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* Monastery school raided after former students claim abuse
* Allegations date back to 1950s, 1970s and 1980s
* Germany's Catholic Church hit by increasing number of sex abuse
claims


Berlin, Germany (CNN) -- Authorities have raided a monastery in southern
Germany as part of a probe into allegations that priests sexually abused
children there, prosecutors said.


Eight former students at the Ettal Abbey boarding school have reported
that they were abused in 1954 and in the 1970s and '80s, the abbey has
said in a statement. The head of the monastery and the school headmaster
stepped down last week.


Investigators with the Munich State Prosecutors Office visited the
Benedictine Abbey of Ettal on Tuesday afternoon as part of their ongoing
investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of underage children by
priests there.


Authorities are now assessing evidence collected at the abbey, the
prosecutors said.


No arrests have been made in the investigation involving Ettal.


The investigation unfolds amid a growing scandal involving allegations
of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Germany.


Nearly every day since the end of January, people have come forward to
report cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Germany. News
reports put the number of cases at about 150.


Germany's highest-ranking Catholic, Freiburg Archbishop Robert
Zoellitsch, has addressed the problem.


"I apologize in the name of the church in Germany to all those who
became the victims of such crimes," he said recently.


"Sexual abuse weighs extremely heavily in the context of the church
because children and youth put so much trust in priests," he said.
"There must be no sexual abuse -- especially in the church."


He also said he would raise the subject with Pope Benedict XVI when he
visits him in March.




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