Catholic abuse cases rock Italy
The Catholic sex abuse scandal spread to Italy yesterday with the bishop of the northern diocese of Bolzano apologising to victims and promising to co-operate with prosecutors.
Numerous victims have come forward with tales of physical and sexual abuse in a convent in the 1960s.
Bishop Karl Golser launched an internet campaign to urge victims to come forward.
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Hide AdHe expressed his "sincere regret" to all victims and said he would forward all claims of abuse onto prosecutors.
Meanwhile, the pope's former diocese in Munich said it was facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis. Elke Huemmeler, head of the diocese's newly founded sexual abuse prevention task force, said: "It is like a tsunami".