Colonia Dignidad founder sentenced for child torture (Ex-Nazi ally of Nixon puppet Pinochet)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Colonia Dignidad founder sentenced for child torture
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:07:00 GMT
Author : DPA

Santiago - Paul Schaefer, the founder of the notorious former German religious commune Colonia Dignidad in Chile, was sentenced to three years and a day in prison on Friday for torturing children. The sentencing is the latest in a series of cases that have condemned Schaefer to at least30 years in Jail in 25 cases of sexual abuse of minors and violations of legislation over the possession of firearms.

The victims in the current case were eight children who were given psychotropic medication and electroshock therapy from 1970 to 1980 in the settlement hospital, the court said in Santiago.

Moreover, the children were separated from their parents and prevented from developing a normal sexuality through the use of physical violence, the court added.

A former corporal in Adolf Hitler's army, Schaefer started the commune in southeastern Chile with other German emigrants. While preaching rigid morality, he sexually abused children and teenagers at the sealed-off complex, authorities have said.

Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/218465,colonia-dignidad-founder-sentenced-for-child-torture.html

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Last Updated: Friday, 11 March, 2005, 20:16 GMT

Secrets of ex-Nazi's Chilean fiefdom
By Becky Branford
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4340591.stm


Human Rights Information on Colonia Dignidad
http://www.chipsites.com/derechos/campo_colonia_dignidad_eng.html


Rise and fall of Colonia Dignidad (March 23, 2005)
To detention of Paul Schaefer

Wikipedia:

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Torture
Investigations by Amnesty International and the Chilean National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report have verified that Colonia Dignidad was used by DINA, the Chilean secret police, as a concentration camp for the detention of political prisoners during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorial rule of Chile. Most accounts have this happening between 1973 and 1977 but precise dates are not known.

The son of DINA head Manuel Contreras claims that his father and Pinochet visited Colonia Dignidad in 1974, and that his father and Schäfer were good friends. The current leader of Villa Baviera admits that torture took place within the old colony, but says that Villa Baviera is a new entity.

In March 2005, former DINA and CIA agent Michael Townley acknowledged to links between Colonia Dignidad and DINA, as well as relations with the Bacteriological War Army Laboratory. He would have spoken about biological experiments imposed to detainees, with the help of the fore-mentioned laboratory and another one, that used to be situated on Vía Naranja de Lo Curro hill <1>.

In 2005 the German-born Gisela Seewald, who arrived in Colonia Dignidad in 1963, confessed according to Judge Jorge Zepeda, that she applied psychiatric treatment against children, because Schäfer assured her they were possessed.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia_Dignidad
http://www.tiwy.com/pais/chile/dignidad/eng.phtml

[Vincardog]

1. One fewer friend for aWoL to visit during his exile

[Jefferson23]

2. He should be put down in the same fashion you put down a rabid animal.

[emilyg]

8. Yes.

[havocmom]

3. Please edit Subject line to match headline of linked article

Thank you

[Judi Lynn]

6. Moderator, the headline on the post is the headline on the article.

I just got back, and checked to see, and it is the same.

[havocmom]

7. Actjually, no, "Colonia Dignidad founder sentenced for child torture " is the headline

The other words in OP subject line are not part of the headline.

Thank you for your concern about the rules, now we won't do the mod calling either, will we?

Thank you for your adherence to the rules.

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. This should be the headline for Monkeyboy and

his criminal cabal.:mad:

[bluesmail]

5. He looks like such a sweet person. (now that he's facing a jail term)

They seem to be catching many lately.

[rasputin1952]

9. Looks like he'll be dancing in hell w/Hitler soon enough...

what a miserable excuse for a human being...:mad: