The former choirmaster of a Catholic school in Germany where more than 500 children were abused, including sexually, was a "fanatic" who was "feared" by pupils, his immediate successor said on Wednesday. Georg Ratzinger, older brother of former Pope Benedict XVI, led the famous millennium-old choir in the southern city of Regensburg between 1964 and 1994. SEE ALSO: 547 boys were abused at Regensburg Catholic choir school, says lawyerFrom 1945 until the early 1990s, choirboys were subjected to abuse ranging from deprivation of food to physical blows and sexual assault including rape. As well as Ratzinger, former Regensburg bishop Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller is implicated indirectly in the report. Müller is accused of botching an internal investigation into the abuse in 2010 and failing to engage with the victims.

Source: The Local July 20, 2017 07:06 UTC