Official finding Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · 2024

Germany: Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese's own count reaches 454 victims and 241 accused since 1946

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Catholic clergy and church employees of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

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Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

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Victims were parishioners and dependents under the pastoral authority of clergy the diocese itself supervised and, in several cases, continues to place in ministry.

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2024-09-30 · official-finding

Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart's own case tracking, Germany. The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart's own updated figures, current to 30 September 2024, documented 241 accused persons and 454 victims of sexualised violence by church employees since 1946. The diocese separately disclosed that twelve priests convicted of sexual offences currently live within the diocese, eight of them under restrictions, retired or suspended from all pastoral work, and four still serving in non-leading pastoral roles.

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clerical office within diocesan parishes

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religious press institutional disclosure report katholisch.de: Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart aktualisiert Missbrauchszahlen.: Report of the diocese's updated abuse figures and the twelve currently-living convicted priests.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.katholisch.de/artikel/57134-dioezese-rottenburg-stuttgart-aktualisiert-missbrauchszahlen Corpus classification: religious-press; evidentiary role: institutional-disclosure-report. SHA-256 06b3030b2581dc5446bca09d1cbe2ffad55259e618291f16d1ef1f46aef9f2b2
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