Priest jailed in Germany for years-long child sexual abuse

GERMANY
Expatica

A German court jailed a Roman Catholic priest for six years Thursday after convicting him of 250 counts of sexually abusing three boys over a seven-year period, an official said.

The 46-year-old priest, who was arrested in July, admitted during the trial to sexually abusing the boys, aged nine to 15, whose families the priest knew, a court spokesman said.

“Due to the high number of cases of sexual abuse, many of which were cases of aggravated abuse, he was handed a total sentence of six years,” the spokesman said.

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