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Other Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · 2025

Germany: Trier diocese's own review finds 711 victims and 234 accused, far above the national MHG study

Record class

Institutional event

Evidence status

Official finding

Authority role

Catholic priests, deacons and religious of the Diocese of Trier

Organization

Diocese of Trier, Aufarbeitungskommission Bistum Trier

Spiritual nexus

The victims were children and dependents inside the diocese's own parish and institutional structures, under the pastoral authority of priests, deacons and religious the diocese itself employed and supervised.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2024-07-24 · official-finding

    Aufarbeitungskommission (independent review commission), Diocese of Trier, Germany. The Diocese of Trier's own independent review commission, chaired by Margarete Spital, published interim findings documenting 711 victims and 234 accused perpetrators within the diocese — 369 more victims and 86 more accused than had been identified for Trier in the 2018 national MHG study. The report documents the scale of abuse within the diocese's own personnel and archival records.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • priestly and pastoral office creating access to and unchallengeable authority over parish children and dependents

Primary record

Sources

official inquiry report commissioned review Aufarbeitungskommission Bistum Trier: Zwischenbericht, 24 July 2024.

Interim report documenting 711 Betroffene (victims) and 234 Beschuldigte (accused) within the Diocese of Trier, exceeding the MHG study's diocese-level figures.

institutional primary review summary Bistum Trier: Aufarbeitung sexualisierter Gewalt (diocesan review page).

Diocese's own page describing the ongoing independent review process.

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