Bishop Janssen - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 08 Nov 2015 20:21:31 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Bishop Janssen - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 ‘Plausible' abuse claim against bishop https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/11/10/plausible-abuse-claim-against-bishop/ Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:05:40 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=78788 A German diocese has admitted a man has made a "plausible" claim that he was sexually abused by a former bishop. A man came forward year with the claim against the late Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen of Hildesheim diocese, who died in 1998. The man said he was abused in the late 1950s and early Read more

‘Plausible' abuse claim against bishop... Read more]]> A German diocese has admitted a man has made a "plausible" claim that he was sexually abused by a former bishop.

A man came forward year with the claim against the late Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen of Hildesheim diocese, who died in 1998.

The man said he was abused in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

A payment was made to the man by the diocese in "recognition of his suffering", at the recommendation of the German bishops' conference.

The man made further demands which the diocese rejected.

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