[Photo above: The Diocese of Trier, in the region bordering Luxembourg, was historically one of the most important sees in the Holy Roman Empire. Wikimedia Commons]
The late Fr Edmund Dillinger was “power-obsessed, self-centered, narcissistic and egotistical”, according to investigators.
An independent sexual abuse inquiry in the Diocese of Trier concluded that successive bishops covered up the actions of a notorious abuser priest for decades.
Local prosecutors in the region, next to the Luxembourg border, also did little to punish the late Fr Edmund Dillinger, who the inquiry said had abused 19 people from 1961 until 2018.
In addition, he possessed “very many people” photographed in sexual scenes or “exposed to touchings in all areas of the body”, the report by two retired senior prosecutors said.
The diocese reported Dillinger to the police in 2012 and barred him from celebrating Mass in public and contacting youths.
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