More than two years after serious allegations of abuse became known in the former Catholic Piusheim near Munich, the public prosecutor’s office has stopped the investigation. The “Piusheim complex” was completed, said a spokeswoman for the Munich II public prosecutor at the request of the German Press Agency.

“After carrying out the investigation, in particular after hearing numerous witnesses and after evaluating the documents handed over by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, there was no initial suspicion of a specific person.” The investigations, which were directed against unknown persons, were therefore already at the end of August year has been discontinued.

The spokesman for the “Eckiger Tisch” initiative for those affected, Matthias Katsch, called for an investigative commission in the Bavarian state parliament “to secure the files, question witnesses and clarify the events in this and possibly other homes that are mentioned again and again in this context”. he told the dpa.

A trial at the Munich II Regional Court triggered the public prosecutor’s investigation in spring 2020.

A grandfather, who himself had been sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for years of massive and severe abuse of his grandchildren and their friends, testified in court that he had been severely abused as a youth in the Catholic Church’s reformatory. He spoke of sex parties and prostitution and that a classmate committed suicide in the home.

After the investigation became known, several former residents of the Piusheim reported to the public prosecutor’s office, the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and the “Eckigen Tisch”. At the time, Katsch spoke of a “hellish institution”. (dpa)