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 Poznań, Juliusz 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
- Franc Frantar - detained in 2006[53] for sexual abuse of up to 16 minors. He was later sentenced to five years in prison.[54] He initially escaped prosecution by escaping to Malawi to work there as a missionary, but returned to Slovenia after Interpol warrant was issued.
[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
- Buckfast Abbey School
In 2007 two former monks from Buckfast Abbey were sentenced for sexually abusing boys.[56][57]
- Ealing Abbey / St Benedict's School
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]
- Belmont Abbey / Belmont Abbey School
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]