A German man who says a priest sexually abused him as an altar boy has sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI seeking financial compensation from the church.Wilfried Fesselmann told The Associated Press he is also demanding an apology from the head of the Roman Catholic Church and asking for a personal audience at the Vatican.
Fesselmann said he sent the letter on Tuesday.
He is claiming unspecified compensation. He wrote: "How much is the life and the soul of a victim worth?"
The 41-year-old says he was abused when the priest was in the Essen diocese in western Germany.
Then-Munich Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger in 1980 approved the priest's transfer to Munich, where the man underwent therapy but later was allowed to return to pastoral duties.
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