13-year-old girl from Burgenland sexually abused by Nigerian vicar?
A 48-year-old vicar from Nigeria is confronted with serious accusations.
The African clergyman was hearing the confession of pupils from the secondary modern school in Kohfidisch, a little village of 1.500 inhabitants, in the south of Burgenland.
Now a 13-year-girl claims that she was sexually abused by the vicar during the confession. The incident happened on the 14th March.
The girl told her class teacher. The directress called the youth welfare office, which informed the police.
The reaction of the church was clear and unequivocally. The vicar was directly deposed from his position. The presumption of innocence has to be valid.
The episcopal ordinariate is very shocked and concerned about the case. It wouldn’t be the first time that the Austrian church has problems with sex offenders among their own officials.