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When Ben König * reads the verdict of the Darmstadt Social Court in the middle of the year, he himself cannot believe it: his relief action under the Victims Protection Act has finally been granted. Even more: his history of abuse has been verified, evaluated and found credible in various details.
It is the story of the systematic, brutal and inhuman destruction of a child. A story that shows very clearly what the women and men of the Catholic Church were and probably still are capable of doing. And how can they get away with it.
Very calmly, with a firm voice, König recapitulates over the phone his suffering in a Catholic children’s home in Speyer. His anger can be felt over and over again for being left alone. From the state, from the authorities, from all those who looked the other way. His case has been on everyone’s lips since the details of the crimes were made public through the verdict.
On March 21, 1963, at the age of five and a half, Ben König arrived at the Engelsgasse facility run by the Niederbronn sisters. According to the ruling in a report by Sister Gottraud dated November 21, 1967, he is “mild-tempered”, friendly, but also quickly discouraged and angered.
