This was announced by the Commission to deal with sexualised violence in Erfurt on Tuesday in an interim assessment.
According to this, 78 affected persons have now registered, a total of 338,500 euros in recognition have been paid. In most cases, for which all relevant files have been searched since 1945, the perpetrators have already died.
Commission Chairman Ulrike Brune said: "The largest part – we assume 25 cases here – we have sexual assaults, and in seven cases affected people reported that they were raped."
Cases of so-called border violations were moved in the low single digit range.
Brune summarised: "Unfortunately, we have to assume that the files before us reflect only a fraction of the actual events."
The diocese had made all the desired information and files available to the Commission, but it had been kept in a very unsystematic way.
Dispute over publication of the annual report
Brune clearly criticized that Bishop Ulrich Neymeyr had not agreed to publish the annual report for 2023. In other dioceses, the majority is different.
Neymeyr replied that, for reasons of data protection and privacy protection, he could not agree to publish an unabridged version with regard to perpetrators. The Vice-President Michael Winkler vehemently contradicted this. These rights are not violated in the report, everything is anonymous at most.
According to Brune, the Commission was prepared to publish a shortened report if the bishop had registered that he had made the cuts. He was not ready for this. With regard to the independence of the Kommssion, she also criticised that it does not yet have a homepage and office independent of the diocese.
Brune praised that Bishop Neymeyr offers all those affected discussions, visits them at home at home and hold intensive conversations with them.
Commission founded in 2021
The cooperation committee was constituted in the Diocese of Erfurt in October 2021. It has seven members, two of whom are sufferers.
The Commission's task is to independently investigate how many cases of sexual abuse of minors by church staff there have been in the diocese, how those responsible have dealt with those affected and the accused, and whether there are structures that enable sexualised violence or make it difficult to discover.
Once a year, the Commission presents a report to the Bishop of Erfurt, which the state and federal commissioners for child protection also receive. After five years, i.e. by the end of 2026, the Commission is to prepare a final report.
With the Commission, the Diocese of Erfurt is accepting an agreement made by the German bishops in June 2020 with the Federal Commissioner for Sexual Child Abuse.