Scared me for a moment that it was a boys choir in Frankfurt. Please don't get me wrong I think it is horrible no matter where but I have my reasons as to why I would worry about where it happened.

Beatings or being slapped.

It's an independent lawyer's investigation. Don't know anything about his background except he's on a one-person crusade, and if it goes to court he'll make out handsomely.

As such, it makes it the first PR salvo in what's going to be a long legal case.


Imagine this was a lawyer who was putting together a case against some agency--maybe the EPA--alleging that it mishandled regulations and laws when it came to corporations and large landholders and issuing an "independent report" prior to filing legal papers with the court. How we evaluate and what importance we give to two reports of the same value depends crucially on what we think of the victims and the abuser.

Such reports are usually inflated. Weber would also have found that St. Luke's, the Catholic school some of my high-school friends went to, had a dozen religious figures engaged in abuse. They routinely swatted their kids' hands with rulers and from time to time would spank the kids. This was in the '60s and early '70s. The parents would have done the same and seldom objected. His definition of abuse is tres children's-rights-activist 2017. It's a problem when the abuse stretches back to when other definitions were operative.