The German archdiocese led by the future Pope Benedict XVI ignored repeated warnings in the early 1980s by a psychiatrist treating a priest accused of sexually abusing boys that he should not be allowed to work with children, The New York Times reports.
"I said, 'For God's sake, he desperately has to be kept away from working with children,' " the psychiatrist, Dr. Werner Huth, told The Times on Thursday. "I was very unhappy about the entire story."
From the front page story by Nicholas Kulish and Katrin Bennhold:
Huth tells The Times that he did not communicate directly with Ratzinger, and does not know whether the future pope knew of his warnings. Benedict's deputy at the time has taken the blame for allowing Hullermann to return to work.