Groer, are "in essence true."
The statement was issued by the country's top four bishops.
Hans Hermann Gröer was Cardinal and Archbishop of Vienna until in 1995. He was forced to resign after accusations that he molested a pupil in a shower at a Catholic boys school 22 years ago.
Except for a written statement to a newspaper that year when he rejected the charges as "defamation", he made no further comment and the Vatican made no move at the time to investigate.
New charges against him were made in December by a monk who said the former archbishop had molested him as a child.
Read the article at BBC News dated February 28, 1998
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