Martin Bormann Jr. accused of molestation

BERLIN, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Martin Bormann Jr., son of one of Adolf Hitler's most trusted aides, has been accused of molesting a 12-year-old boy half a century ago when he was a priest.

An Austrian magazine, Profil, reported Bormann, now 80, said he does not remember Victor M., the 63-year-old man who says Bormann sexually assaulted him, The Independent reported. At the time, Bormann was a 30-year-old priest teaching in a boarding school at a Salzburg monastery.

Three other former students at the school described Bormann as physically abusive. Victor M. said he was molested and that Bormann told him no one would believe him if he reported the rapes.

Bormann, who left the priesthood in the 1960s and married a former nun, has spent much of his life denouncing the Holocaust. His father, also named Martin, was head of the party chancellery during World War II and was convicted in absentia and sentenced to death after the war, although he is now believed to have been killed in May 1945 as the Soviet Army took Berlin.

Hitler was the younger Bormann's godfather.

Victor M. told Profil he would like an apology. His lawyer said he needed psychiatric treatment to overcome the effects of the abuse.