BERLIN — A German diocese said Friday it has given prosecutors the case of a priest accused of sexually abusing four boys several years ago, and he was suspended from his current post at a home for retirees.
The alleged abuse took place between 1980 and 1996, according to the diocese of Erfurt in eastern Germany.
One of the men who claims to have been abused by the priest asked the diocese at Easter to go to prosecutors, diocese spokesman Peter Weidemann said. When questioned by church officials this week, the priest admitted to three other cases, Weidemann said.
The diocese then filed a criminal complaint with prosecutors in Muehlhausen, the spokesman said.
The first of the alleged victims initially came forward in 1997 with his parents, but they said they didn't want to go to prosecutors or go public, so the priest was kept "under observation" after that, Weidemann said.
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