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Norway

Georg Müller, a former Catholic Bishop in Trondheim, Norway, has admitted to sexually abusing an altar boy in the 1980s when he served as a priest there. Müller, who retired as bishop in 2009, said there were no other victims.[49][50]

[edit]Poland

Archdiocese of Poznań

In March 2002 the Archbishop of PoznańJuliusz Paetz, stepped down following accusations, which he denied, of sexually molesting young priests.[51]

Diocese of Płock

In early 2007 allegations surfaced that former Bishop Stanislaw Wielgus (later very briefly Archbishop of Warsaw) was aware that several priests in his former diocese of Płock were sexually abusing minors.[52]

[edit]Slovenia

Archdiocese of Ljubljana

[edit]Sweden

Diocese of Stockholm

One child was sexually abused by a priest several years in the late 1950s. When the child raised the issue at the time, the priest was protected and the abuse was kept quiet by the church. The victim finally reported the abuse to the Stockholm diocese in December 2005. The victim demanded a public apology from the church. In June 2007 Sweden's Catholic church made a public apology in two newspapers.[55]

[edit]Great Britain

There have been a considerable number of sex abuse cases in the United Kingdom including:

Benedictine Order

In 2007 two former monks from Buckfast Abbey were sentenced for sexually abusing boys.[56][57]

In 2009 a monk of Ealing Abbey and former headmaster of the junior department of its associated school, St Benedict's, was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing boys.[58]

In 2004 former priest John Kinsey of Belmont Abbey, Herefordshire, was sentenced at Worcester Crown Court for 5 years for sexual assaults on schoolboys in the mid 1980s.[59][60]

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