2 Members of Secretive German Colony Charged
Two members of a secretive German colony in Chile were indicted on charges that they administered shocks and psychiatric drugs to eight children.
The two were Paul Schaefer, 84, Dignity Colony’s former leader, and Gisela Gruhlke, 75, a doctor at the enclave about 210 miles south of Santiago. Schaefer was arrested in March and Gruhlke on Wednesday.
Colony leaders have been accused of human rights violations, including allowing their facilities to be used as a torture and execution center by the former dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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