BERLIN — Deepening the sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, a special investigator released a report yesterday saying that 205 former students said they had been abused in Jesuit schools, including at the prestigious Canisius-Kolleg in Berlin.
The investigator, Ursula Raue, said the actual number could be higher.
The Rev. Stefan Dartmann, who is Germany’s leading Jesuit official, immediately issued a statement acknowledging “with shame and guilt, our failure.’’
Raue’s report said 46 Jesuits and nonclerical staff members at the schools had been accused of abuse or of knowing of such crimes without acting.
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