Chile Sentences Ex-Nazi For Abusing Children
Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff Reporter
Santiago, Chile (AHN) - A Chilean court sentences the former leader of a German colony to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing 25 children on the premises. BBC News reports Paul Schaefer, 84, is a former Nazi who founded the colony in 1961. The court ordered him to pay $1.5 million in compensation. Prosecutors accuse colony leaders of working with the secret police during Pinochet's military dictatorship. They are also accused of holding most of the commune's residents against their will. BBC reports that Schaefer faces separate charges of letting the secret police use the commune to torture left-wing dissidents in the 1970s and 1980s. He denies the accusation. Schaefer fled Chile in 1997 and hid in Argentina. He was convicted of sex crimes in absentia. He was found in March 2005 and sent back for a new trial.
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