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	Famed Choir Caught up in Abuse Scandal Sydney Morning Herald March 7, 2010 http://www.smh.com.au/world/famed-choir-caught-up-in-abuse-scandal-20100306-ppny.html GERMANY -- A SEXUAL abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church in Germany has widened to include a 1000-year-old boys' choir led for three decades by Pope Benedict brother. The famed Domspatzen (Cathedral Sparrows) choir in the southern city of Regensburg, founded in 975, acknowledged in a "letter to parents" published on its website that a child had been abused in the 1950s. "To our knowledge the boarding school principal at the time was tried and convicted. He has since died," the choir's letter said. It also said a former choir member recently told a newspaper he had been sexually molested during his time with the choir in the 1960s. The Pope's brother, 86-year-old Georg Ratzinger, led the Domspatzen between 1964 and 1993. He has not been accused of abuse. Two former members of staff at the Domspatzen, which includes a boarding school and a music college, were previously jailed for abuse. Both died in 1984. In January, an elite Jesuit school in Berlin admitted the systematic sexual abuse of its pupils by two Roman Catholic priests in the 1970s and 1980s.
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