The abuse expert Heiner Keupp sees “indications of massive acts of violence and abuse” in the past of a Bavarian SOS Children's Village.
"Those affected from this time show dramatic changes in life history," he writes in his report on the processing of two more recent cases of attacks on children in the Bavarian institution, which the SOS Children's Village Association published on Friday.
Keupp called for a comprehensive review and unrestricted access to the archives of the SOS Children's Villages.
"Those affected have a right to have their experiences recognized and the carrier has to take responsibility for it."
52 reported "border crossings"
According to the Children's Village Association, since the introduction of an internal contact and monitoring point for border crossings that are dangerous to children in 2010, a total of 52 former carers have reported.
To date, recognition payments have also been made in 21 cases “in the event of abuse”.
Keupp investigated suspected cases in an Upper Bavarian home on behalf of the SOS Kinderdorf association between 2000 and 2015.
Two former village mothers were accused of serious assaults against the children they were supposed to look after during this period.
The allegations range from being locked in the basement and being beaten to sexual assault.
A village mother is said to have forced the children to take a shower with her in a narrow shower cubicle and then to apply lotion to them.
In addition, the children are said to have been made to walk past their bed naked in the morning so that they could check, especially in the pubic area, whether they had "washed themselves properly".
The public prosecutor's office in Augsburg has now started investigations following a criminal complaint.