In the future, too, the public will always be able to get an idea of how carelessly bishops and those responsible for human resources in the Catholic Church in Germany dealt with abusers.
According to the reports on the dioceses of Aachen, Berlin, Munich and Cologne, this year alone there is still information about Münster, Freiburg i.
Br. and Osnabrück to be expected.
Officials who are still alive need not fear the consequences.
As in the case of Archbishop Hesse of Hamburg, Pope Francis is likely to continue to face accomplices and accomplices - to the scorn of those affected.
In German criminal law, however, completely new strings could soon be raised.
If the Ministers of Justice followed up their words with deeds, caregivers and supervisors could be held accountable in any institution in the future.
Namely, if they have "grossly violated" their duties and thereby "promoted" an act of abuse.
You don't have to be a lawyer to imagine how difficult it would be to prove such causalities in a court of law.
But one could hope that the abstract threat of punishment alone would encourage reflection on one's own actions and omissions.
Prevention in schools, sports clubs, the music world and churches would be of much use in this way, much more than with many paper concepts (if they exist at all).