Progress has been made in the field of preventing sexualized violence, but there is still a considerable need for action in view of the suffering that has been inflicted on thousands, if not tens of thousands, over the past decades: This is how a balance sheet of how the issue of child sexual abuse was dealt with in the two churches sound.
But these institutions are exceptionally not at issue.
In the area of organized sports, the issue of coming to terms with the past is no better than in the churches: This is how the Independent Commission on Investigation (UAK) put it in black and white on the basis of numerous written and oral reports.
And as in the area of the churches, it has long been clear what needs to be done in the interest of those affected in both top-class and popular sport: independent contact points are needed, a low-threshold help system and the right of those affected to comprehensive, independent processing of what has been done to them became.
The churches still don't want to know much about all this because they can feel safe from government attempts to intervene by referring to their right to self-determination.
The situation is different in sports.
There, politics has a powerful lever in the form of lavish financial donations.
She should finally use it.