Germany's under-fire Catholic Church admitted Thursday it must urgently confront its child sex abuse scandal, but victims accused it of continued"stonewalling", especially on compensation.
To the thousands of German victims and to other critics, Marx said,"we see and hear you ... we have understood", speaking at the end of a four-day episcopal conference in the western city of Lingen. Matthias Katsch of the main victims group Eckiger Tisch welcomed the general sentiment of more openness but stressed that"what we're missing is clear words on the issue of helping, in particular on the compensation of victims".
Katsch said the victims group's main goal remained an independent, state-mandated"truth commission" that openly investigates all abuses, combs through archives, hears witnesses and names the perpetrators. The true figure of German Catholic abuse victims was estimated at 114,000 in a recent Ulm University study based on a randomised survey of the general population that was published in the Journal of Sexual Child Abuse.
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