A Roman Catholic diocese in Germany
says a man has made a "plausible" claim that he was sexually abused in
the late 1950s and early 1960s by its then-bishop, who died in 1988.
The Hildesheim diocese in northern Germany said Friday that the man came
forward earlier this year with the claim against the late Bishop
Heinrich Maria Janssen. It said the current bishop's advisors on
questions of sexual abuse considered the claim plausible, and that it
made a payment to the man in "recognition of his suffering" at the
recommendation of the German Bishops' Conference.
