Number of priest sex abuse claims rises

THE number of students who claim they were sexually abused by Jesuit priests at schools across Germany has risen to 115, a lawyer said yesterday.

Ursula Raue, an attorney appointed by the order to handle the charges, said that since seven alumni of the private Catholic Canisius Kolleg in Berlin first reported abuses in January, the accusations have "taken on a dimension of previously unbelievable proportions".