A woman who reached a settlement with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria this month says she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Father Gerhard Hartmann at St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, beginning in 1976, when she was 10
A Vancouver Island woman who says she was sexually assaulted as a child by a Catholic priest with a Nazi past is sharing her story because she believes there are other victims.Her lawsuit alleges she was repeatedly sexually assaulted and molested by Father Gerhard Hartmann in the confessional at St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Nanaimo, beginning in 1976, when she was 10, and continuing until 1979, when Hartmann was suddenly moved from the parish.
The woman, who came from a large Catholic family, said she was sexually assaulted every week in the confessional. Hartmann should have been at St. Peter’s for five years, but he was barely there for two, said Talach. S.P. didn’t tell her parents about the abuse because of his connection with De Roo. At that time, the bishop, who died this year, was “hero-worshipped” on Vancouver Island, she said.“My parents had Bishop Remi De Roo to dinner in our house. He was considered a hero. But he fast-tracked a very troubled, complicated man who, by any due diligence, should have been screened as not appropriate.
But S.P. says the internal reporting system is not enough. “I will only begin to feel that the church is finally prepared to handle this when the red button links you directly with the police.”
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