A Crux report, published 29 August 2022, on the first interim report of the independent Reappraisal Commission for the Diocese of Trier, chaired by former Rhineland-Palatinate Justice Minister Gerhard Robbers and launched June 2021. The article records the commission's own figures: 513 victims (162 female, 311 male, 40 unrecorded) and 195 accused or convicted perpetrators across the 1946 to 2021 period examined, and the pattern of transferring accused priests to new assignments where some reoffended.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: a Catholic-focused news outlet's own contemporaneous report on the commission's figures, corroborated by BishopAccountability.org's independent contemporaneous republication of Christian Network Europe's reporting a week later. NotesTier 2: the source for the 513-victim, 195-accused tally, the commission's chair and launch date, and the 1946 to 2021 scope, cross checked against BishopAccountability.org's independent contemporaneous coverage of the same report.
Citation
PublisherCrux
Publication Year2022
URLhttps://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2022/08/interim-report-priests-transferred-by-german-diocese-continued-to-abuse
Source Typenews
Claims Backed By This Source (18 claims)
This source backs 18 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
Well-attested
15Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
Connected
2Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
General References
1Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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