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Berlin authorities orchestrated a crackpot scheme to place foster children into the care of known pedophiles, a new report says. Dreamed up by an infamous pederasty advocate and supported by politicians, it only ended recently.
Berlin's Green Party called on Tuesday for an investigation into a massive child abuse scandal that saw foster children placed into the care of pedophiles for more than 30 years - all the way up to 2003. According to a new
report published on Monday, the city's educational authorities and Senate knew what was taking place, and the practice was
"accepted, supported, [and] defended" by left-wing politicians and academics throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
"There were and are networks," Green politician Marianne Burkert-Eulitz told the Berliner Zeitung on Tuesday, calling on the left-wing SPD and FDP parties to own up to their responsibility for the scandal.
Burkert-Eulitz and her party colleagues likely know a thing or two about opening up. The party's predecessor, the Alternative List, was a clearinghouse for lunatic liberationist ideologies in the 1970s and 80s. At the party's
convention in 1985, a splinter group calling itself 'Gays and Pederasts' demanded the legalization of adult/child sex.
The Greens have spent nearly a decade repudiating this sordid slice of their history, but according to Monday's report, their activity was just the tip of the iceberg.
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