11,400 calls and 2,100 letters from victims of abuse in a single year. On this basis, the independent commissioner Christine Bergmann proposes that all victims of child abuse for therapies receiving aid and compensation for damage, even in cases where the crime has already prescribed. Bergmann, Social Democrat and former Minister for Family Affairs, include these recommendations in its report on child abuse in Germany.
It argues that the institutions within which the crimes were committed and to compensate the victims. The amount would be set within a range of between 1,500 and 50,000 euros and be directed to fixing compensation for crimes not prescribed. A court of arbitration, in which experts should be involved "and affected people" dictate whether the complaint is substantiated or not.
The payment would be voluntary. In the case of abuse within the family, the State would be responsible for compensating the victim. The German government plans to make the civil consequences of these crimes is not required within 30 years. Today expire after 3 years. Bergmann calls, moreover, that does not begin to run from the offense, but from the day the victim turns 21.
For criminal charges, the Commissioner proposes that the limitation period also starts at age 21. Today begins at 18 years of the victim and ends, depending on the severity, between 5 and 30 years later. This is to allow time for victims to report abuse. The Commission began work last year as a result of the string of scandals uncovered in January 2010 in Germany.
The first trickle of revelations splashed the Catholic Church when they met at school abuses Canisius Berlin, run by the Jesuits. Other victims are encouraged to report similar events. The scandal came to the choirboys of the cathedral of Regensburg. A few months later, in March 2010, came to light various abuses at boarding lay Odenwald.
The wave of revelations prompted the head of the German Catholic hierarchy, Robert Zollitsch, to admit "mistakes." Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg resigned in April over allegations of child abuse in a Catholic orphanage. In June, Pope Benedict XVI apologized to victims of abuse within the church.
German Jesuits offered 5,000 euros this year to some 200 victims. Overall, serious shortcomings were evident in the systems of prevention and care for victims of these crimes, whether in religious institutions and in the secular. The limitation of many of these crimes makes it impossible to punishment.
Bergmann proposals aim to victims to get at least financial compensation. Bergmann proposals now go to the deliberations of the Government Roundtable for cases of child abuse. Bergmann, who participates in the Table by the Ministers of Justice, Education and Family in the current center-right government headed by Angela Merkel, warned yesterday that its report "does not ditch the theme of child abuse, "you must follow this" at the end the work of the Commission on 31 October. 
It argues that the institutions within which the crimes were committed and to compensate the victims. The amount would be set within a range of between 1,500 and 50,000 euros and be directed to fixing compensation for crimes not prescribed. A court of arbitration, in which experts should be involved "and affected people" dictate whether the complaint is substantiated or not.
The payment would be voluntary. In the case of abuse within the family, the State would be responsible for compensating the victim. The German government plans to make the civil consequences of these crimes is not required within 30 years. Today expire after 3 years. Bergmann calls, moreover, that does not begin to run from the offense, but from the day the victim turns 21.
For criminal charges, the Commissioner proposes that the limitation period also starts at age 21. Today begins at 18 years of the victim and ends, depending on the severity, between 5 and 30 years later. This is to allow time for victims to report abuse. The Commission began work last year as a result of the string of scandals uncovered in January 2010 in Germany.
The first trickle of revelations splashed the Catholic Church when they met at school abuses Canisius Berlin, run by the Jesuits. Other victims are encouraged to report similar events. The scandal came to the choirboys of the cathedral of Regensburg. A few months later, in March 2010, came to light various abuses at boarding lay Odenwald.
The wave of revelations prompted the head of the German Catholic hierarchy, Robert Zollitsch, to admit "mistakes." Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg resigned in April over allegations of child abuse in a Catholic orphanage. In June, Pope Benedict XVI apologized to victims of abuse within the church.
German Jesuits offered 5,000 euros this year to some 200 victims. Overall, serious shortcomings were evident in the systems of prevention and care for victims of these crimes, whether in religious institutions and in the secular. The limitation of many of these crimes makes it impossible to punishment.
Bergmann proposals aim to victims to get at least financial compensation. Bergmann proposals now go to the deliberations of the Government Roundtable for cases of child abuse. Bergmann, who participates in the Table by the Ministers of Justice, Education and Family in the current center-right government headed by Angela Merkel, warned yesterday that its report "does not ditch the theme of child abuse, "you must follow this" at the end the work of the Commission on 31 October.
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