In 2011, Bormann was accused by a former pupil at an Austrian Catholic boarding school of having raped him as a 12-year-old when Bormann was working there as a priest and schoolmaster in the early 1960s. Other former pupils alleged severe physical violence had been used against them and others. Suffering from dementia, Bormann was unwilling and/or incapable to comment on the accusations. No legal proceedings followed, but the independent , established to investigate abuse by Catholic Church members in Austria, awarded the accuser compensation.