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	Report Says German Bishop Suspected of Sex Abuse Earth Times May 7, 2010 http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/322484,report-says-german-bishop-suspected-of-sex-abuse.html Augsburg, Germany - German police are investigating sex abuse allegations against a controversial Catholic bishop in Germany who handed in his resignation last month, a newspaper said Friday. Walter Mixa, one of Germany's 27 Catholic bishops, first headed the diocese of Eichstaett in northern Bavaria from 1996 to 2005, then the bigger diocese of Augsburg. He has gone on leave while the Vatican decides how to respond to the resignation offer. The newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine said the allegations involved the Eichstaett period and were being studied by prosecutors in the city of Ingolstadt. They had not yet decided if an unspecified complaint of sex abuse should lead to a full-scale police inquiry. The newspaper passed the report to other media in advance of publication. There had not been any previous sexual allegations against Mixa. At the urging of fellow bishops, he offered his resignation after denying for two weeks that he had hit misbehaving teenagers while he was a parish priest, then admitting that he "may" have slapped their faces. The newspaper quoted sources saying the Catholic Church had initiated the inquiry by passing the allegations to prosecutors.
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