Another person affected has said, as shown in the third interim report by the Independent Commission on the processing of sexual abuse in the Diocese of Trier, which was presented on Wednesday.
It says that Dillinger sexually abused "at least 20 people" in various degrees of severity from 1961 to 2018.
Until now, the two special mediators appointed by the Commission had assumed that he had sexually abused at least 19 people during this period. Its preliminary final report was published in May.
New case from the 1960s in Bitburg
The now announced 20. The case of abuse occurred in Bitburg in the 1960s, writing the two former prosecutors Jürgen Brauer and Ingo Hromada.
According to an SWR report (Wednesday) and an earlier report of the "Trierische Volksfreund ", the man in affected man had been imperiously touched by Dillinger in the 1960s as a student in Bitburg.
The priest was chaplain in the Bitburg parish of Sankt Peter from July 1965. Dillinger had picked up their trousers several times during religious education during their religious instruction.
"Well, did he board you?" was the person affected then asked by classmates, he reported to the two special investigators.
Dillinger died in November 2022 at the age of 87. He was a priest in parishes in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. The special mediators do not only weigh him in 20 cases of sexual abuse.
"Furthermore, many, according to their number, were affected by Dillinger's sexually motivated behavior by photographing in sexually understated poses, enduring touches in all regions of the body or fending off attempts to approach."
After his death, thousands of photos were found in Dillinger's possession, including criminally relevant youth pornography.
Staying in the ecclesial ministry "barely to understand"
Against the background of the research, the coming to table is "required of understanding that a person like Dillinger, despite all knowledge of his attacks and acts of abuse, has been able to remain in the service of the Church for decades."
The report also says: "The insuit and looking away from ecclesiastical leaders regards the Independent Commission for the Reappraisal as a Conscious Cover-Up, which served first of the protection of the good name of the Church and the Diocese and which grossly neglected the interests of the victims."
The third interim report now explains the results of the investigation until October 2024, as the chairman of the chairman of the chairman of the chairman and constitutional law, Gerhard Robbers, explained, who was Rhineland-Palatinate Minister from 2014 to 2016.
The final report is to be published at the end of April 2025.