Pope Benedict XVI has been accused of turning a deaf ear to repeated warnings about a pedophiliac priest who was later convicted of carnal violation of theological pupils. 

Werner Huth, the psychiatrist tasked with treating the German priest Peter Hullermann, said on Thursday that he had audibly warned the current Pope about the future convict's immorality, The New York Times reported. 

Hullermann was convicted child molestation in the Bavarian town of Grafing in 1986; however, he continued working with altar boys until he was suspended of his duties earlier this month, after the church offered its full cooperation. 

“I said, 'For God's sake, he desperately has to be kept away from working with children,'” Huth was quoted by the daily as saying. “I was very unhappy about the entire story.” 

In 1980, the Pope, the then Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, ordered Hullermann to be treated in Munich. The notorious clergyman was, among other things, accused of eliciting oral sex from an 11-year-old boy. 

He, however, reassumed his duties shortly afterwards. 

Sexual abuse of child pupils at several German Catholic schools, including a monastic boarding school in Bavaria, have sparked a nationwide scandal with more than 150 ex-students coming forward with allegations of suffering abuse during the 1970s and 1980s. 

German Catholic Church is dealing with 300 alleged cases of child abuse across the country. Many of the cases have been reported in regions where Pope Benedict was archbishop. 

Vatican is accused of building up a "wall of silence" around such issues after the Vatican ordered Catholic priests in 2001 to report priestly misbehaviors, even the most serious abuse cases, only to Rome.