The Kentler experiment: foster placements with known pedophiles in West Berlin
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Berlin-commissioned research documented a decades-long public-welfare failure in which vulnerable boys were placed with known pedophiles. Its relationship to spiritual-abuse history is contextual and concerns ideology, authority, and institutional legitimization rather than religion.
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- The New Yorker, “The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles” (July 26, 2021).
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