Helmut Kentler (1928-2008), a pedagogy professor in pedagogy, conducted an experiment in Germany for 30 years that allowed pedophiles to adopt homeless children, postimees reports citing Deutsche Welle. Berlin's social services turned a blind eye to this, so the scandal around Kentler erupted only in 2015, after the scientist’s death. Now the University of Hildesheim has presented the final investigation in this case. Professor Helmut Kentler began working with youth back in the 1960s when he became a specialist in adolescent education at the Evangelical Academy in Frankfurt. Soon he was appointed the " Kentler’s theory of the need for emancipation of adolescents brought him fame, and in 1966 he became an assistant to one of the most famous German specialists in social pedagogy Klaus Mollenhauer in Berlin. There, Kentler soon headed the department of social pedagogy, published the book “Parents Learn Sexual Education,” and from the mid-1970s until the end of his career in 1996, he taught courses for teachers in Hanover. Kentler is considered one of the most prominent supporters of sexual education of youth. But he also became known after his death as the author of an experiment on the adoption of pedophiles by teenagers.. As the newspaper Die Tageszeitung wrote, Kentler began conducting it back in the late 1960s: homeless boys from 13 to 15 years old participated in the experiment, whom the professor hoped to “resocialize” in this way and accelerate the process of growing up.. Kentler called the results of the first experiments successful in 1988.. He was convinced that sexual relations between adoptive fathers and adopted boys do no harm.. And he justified his experiment by the fact that the guardians should have a reason to take care of street teens. In his opinion, sexual interest is just such a reason. Died professor, who himself lived with three adoptive sons, in 2008. After Kentler’s death, Die Tageszeitung called him an “emancipator”. The organization for the struggle for civil rights " A few years after Kentler's death, they began to write in a completely different way about his life and work.. In 2013, political scientist Franz Walter stated that the professor played a key role in the pedophile movement, the Hannoversche Allgemeine wrote.. Two years later, the Berlin Senate organized an investigation into the Kentler experiment, which education senator Sandra Scheeres, according to tabloid B. Berlin, called " The results of the study showed that the experiment really took place. But details about the number of victims and its duration were not known, Der Tagesspiegel reported. The authors managed to talk with one of the participants in the experiment, who said that he still has not recovered from psychological trauma.. The authorities opened a special hotline for those who could still be touched by such experiments. Subsequent studies revealed that the experiments continued from the 1960s and at least until the early 2000s. Employees of the University of Hildesheim in the current work studied documents and interview records with victims of the experiment. They found that it was a whole network in the field of education, including the Senate of Berlin, where pedophilia was “accepted, supported and defended”. Among the findings, it was also indicated that several foster pedophile fathers were senior scientists from the Max Planck Institute, the Free University of Berlin, and the Odenwald School, around which a scandal involving child molestation broke out in 2014. Senator Scheeres called the results of the study "