No charges in Swiss Catholic abuse investigation

Prosecutors in the Swiss city of St Gallen have ended an investigation into five complaints of sexual abuse against the Catholic Church without filing any charges. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The complaints were received after the publication of the abuse report in September 2023. One of the five complaints was filed by the Diocese of Chur regarding an alleged assault from the 1970s and another from a private individual. + What next for Swiss Catholic Church after abuse allegation? A total of five priests were accused, and ten people were identified as potential victims. The investigations were "time-consuming and complex," prosecutor spokesperson Leo-Philippe Menzel told Swiss public broadcaster SRF. The length of time since the alleged assaults further complicated the investigations. The statute of limitations was cited as one of the key reasons that some other cases could not be investigated. In two cases, the indictment chamber of the canton of ...