Regensburg, Germany, Jan 12, 2016 / 00:09 am
The elder brother of retired Pope Benedict XVI said that he was unaware of any sexual abuse occurring at a choir boarding school he previously directed.
"These things were never discussed," Fr. Georg Ratzinger told German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse. "The problem of sexual abuse that has now come to light was never spoken of."
He also said that he was not aware of how serious physical abuse by one of the schoolmasters may have been, apologizing to victims.
His comments came after a lawyer charged by the Diocese of Regensburg with investigating alleged physical and sexual abuse at its cathedral's children's choir said his inquiry had found that more than 200 children may have been abused from the 1950s to the 1990s.