Bonn - A young man who escaped from Chile's secretive enclave known as "Colonia Dignidad" has accused its leader, German-born Paul Schafer, of raping him, press reports said yesterday. "Like all other youths at his service, he raped me," said Mr Tobias Muller in an interview published by the news magazine Der Spiegel.
"As time goes by one gets used to sexual abuse. It is useless to resist Schafer as he constantly has a gun on his bedside table."
Mr Muller (24), who was sent to the colony by his mother when he was 10 years old, said Mr Schafer abused him for seven or eight years. "Older boys did not interest him."
Mr Schafer (76), a captain in the German army during the second World War, is wanted by police for a variety of crimes, including paedophilia.
Mr Muller arrived in Frankfurt, Germany, on August 2nd in the company of 18-year-old Gonzalo Luna after the two escaped from the community near Parral, in the Chilean Andes mountains.
--(Reuter)