A growing cross-jurisdictional tracker · 1020 core incident records · 130 institutional-event annotations · 1262 case pages · 2198 source records
A court-record database of cases where spiritual authority was the instrument of harm: 1020 core records across roughly 120 countries, spanning 1819–2026, drawn from criminal convictions that stood on appeal and official commission findings — not allegations presented as fact. Read the thesis
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2026 Huntsville, AL, USA
Adrian Derrell Davis: five-year sentence for embezzling funds entrusted to him as pastor
2026 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Archdiocese of Quebec: $31.5M class-action settlement for clergy abuse dating to 1940
2026 Andalgalá, Catamarca Province, Argentina
Argentina: priest convicted of sexually abusing a boy over a decade earlier, sentenced after a trial delayed ten years
2026 Athens, Greece
Ark of the World: appellate convictions for physical abuse and punitive treatment
2026 Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, Australia
Australia: 88-year-old church volunteer jailed decades later for abusing a girl at a Sydney congregation his own pastor covered up
2026 Faridpur, Bangladesh
Bangladesh: madrasa director sentenced to ten years for attempted rape of a 15-year-old hifz student
2026 Charghat, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Bangladesh: mosque imam sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a twelve-year-old child from the community he taught
2026 Berlin, Germany
Berlin: rabbi convicted of assaulting a woman he offered to counsel using claimed spiritual powers
2026 Altamira, Pará, Brazil
Brazil: ex-pastor sentenced to over 26 years for raping children of church members during congregation activities
2026 Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Brazil: ex-priest convicted of raping a nine-year-old he approached under cover of 2024 flood relief at his parish
2026 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Brazil: former Catholic priest convicted of raping more than sixty children over decades in the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte
2026 Parnaíba, Piauí, Brazil
Brazil: futsal coach and pastor sentenced to over 103 years for grooming eleven adolescents with distorted scripture
2026 São Cristóvão, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Brazil: pai de santo sentenced for raping a ten-year-old who attended his terreiro
2026 Macapá, Amapá, Brazil
Brazil: pastor convicted of raping a ten-year-old congregant, arrested as a fugitive after four years
2026 Serra Negra, São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil: priest convicted of grooming and sexually abusing an altar server through the Diocese of Amparo
2026 Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Brazil: Umbanda leader convicted for using 'orixás' doctrine to coerce two teenage devotees into sex
2026 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Canada: retired Catholic priest sentenced for sexually abusing an altar boy in 1980s Prince Edward Island
2026 Putaendo, Santiago, Talca, Concepción, Valdivia and Punta Arenas, Chile
Chile: civil court finds the Salesian order followed a 'systematic and institutional pattern' enabling sexual abuse of students across six cities, orders damages to nine survivors
2026 Shangdu County, Inner Mongolia, China
China: itinerant 'master' convicted after telling a mother and daughter a curse required a virgin's blood
2026 Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador
Cuenca curandero: appellate court imposes twenty-nine-year sentence after assault during medicine sessions
2026 El Omrane, Tunis, Tunisia
El Omrane ruqya killing: murder conviction after a fatal claimed healing session
2026 Baltimore, MD, USA
Erik Madison: 764 member pleads guilty to exploiting minors
2026 Satakunta region, Finland
Finland: parish pastor convicted of sexually messaging three children in his youth ministry
2026 Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Germany: five-year Paderborn archdiocese study finds 210 accused and 489 victims, nearly double prior counts
2026 Giengen an der Brenz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Germany: Islamic religious teacher convicted on 18 counts for abusing boys in the dormitory he ran
2026 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Germany: Pauline-order priest convicted of abusing two intoxicated boys of his parish
2026 Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
Gran Canaria: Yoruba/Santería 'padrino' convicted of fraud for a coerced 'coronación' initiation payment
2026 Haupiri, West Coast, New Zealand
Howard Temple / Gloriavale: 12 guilty pleas; High Court substitutes home detention on sentence appeal
2026 Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary
Hungary: priest sentenced to nine years, court finding he exploited the trust placed in a clergyman
2026 London, UK
Imam Abdul Halim Khan: life, 21 sexual offences; victims' beliefs used to silence them (CPS)
2026 Kurara, Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
India: cleric sentenced to life for raping his Urdu-Arabic student inside a mosque
2026 Khurai, Sagar District, Madhya Pradesh, India
India: itinerant religious preacher (kathavachak) sentenced to life for kidnapping and repeatedly raping a girl he met while conducting a temple storytelling event
2026 Mullassery, Thrissur, Kerala, India
India: madrasa teacher's 20-year POCSO sentence upheld by the Kerala High Court
2026 Robertsganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, India
India: self-styled 'ojha' faith healer and an accomplice sentenced to life for assaulting a woman under an exorcism pretext
2026 Nalagarh, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India
India: self-styled healer sentenced to life for raping a woman who sought treatment, then threatening her family with tantric curses
2026 Vadakkankulam, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
India: Tamil Nadu church priest sentenced under POCSO for assaulting a seven-year-old visitor
2026 Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
India: temple priest convicted of abusing a girl after claiming she was possessed
2026 Kalarahanga, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
India: temple priest given life for murdering a woman he held at his temple on a promise of curing infertility
2026 Sozhapuram, Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, India
India: temple priest sentenced to 178 years for sexually assaulting three children
2026 Sumenep, East Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: pesantren head sentenced to 20 years for abusing eight boarding students
2026 Lombok Barat, Indonesia
Indonesia: pesantren leader convicted over abuse of at least 22 santriwati across seven years
2026 Soreang, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: pesantren ustaz's 17-year sentence for assaulting eight santriwati affirmed on appeal
2026 Trenggalek, East Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: two pesantren leaders convicted of abusing four minor santriwati
2026 Ireland (location withheld to protect victim identity; tried at the Central Criminal Court)
Ireland: church pastor, 83, jailed 12.5 years for abusing a child in his congregation in the church bathroom
2026 Meridian, ID, USA
Isaiah Teague: life sentence after abuse of a child he met as a youth pastor
2026 St Catherine, Jamaica
Jamaica: Catholic priest sentenced to 12 years for abusing a twelve-year-old on the church compound
2026 Guadeloupe
Jean-Luc Promeneur: seventeen-year sentence for abuse under mystical domination
2026 Orange, NJ, USA
Jesus Is Lord by the Holy Ghost pastors charged with forced labor; Treva Edwards also charged with sex trafficking
2026 Stathern, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
Jon Ruben: 23-year sentence for drugging and abusing boys at his own Christian summer camp
2026 Kitui, Kenya
Kenya: pastor convicted of raping a woman who had sought sanctuary at his church
2026 Shakahola, Kilifi County, Kenya
Kenya: Shakahola preacher pleads guilty to 191 murders of cult members
2026 Detroit, MI, USA
Kingdom of God Global Church leaders charged in multi-state forced-labor conspiracy
2026 Jerusalem, Israel
Knesset panel hears former Bratslav-community members on child marriage and abuse
2026 Miami, FL, USA
Little River: Haitian-Vodou threat to traffic a victim
2026 Manazary, Miarinarivo, Madagascar
Madagascar: prayer-house pastor convicted of raping a blind girl sent to him for healing
2026 Tanah Merah, Kelantan, Malaysia
Malaysia: Quran teacher jailed nine years for assaulting three boy students at mosques
2026 Centro, Tabasco, Mexico
Mexico: Concilio Nacional de las Asambleas de Dios state leader convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl, thirty-two years
2026 Michigan, USA
Michigan attorney general's diocese-by-diocese clergy investigation: 1,276 tips, 11 criminal cases, 9 convictions
2026 Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA
Mississippi: minister convicted on twelve counts of sexual battery of a girl he took in as a family's pastor, using threats of eternal damnation to control her
2026 Moldova
Moldova: self-proclaimed 'messiah' given life imprisonment for enslaving a family and raping their daughters
2026 Las Vegas, NV, USA
Nathan Chasing Horse: 13 felony convictions and 37-years-to-life sentence
2026 Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand: church pastor sentenced for assaulting girls from his congregation over two decades
2026 Dunedin and Canterbury, New Zealand
New Zealand: former Dunedin Anglican Dean Jonathan Kirkpatrick convicted of sexually violating a teenager decades earlier
2026 Christchurch, New Zealand
New Zealand: former priest jailed for abusing boarding students at a Catholic college
2026 Ganmo, Ifelodun, Kwara State, Nigeria
Nigeria: general overseer sentenced to life for raping three minor congregants
2026 Umuehieta Avu, Owerri West, Imo State, Nigeria
Nigeria: pastor convicted of raping a church member's wife under a 'holy semen' deliverance pretext
2026 Lagos, Nigeria
Nigeria: sixty-three-year-old pastor sentenced to life imprisonment for drugging and raping a church member's daughter
2026 Euless, Texas, USA
Online Quran instructor 'Imam' Wisam Sharieff: 80-year federal sentence for child sexual exploitation framed as religious practice
2026 Landhi, Karachi, Pakistan
Pakistan: madressah teacher given two 15-year sentences for abusing his students
2026 Sindh, Pakistan
Pakistan: UN experts find systemic forced conversion and marriage of minority women and girls
2026 Fort-de-France, Martinique
Patrick Phanor-Lange: twelve-year sentence for aggravated rape by spiritual authority
2026 Philippines
Philippines: Supreme Court affirms healer's conviction, ruling his authority voided consent
2026 Święcany and Boguchwała, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
Poland: Catholic vicar convicted of sexually abusing five teenage boys, including altar servers, across two parishes
2026 Diocese of Sosnowiec, Poland
Poland: diocesan commission finds at least 50 minor victims and 25 clergy perpetrators over decades in the Diocese of Sosnowiec
2026 Bydgoszcz, Diocese of Bydgoszcz, Poland
Poland: former priest Rafał K. finally convicted for posing as a sexologist to abuse minors and adults under cover of 'therapy'
2026 Elbląg, Poland
Poland: Franciscan friar 'Brother Polikarp' convicted of molesting girls during confession and family retreats
2026 Faial Island, Azores, Portugal
Portugal: Azores priest convicted of attempted sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl in his care
2026 Rhode Island, USA
Rhode Island attorney general report: 75 credibly accused clergy and over 300 reported victims
2026 Krasnodar, Russia
Russia: 'School of Life' founder sentenced to 20 years for exploiting followers under exorcism and divinity claims
2026 Lasswade and Kilmarnock, Scotland, UK (tried at Edinburgh Sheriff Court)
Scotland: three former Sisters of Nazareth nuns convicted of cruel and unnatural treatment of children in their care
2026 Cardonald, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (tried at Glasgow Sheriff Court)
Scotland: two former Sisters of Nazareth nuns plead guilty to abusing eight children at Nazareth House, Glasgow
2026 Touba and Diourbel, Senegal
Serigne Khadim Mbacké: twenty-year sentence for abuse of Quranic-school pupils
2026 Ang Mo Kio, Singapore
Singapore: home-temple founder jailed for assaulting a girl during lessons at his temple residence
2026 Virginia, Free State, South Africa
South Africa: self-proclaimed pastor sentenced to 55 years for raping members of his own 'Team of Prophecy'
2026 Mamelodi, Gauteng, South Africa
South Africa: traditional healer sentenced to life for raping a 15-year-old
2026 Málaga, Spain
Spain: priest sentenced to 52 years for drugging and assaulting four women he guided spiritually
2026 Thambuttegama, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: chief monk sentenced to 30 years for abusing a boy who came to be ordained
2026 Galenbindunuwewa, North Central Province, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: temple chief incumbent sentenced to 24 years for abusing a boy in his care
2026 Rorschach, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Switzerland: self-styled hypnosis coach convicted of sexually abusing two women he put in trance
2026 Xindian, New Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan: shrine master convicted of indecent assault committed under the guise of an exorcism
2026 Taitung, Taiwan
Taiwan: spirit medium convicted for telling a client that talismans inside her body would kill her
2026 Tarnów, Poland
Tarnów bishop on trial over alleged delay in reporting child-abuse allegations against priests
2026 Sathon district, Bangkok, Thailand
Thailand: two Bangkok monks charged with raping and filming at least seven novices after luring them with phones, cash and alcohol
2026 Yan Nawa, Sathorn, Bangkok, Thailand
Thailand: two monks arrested for raping novices lured with mobile-game access at Wat Charoen Krung
2026 The Hague, Netherlands
The Hague court convicts a spiritual healer of rape and sexual assault during healing sessions
2026 Uduwila, Elpitiya, Sri Lanka
Uduwila Sujatha: Court of Appeal affirms ten-year sentence for abuse of a child preparing for ordination
2026 Tokyo, Japan
Unification Church in Japan: final dissolution order over organized unlawful donation solicitation
2026 Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: agency worker jailed 16 years for raping and abusing boys he groomed at a Birmingham mosque
2026 North London, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: church deacon convicted of sexually abusing four young men over four decades
2026 Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: former mosque leader convicted of abusing a girl from his Quran lessons
2026 Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: pastor who founded his own church convicted of sexual offences against children and young women met through his ministry
2026 Bradford, Huddersfield and Settle, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: priest already serving 18 years jailed a further 8.5 years for more parish sex offences against boys
2026 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom (tried at Gloucester Crown Court)
United Kingdom: volunteer imam jailed 6 years for sexually assaulting two young girls during Quran lessons
2026 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: ZAOGA church elder convicted of rape sentenced in absentia, fled before sentencing
2026 Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA
United States: Alabama children's pastor sentenced for sodomizing boys in his ministry
2026 Cobb County, Georgia, USA
United States: Cobb County church leader sentenced to 25 years for grooming a teen through a new youth group
2026 Thornton, Colorado, USA
United States: Colorado youth pastor convicted of assaulting a teen he oversaw in his church's youth ministry
2026 Nampa, Idaho, USA
United States: Costa Rican priest sentenced to 15 years for abusing a teenager in his parish
2026 Adrian, Michigan, USA
United States: former Adrian, Michigan pastor sentenced for sex crimes against boys at his church and its juvenile campus
2026 Williamsville, New York, USA
United States: former executive pastor pleads guilty to raping two children he met through his church
2026 Livermore, California, USA
United States: former LDS bishop and boys' youth-group leader charged with abusing four boys over a decade
2026 Lubbock, Texas, USA
United States: former Lubbock student pastor sentenced to 40 years for assaulting a child at his church
2026 Manatee County, Florida, USA
United States: former Manatee County senior pastor gets triple life sentence for child rape and abuse material
2026 Town of Summit, Douglas County, Wisconsin, USA
United States: former Minnesota pastor sentenced to life for repeated sexual assault of a child at his Wisconsin cabin
2026 Livingston, Park County, Montana, USA
United States: former Montana pastor sentenced to 30 years for raping two sisters from his congregation
2026 San Antonio, Texas, USA
United States: forty years for the leader of a 764 splinter that coerced children on camera
2026 Jackson, Tennessee, USA
United States: Jackson, Tennessee youth pastor sentenced for sexual relationship with a 17-year-old congregant
2026 Hilo, Hawaii, USA
United States: leader of a 764 splinter network sentenced to the statutory maximum
2026 Blanchester, Clinton County, Ohio, USA
United States: Ohio pastor sentenced after 'trust becomes access' abuse of a teenager he knew through his church
2026 Osceola County, Florida, USA
United States: Osceola County pastor found guilty of raping a church member who sought spiritual guidance
2026 Luling and Waco, Texas, USA
United States: priest Anthony Odiong given life for sexually assaulting women under his spiritual direction
2026 Ruckersville, Greene County, Virginia, USA
United States: Virginia pastor sentenced for sexually abusing a minor and embezzling church funds
2026 Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia, USA
United States: West Virginia pastor found guilty of sexually-motivated battery against a congregant during spiritual counseling
2026 Astana, Kazakhstan
Unnamed TikTok healer: final fraud conviction for paid magical-healing claims
2026 Efate, Shefa Province, Vanuatu
Vanuatu: pastor convicted by the Supreme Court of repeated indecency against two girls in his congregation
2026 Yilan County, Taiwan
Yilan Taoist temple shaman Huang Kuo-ching: 25 years for 39 counts of sexual assault framed as ritual 'sexual treatment'
2026 Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Zachary King: former LexCity executive pastor sentenced after admitting sexual offenses against a minor congregant
2026 Gweru, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: self-styled prophet convicted of raping a client during a ritual 'cleansing'
2026 Gweru, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: self-styled prophet jailed for raping a congregant lured to a 'spiritual cleansing'
2026 Bikita, Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: traditional healer jailed 20 years for raping a client during an overnight 'cleansing'
2025 San Martín, Mendoza, Argentina
Argentina: evangelical pastor convicted of statutory rape aggravated by his position as minister of a congregation, against a 15-year-old member
2025 San Martín, Mendoza, Argentina
Argentina: pastor convicted of statutory rape aggravated by his status as 'minister of a cult'
2025 Santa Fe, Argentina
Argentina: pastor sentenced to ten years for repeatedly abusing an adult congregant who feared disbelief
2025 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Australia: Chabad figure Velvel Serebryanski convicted of raping and molesting a child at Melbourne's Yeshivah Centre
2025 Panchlaish, Chattogram, Bangladesh
Bangladesh: madrasa director jailed until death for raping six child students
2025 Lohagara, Chattogram, Bangladesh
Bangladesh: madrasa hifz-section teacher sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his nine-year-old residential student
2025 Lohagara, Chattogram, Bangladesh
Bangladesh: madrasa Huffaz-department teacher sentenced to death for raping a twelve-year-old student
2025 Tucson, AZ, USA
Baron Martin (764 network): DOJ terrorism-support charges (indictment — charges only)
2025 Limelette, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
Belgium: seminary vice-rector convicted of repeatedly raping a seminarian under his formation
2025 Beitbridge, Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe
Bishop Chrispen Gomore: culpable-homicide conviction after fatal 'exorcism' flogging
2025 Cochabamba, Bolivia
Bolivia: two former Jesuit provincial superiors convicted of covering up Alfonso Pedrajas's abuse of boarding-school children, sentence affirmed on appeal
2025 Mochudi, Botswana
Botswana: pastor sentenced to twenty years for raping a woman who confided her trauma to him
2025 Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil
Brazil: Foursquare Church pastor convicted of sexually harassing minors in his youth counselling group
2025 Paranaguá, Paraná, Brazil
Brazil: Indian-born parish priest convicted of sexually abusing a parishioner during a spiritual counseling session
2025 Três de Maio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Brazil: pai de santo sentenced to 259 years for rapes framed as a 'purification process'
2025 Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Brazil: pastor convicted of using overnight 'spiritual healing' prayer sessions to sexually violate four congregants by fraud
2025 Samambaia, Federal District, Brazil
Brazil: self-declared prophet convicted of coercing followers into sex through fraudulent 'curse-breaking' rituals
2025 Fada N'Gourma, Est Region, Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: self-styled pastor convicted of raping a 10-year-old brought to him for deliverance prayer to treat epilepsy
2025 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Canada: Saskatoon Ukrainian Catholic priest convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old parishioner
2025 Heredia and San José, Costa Rica
Carlos Chavarría Fonseca: affirmed thirty-six-year sentence and a later child-rape conviction
2025 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Cecil Wolfe: eight years after a self-styled Cree 'medicine man' used healer status to sexually assault twelve women
2025 Paramaribo, Suriname
Cedric Landveld: conviction after sexual abuse during prayer and anointing
2025 Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Criciúma spiritual-healing leader: forty-year sentence for crimes against ten women
2025 Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
Ecuador: evangelical pastor sentenced to 29 years after claiming a child was under demonic influence
2025 La Vega and Guaduas, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Édgar Orlando Gaitán Camacho: fourteen-year appellate sentence for assaults during yagé healing rituals
2025 Talkha, Dakahlia, Egypt
Egypt: mosque imam's life sentence for assaulting a Quran student upheld on cassation
2025 Sonsonate, El Salvador
El Salvador: priest convicted of raping a parishioner over three years in the parish house — first Central American conviction from an adult clergy-abuse survivor
2025 Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Elizabeth Struhs: 'The Saints' leader convicted of manslaughter for directing an 8-year-old's parents to stop her insulin
2025 San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras
Erick Geovany Zambrano Estrada: three convictions tied to Sunday-school access
2025 Zadar, Croatia
Fr Darko Marušić (Zadar): criminal conviction for child exploitation and attempted sexual abuse
2025 Frutal, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Frutal Umbanda leader: nearly fifty years for sexual crimes presented as rituals
2025 Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Germany: former Bielefeld deacon convicted of abusing persons in his church care, confession entered
2025 Hamburg, Germany
Germany: Hamburg sect leader's conviction for sexually coercing young female members affirmed on appeal
2025 Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany
Germany: independent Würzburg diocese report finds 226 victims, most abuse unpunished before 2000
2025 Dieburg, Hesse, Germany
Germany: octogenarian Mainz diocese priest fined for a 1997 child sexual abuse offence
2025 Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Germany: Trier diocese's own review finds 711 victims and 234 accused, far above the national MHG study
2025 Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Germany: University of Mannheim study finds 150 suspected Speyer diocese perpetrators, children's homes as 'hotspots'
2025 Weija, Accra, Ghana
Ghana: evangelist sentenced for defrauding congregants with a claimed spiritual money-doubling ritual
2025 Osuwem, Shai-Osudoku District, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Ghana: fetish priest sentenced to fifteen years for defiling and impregnating a fifteen-year-old girl entrusted to him
2025 Arta, Greece
Greece: village priest convicted of raping a child from age seven over seven years
2025 Hämeenlinna region, Finland
Hämeenlinna faith-movement 'prophet': first-instance convictions for sexual abuse, violence and extortion
2025 Gaya, Bihar, India
India: 'Baba' convicted under POCSO for raping a girl he had drawn into temple worship visits
2025 Mohali, Punjab, India
India: celebrity healing pastor Bajinder Singh sentenced to life for rape
2025 Surat, Gujarat, India
India: Digambar Jain muni sentenced to 10 years for raping a woman who sought him as her guru
2025 Anadara, Sirohi, Rajasthan, India
India: history-sheeter tantrik sentenced to life for luring a minor under a superstition pretext and forcing a fraudulent marriage
2025 Shaheen Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
India: Hyderabad madrasa teacher sentenced to 20 years under POCSO
2025 Vengara, Malappuram, Kerala, India
India: madrasa teacher sentenced to 86 years for raping a 12-year-old student inside the institution
2025 Taliparamba, Kannur, Kerala, India
India: repeat-offender madrasa teacher sentenced to 187 years for assaulting a student
2025 Kayu Agung, South Sumatra, Indonesia
Indonesia: dukun convicted of raping a client's daughter under a 'spirit marriage' ritual
2025 Pasean, Pamekasan, East Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: dukun convicted of raping a patient during a healing session
2025 Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: head of a Quran-memorization house sentenced to 15 years for molesting his pupils
2025 Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: pastor convicted of abusing children lured into private 'prayer sessions'
2025 Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: pesantren head's 15-year sentence for abusing four santriwati affirmed on appeal
2025 Martapura, Banjar, South Kalimantan, Indonesia
Indonesia: pesantren leader's 12-year sentence for abusing santri under a bad-luck-removal ritual pretext
2025 Pringgarata, Lombok Tengah, Indonesia
Indonesia: pesantren leader's 15-year sentence for raping a santriwati — final at the Supreme Court
2025 Ciputat, Tangerang Selatan, Indonesia
Indonesia: Quran teacher sentenced to 20 years for raping pupils under an 'aura-opening' ritual
2025 Belcastro, Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy
Italy: Calabria parish priest's conviction for sexually abusing seventeen parish children becomes final
2025 Aci Bonaccorsi, Catania, Italy
Italy: Lavina community leader convicted after court finds 'purification acts' were sexual violence
2025 Genoa, tried in Savona, Italy
Italy: priest sentenced to 10 years for repeated sexual violence against a 12-year-old altar boy
2025 Aversa, Caserta, Italy
Italy: priest's conviction for maltreatment during unauthorized exorcisms confirmed by Cassation
2025 Enna, Piazza Armerina, Sicilia, Italy
Italy: priest's conviction for sexual violence against minors made final by Cassazione
2025 Daejeon, South Korea
Jeong Myeong-seok / JMS: Supreme Court affirms 17-year sentence
2025 Los Alcarrizos, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Johan Manuel Castillo Ortega: ten-year sentence for abuse of six child congregants
2025 Aktobe, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: folk healer convicted of defrauding 136 clients of some 580 million tenge
2025 Jerusalem, Israel
Knesset hearings and active police review of organized ritual sexual-abuse allegations
2025 Ouesso, Republic of the Congo
Lili Endakeki: five-year sentence for abusive claimed spiritual treatment
2025 Towaoc, CO, USA
Lyndreth Hemp Wall: 15 federal convictions for assaults during purported spiritual treatment
2025 Air Papan, Mersing, Johor, Malaysia
Malaysia: tahfiz school teacher convicted on 15 charges of abusing a resident student
2025 Guadalupe, Chihuahua, Mexico
Mexico: priest sentenced for sexually abusing a girl during confession before her First Communion at a Ciudad Juárez-area parish
2025 Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Michael Geilenfeld: 210-year federal sentence for abuse of boys at the Haitian orphanage he founded
2025 Leelanau County, MI, USA
Michigan attorney general opens criminal investigation into Twin Flames Universe
2025 Macomb County, Michigan, USA
Michigan: priest Neil Kalina's second-degree criminal sexual conduct conviction affirmed on appeal
2025 Zaouiat Sidi Bilal, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco
Morocco: Ouarzazate-area mosque imam convicted after confessing to abusing girls in Quran lessons
2025 El Maachate, Safi Province, Morocco
Morocco: Safi mosque imam's 20-year sentence for abusing Quran-memorization students
2025 New Jersey, USA
New Jersey Supreme Court clears state grand jury to investigate Catholic clergy abuse, ending a seven-year legal block
2025 Whanganui, New Zealand
New Zealand: Society of Saint Pius X religious brother convicted of sexually abusing an altar boy he supervised at a parish school
2025 Abuja, FCT, Nigeria
Nigeria: bishop sentenced to 20 years for raping a congregant's child entrusted to his care
2025 Calabar, Cross River, Nigeria
Nigeria: general overseer given life for raping his sixteen-year-old 'spiritual daughter'
2025 Marysville, Ohio, USA
Ohio: accredited minister and pastoral trainer convicted of abusing a Bible Baptist Church congregant's daughter
2025 Brooklyn, NY, USA
OneTaste leaders convicted of forced-labor conspiracy
2025 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Pastor Jonas: conviction for a public witchcraft accusation during prayer
2025 Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
Philippines: priest convicted of raping a scholar housed in the Bishop's residence
2025 Rzeszów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
Poland: former priest Dominik R. sentenced to five years for molesting five boys in catechism classroom
2025 Braga, Portugal
Portugal: priest convicted on 18 counts of child sexual abuse from parish activities
2025 Quebec, Canada
Quebec: Court of Appeal authorizes class action against the Order of Dominicans naming nine friars including Benoît Lacroix
2025 Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
Quebec: Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe settlement of $8.94 million approved by Superior Court
2025 Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
Quebec: Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil settlement of $6.48 million approved by Superior Court
2025 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Quebec: pastor jailed four years for assaulting a congregant who called him her spiritual father
2025 Huși, Vaslui, Romania
Romania: bishop and archimandrite convicted of raping theological seminary students
2025 Frăsinei Monastery, Vâlcea County, Romania
Romania: monk at Frăsinei Monastery finally convicted of raping two boys, nine-year sentence
2025 Bucharest, Romania
Romania: priest convicted of sexually assaulting a woman who came to him for confession
2025 Militari, Bucharest, Romania
Romania: priest finally convicted of sexually assaulting a woman during confession
2025 Omsk, Russia
Russia: priest convicted over a boy sent to stay overnight so he could serve the liturgy
2025 Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
Russia: two convicted over an unregistered religious boarding school where children were beaten and confined
2025 Orava region, Slovakia
Slovakia: former priest convicted in landmark ruling of sexually abusing a 12-year-old pupil at his church school
2025 Burco, Togdheer, Somaliland
Somaliland: Quranic school teacher convicted on appeal of abusing two of his students
2025 Mamelodi East, Pretoria, South Africa
South Africa: life sentence for a pastor who raped a twelve-year-old of his congregation
2025 Nquthu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
South Africa: pastor given ten life terms for serially raping and assaulting twelve children lured with spiritual-guidance pretexts
2025 Edenburg, Free State, South Africa
South Africa: pastor's husband sentenced to life for raping an orphaned child taken into the pastor's household
2025 Letsitele, Limpopo, South Africa
South Africa: prophet given two life terms for raping teenage ushers he told sex 'transferred the Holy Spirit'
2025 Mokgaladi, Nebo, Limpopo, South Africa
South Africa: traditional healer given life for raping minors during a cleansing ritual
2025 Molopo, North West, South Africa
South Africa: traditional healer sentenced to fifteen years for raping and attempting to rape two clients seeking treatment
2025 Sixhotyeni village, Gqogqorha, Tsomo, Eastern Cape, South Africa
South Africa: ulwaluko initiation caregiver convicted of assaulting an initiate
2025 Seoul, South Korea
South Korea: Jin-Gak Order and official convicted after retaliation against a monk's accuser
2025 Busan, South Korea
South Korea: senior pastor's conviction for molesting five congregants affirmed by the Supreme Court
2025 Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
South Korea: unlicensed 'pastor' and academy director convicted of confining and isolating congregants' children
2025 Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland
Switzerland: school chaplain and cantonal religious-education head convicted over abuse on prayer trips
2025 Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Switzerland: Ticino priest convicted of sexually coercing nine parishioners, four of them minors
2025 Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan: temple master convicted under the statute for abusing a relationship of authority
2025 Taichung, Taiwan
Taiwan: temple master's sentence increased to 16 years for rapes framed as a fate-changing ritual
2025 Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Bradford imam jailed 13 years for repeatedly raping a boy at his mosque
2025 Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Chatham imam convicted on sixteen counts against four children
2025 West Cross, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom (tried at Swansea Crown Court)
United Kingdom: former Bishop of Swansea and Brecon jailed for indecently assaulting a boy while a parish priest
2025 Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom (tried at Inner London Crown Court)
United Kingdom: leader of the Church of England's 'Nine O'Clock Service' convicted of indecent assaults on nine women
2025 Criccieth, Gwynedd, North Wales, United Kingdom (tried at Mold Crown Court)
United Kingdom: North Wales pastor and former BBC presenter jailed over 10 years for abusing more than 30 boys and men at Christian camps
2025 Rochdale, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: private Quran tutor jailed 14 years for a decade of assaults on five young Muslim girls
2025 Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: sentencing remarks tie 764 to the Order of Nine Angles in the court record itself
2025 Kansas City, KS, USA
United Nation of Islam leaders sentenced in child forced-labor conspiracy
2025 Pawhuska, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
United States: Gateway Church founder Robert Morris pleads guilty to child sexual abuse of a girl in his ministerial care
2025 Sacramento County, California, USA
United States: hospice chaplain sentenced for sexually assaulting an unconscious dying patient during a pastoral visit
2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
United States: Jehovah's Witness congregant convicted of using his standing in the church to assault a four-year-old he lived among
2025 Hernando, Mississippi, USA
United States: Mississippi youth pastor pleads guilty to sexual battery of a teenager she was mentoring
2025 Mobile, Alabama, USA
United States: Mobile, Alabama pastor sentenced for sexual misconduct with two former church members
2025 Terrytown, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, USA
United States: Terrytown, Louisiana pastor sentenced to 80 years for raping teenage boys he groomed through his ministry
2025 Longview, Gregg County, Texas, USA
United States: Texas church deacon convicted of indecency with a child left in his care during Bible study, affirmed
2025 Tupelo, Mississippi, USA
United States: Tupelo youth minister convicted of sexual battery of a 16-year-old church member
2025 Catonsville and Reisterstown, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
United States: Youth for Christ leader Kevin Guy pleads guilty to sexually abusing teens in his youth group
2025 Lima, Peru
Vatican suppresses Sodalitium Christianae Vitae after official investigation
2025 Higüey, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic
Víctor Manuel Kery and Robinson Peguero: convictions after overnight church vigils
2025 Chợ Mới, An Giang, Vietnam
Vietnam: former deputy abbot convicted of abusing four child temple volunteers
2025 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Vietnam: self-styled 'living Buddha' convicted of raping women he treated as disciples
2025 District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Vietnam: self-styled energy healer's eight-year sentence for raping seven women during treatment
2025 Novosibirsk, Russia
Vissarion community leaders: convictions for psychological violence and serious harm
2025 Nyabira, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: apostolic sect leader convicted of raping a minor congregant — conviction under appeal
2024 La Matanza, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Abba Krishna: four convictions for aggravated human trafficking
2024 Istanbul, Turkey
Adnan Oktar: final convictions for sexual abuse, confinement and coercion within his organization
2024 Antwerp, Belgium
Belgium: imam sentenced to six years for abusing two boys in the mosque context
2024 Brussels, Belgium
Belgium: parliamentary commission issues 137 recommendations on abuse in the Church, following 'Godvergeten'
2024 Hortolândia, São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil: pai de santo convicted over thirteen victims — court finds systematic use of his religious influence
2024 Braço do Norte, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Brazil: pastor jailed for over thirty-seven years for abusing two boys from his church
2024 Barcarena, Pará, Brazil
Brazil: pastor sentenced to ninety-one years for abusing five boys of his congregation
2024 Criciúma region, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Brazil: religious leader sentenced to 45 years for sexual crimes against four women seeking spiritual help
2024 São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil: terreiro leader convicted of abusing five women told sex was 'spiritual cleansing'
2024 Bulaq al-Dakrur, Giza, Egypt
Bulaq spiritual healer: ten-year sentence for coercive recording and extortion
2024 Dolbeau and Mistassini, Quebec, Canada
Canada: Quebec court authorizes class action against a teaching congregation over decades of abuse at church-run schools
2024 Temuco, Araucanía, Chile
Chile: Pentecostal pastor sentenced to 10 years for repeated abuse of a child under 14
2024 Jacmel, Haiti
Dana Jackson (US) dies at a manbo initiation retreat
2024 Longford, Ireland
David Reilly: conviction for assault during an energy-healing session
2024 Washington, DC, USA
DC 'psychic' $4M extortion scheme (10+ yrs)
2024 Lame Deer, MT, USA
Dean Alan Smith: convictions and thirty-year sentence for abuse of children who trusted him as pastor
2024 Aubin, Aveyron, France
France: 'guru' and accomplice convicted of raping a teenager under an exorcism pretext
2024 Cléry-Saint-André, Loiret; Perros-Guirec, Côtes-d'Armor, France
France: basilica rector Olivier de Scitivaux's rape and sexual-assault conviction final after he withdrew appeal
2024 Douvres-la-Délivrande, Normandy, France
France: Maronite priest convicted in absentia of raping minors at the children's home he ran
2024 Bordeaux, Gironde; Angoulême, Charente, France
France: self-styled 'sorcerer guru' convicted on appeal for raping a student he claimed to be spiritually cleansing
2024 Seine-Saint-Denis, France
France: self-styled marabout given the maximum 15 years for raping nine women under a jinn-healing pretext
2024 Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany
Germany: Augsburg diocese priest's conviction for abusing a dependent becomes final on appeal
2024 Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Germany: ForuM study finds 1,259 accused and 2,225 affected in the Evangelical Church and diaconal services
2024 Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Germany: Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese's own count reaches 454 victims and 241 accused since 1946
2024 Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, Germany
Germany: Würzburg diocese chaplain's conviction for abusing an altar server becomes final
2024 Selangor, Malaysia
GISBH (Al-Arqam successor): mass child abuse in company-run welfare homes
2024 Gran Canaria, Spain
Gran Canaria court convicts a Santería practitioner who used rites to assault a child
2024 Southern Corfu, Metropolis of Corfu and the Ionian Islands, Greece
Greece: village priest convicted of the continuous seduction of a 16-year-old parishioner inside the church
2024 Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Guatemala: pastor sentenced to 33 years for aggravated sexual assault of a minor congregant
2024 Hong Kong
Hong Kong: children's-home pastor jailed after drugging and assaulting six teenage residents
2024 Hong Kong
Hong Kong: life imprisonment for the death of a disabled disciple declared spirit-possessed
2024 Ernakulam, Kerala, India
India: Catholic vicar's conviction for raping a minor parishioner upheld by the Kerala High Court, sentence reduced
2024 Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
India: six convicted in the 1992 Ajmer dargah blackmail-rape case — 32 years on
2024 Padang Tiji, Pidie, Aceh, Indonesia
Indonesia (Aceh): dayah leader sentenced for molesting four santriwati
2024 Langsa, Aceh, Indonesia
Indonesia (Aceh): dayah leader sentenced to 14 years and 150 cane strokes for raping a boy santri and a teacher
2024 Banjarnegara, Central Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: 'Mbah Slamet' — death sentence for poisoning twelve clients of his money-multiplying ritual
2024 Jembrana, Bali, Indonesia
Indonesia: dukun convicted of raping a girl under an 'aura-opening' ritual with supernatural threats
2024 Magetan, East Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: repeat-offender dukun convicted of raping five minors via a spirit-pregnancy hoax
2024 Pematang Siantar, North Sumatra, Indonesia
Indonesia: Simalungun Protestant pastor convicted of harassing a congregant
2024 Ireland (national, at least 22 counties)
Ireland: Scoping Inquiry finds 2,395 allegations of historical sexual abuse across 308 schools run by 24 religious orders
2024 Jerusalem, Israel
Israel: seminary 'cult' head convicted of holding women in slavery-like conditions
2024 Avellino, Campania, Italy
Italy: priest's conviction for abusing a thirteen-year-old boy in a residential community becomes final
2024 Tōgane, Chiba, Japan
Japan: temple abbot convicted after court finds he exploited a disciple's 'absolute obedience'
2024 Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA
Jehovah's Witness congregation member Shaun Sheffer: convicted of raping a child of a fellow congregant family over five years
2024 Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
Jesus Fellowship (Jesus Army) Redress Scheme final report finds abuse endemic across community, names founder Noel Stanton among 539 accused
2024 Vredenburg, South Africa
Joslin Smith — mother charged, muti trafficking of a child
2024 Talsi County, Latvia
Latvia: 83-year-old priest sentenced to ten years for sexual violence against five girls
2024 Hertfordshire, UK
Makhan Singh Mauji (granthi): 24+ years, sexual assaults on three girls
2024 Winchester and Iwerne Minster, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
Makin Review: independent inquiry finds Church of England cover-up of John Smyth's Iwerne camp abuse; Archbishop of Canterbury resigns
2024 Mwanza, Malawi
Malawi: prophet jailed for defiling a girl her mother had brought to him for prayer
2024 Cheng, Melaka, Malaysia
Malaysia: bomoh sentenced to 50 years for assaulting a girl under a black-magic-removal pretext
2024 Pagoh, Muar, Johor, Malaysia
Malaysia: bomoh's 35-year sentence for raping a patient under a black-magic-removal pretext
2024 Vázquez de Coronado, San José Province, Costa Rica
Manuel Antonio Guevara Fonseca: eighteen-year sentence for abuse of a child altar server
2024 Camoapa, Boaco, Nicaragua
Mariano Ramón Sánchez Martínez: twenty-two-year sentence after pastoral guardianship
2024 Port-Gentil, Gabon
Martial Mbele Obiang: fifteen-year sentence for abuse framed as divine revelation
2024 Chalnakhel, Dakshinkali, Nepal
Nepal: self-styled tulku convicted of raping a woman held at his monastery for over nine years
2024 New Zealand (national)
New Zealand Royal Commission: Jehovah's Witnesses' own congregation records show an elder had sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old member, treated internally as a matter of reputational damage
2024 Haupiri, West Coast, New Zealand
New Zealand: former Gloriavale leader Jonathan Benjamin convicted on 26 counts of sexual offending against community children spanning three decades
2024 Ikotun, Lagos State, Nigeria
Nigeria: Islamic cleric sentenced to life imprisonment for defiling his fourteen-year-old Quranic student inside a mosque
2024 Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria
Nigeria: Lagos pastor sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a church member
2024 Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria
Nigeria: Winners Chapel (Living Faith Church Worldwide) pastor convicted of raping a 12-year-old congregant at his vicarage
2024 Ticapampa, Áncash, Peru
Peru: priest sentenced to life imprisonment for years of rape of a child in the parish house
2024 Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines
Philippines: South Korean pastor's life sentence for trafficking minors recruited as unpaid theology students affirmed by the Supreme Court
2024 Kinshasa and Moanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Pierre Kasambakana: eleven-year sentence for forced marriage and sexual offenses
2024 Biłgoraj, Zamość, Poland
Poland: priest convicted of molesting a seventeen-year-old at the rectory under a massage pretext
2024 Ostrołęka, Mazovia, Poland
Poland: priest's six-year sentence for molesting a minor confirmed; sourced to the prosecutor's office
2024 Hormigueros and Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: priest convicted of lewd acts against a minor at the Santuario de la Monserrate, court cites his 'relación de superioridad' of religious leadership
2024 Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada
Quebec: Presbyterian minister jailed for sexually abusing the 13-year-old daughter of a congregation member
2024 Philadelphia, PA, USA
Richard Densmore: 30-year sentence for 764-network exploitation and coercion
2024 Cleja, Bacău County, Romania
Romania: Catholic priest convicted of raping a 13-year-old parishioner after diocese handled it canonically for two years
2024 Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Russia: online 'hereditary healer' convicted of defrauding thirteen clients seeking curse-removal
2024 Phoenix, AZ, USA
Samuel Bateman: 50-year sentence in child-marriage and sexual-abuse conspiracy
2024 Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom (tried at High Court sitting in Paisley)
Scotland: priest convicted of what the judge called 'crimes today classified as rape,' extradited from Australia after decades
2024 Mfuleni Location, Mbizana District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
South Africa: illegal ulwaluko initiation-school principal and caregivers convicted after an initiate's beating death
2024 Seoul, South Korea
South Korea: pastor and school founder convicted for molesting North Korean defector students in his care
2024 Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Spain: Cuenca parish priest's final conviction for abusing three children using church property as access
2024 Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Spain: priest's conviction for continuous sexual abuse of a student under his spiritual direction affirmed by Supreme Court
2024 Istanbul, Turkey
Turkey: Hiranur Foundation (İsmailağa-linked) leader and follower convicted for the sexual abuse and forced marriage of the founder's six-year-old daughter
2024 Ümraniye, Istanbul, Turkey
Turkey: Süleymancı boys' dormitory imam sentenced to 28 years for abusing an 11-year-old resident
2024 Lusanja, Wakiso District, Uganda
Uganda: self-proclaimed prophet convicted of defiling choir members from his church
2024 Dakar, Senegal
UN prevention-of-torture review documents forced begging and abuse in Senegal’s daara system
2024 Belfast, Newry and Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Christian Brother and school principal Paul Dunleavy convicted across three trials of 72 sexual-abuse offences against 18 boys
2024 Sedlescombe, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom (tried at Hove Crown Court)
United Kingdom: former Church of England priest jailed for life after raping a six-year-old boy he had baptised, in a church vestry
2024 Watford, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: official findings that Soul Survivor's founder used spiritual authority to coerce youths
2024 Hooke, Dorset, England, United Kingdom (tried at Bournemouth Crown Court)
United Kingdom: priest jailed for non-recent sexual abuse of boys at a Catholic boys' school
2024 Croydon, Streatham and Sydenham, London, United Kingdom (tried at Inner London Crown Court)
United Kingdom: priest who abused at least 11 boys across four south London parishes before fleeing to Ireland jailed again
2024 Ivins, Utah, USA
United States: counselor sentenced for child abuse committed through doctrinal control of a mother
2024 Rexburg, Idaho, USA
United States: doomsday author sentenced to death for murders his followers' doctrine rationalised
2024 United States (national, 37 states and territories)
United States: Interior Department's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative finds 417 church-partnered schools and a federally funded assimilation system
2024 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
United States: Jehovah's Witness elder convicted of molesting three girls of the extended family hosting him
2024 White Oak, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
United States: Jehovah's Witness elder pleads guilty after 'mentoring' a teenager under cover of spiritual guidance
2024 Drama, Greece
Unnamed priest: conviction upheld for sexual touching during confession
2024 Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela
Venezuela: pastor sentenced to 16 years for abusing five children at services held in his home
2023 Cohuna and Burkes Bridge, Victoria, Australia
Australia: evangelical minister Christopher Coleborn jailed for abusing a boy at his own home during a church youth camp
2023 Melbourne, Australia
Australia: Malka Leifer, ultra-Orthodox school principal, convicted of raping students after a 15-year extradition fight
2023 Dakshinkhan, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Bangladesh: madrasa teacher given life imprisonment for raping a student
2023 Kansat, Shibganj, Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh
Bangladesh: madrasa teacher given life imprisonment for raping three girl students
2023 Cochabamba, Bolivia
Bolivia: Jesuit priest's own diary, confirmed by his family and investigated by the Vatican and Bolivian prosecutors, documents his abuse of 85 boarding-school children
2023 Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Brasília pastor: appellate court affirms conviction for abuse presented as curse removal
2023 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Brazil: 'Amor Supremo' temple leader convicted for 'spiritual surgeries' used to coerce sex from followers
2023 Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil: appellate court raises a 'pai de santo's' sentence to 175 years for raping twelve women under cover of terreiro rituals
2023 Bayeux, Paraíba, Brazil
Brazil: Assembly of God pastor convicted of raping three children using his religious standing to win family trust
2023 West Bountiful, UT, USA
Carl Matthew Johnson (LDS bishop, ex-mayor): 9-to-life, child sexual abuse
2023 Viby, Aarhus, Denmark
Denmark: free-church pastor convicted of exploiting a parishioner's trust — court cites his role as her confidant
2023 Salinas, Santa Elena, Ecuador
Ecuador: pastor sentenced to 13 years for abusing a girl from age ten in the pastoral residence
2023 Nahuizalco, Sonsonate, El Salvador
Edwin Analberto Pérez González: twenty-year sentence after church-work grooming
2023 Panchimalco, El Salvador
El Salvador: self-styled pastor convicted of continuous rape of a minor in a household that lodged him on religious trust
2023 Larnaca, Cyprus
Former Bishop of Kiti: first criminal conviction of a senior Cypriot Orthodox cleric for indecent assault
2023 Mindelheim, Bavaria, Germany
Germany: former Marist brother and boarding-school director convicted of abusing pupils, appeal fails
2023 Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Germany: Mainz diocese report finds 401 victims, 181 accused, and a culture that prioritised avoiding scandal
2023 Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
Germany: Osnabrück diocese study finds over 400 victims, contributes to bishop's early resignation
2023 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Germany: self-styled shaman convicted of raping a girl 'treated' under spiritual therapy — final at the Federal Court
2023 Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
Germany: Trier diocese priest convicted of sexually coercing a fourteen-year-old in his rectory
2023 Guatemala City, Guatemala
Guatemala: pastor sentenced to 18 years for sexually assaulting an eleven-year-old in the church
2023 Illinois, USA
Illinois attorney general report: 451 substantiated Catholic clerics and religious brothers, at least 1,997 children
2023 Tohana, Fatehabad, Haryana, India
India: 'Jalebi Baba', temple mahant, convicted of drugging, raping and filming scores of women devotees
2023 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
India: second life sentence for Asaram Bapu for raping a disciple at his Ahmedabad ashram
2023 Ulee Glee, Pidie Jaya, Aceh, Indonesia
Indonesia (Aceh): dayah leader given the sharia maximum for raping seven boy santri
2023 Pandeglang, Banten, Indonesia
Indonesia: 'magical healing' practitioner jailed for eleven years after a year of ritual-pretext rape
2023 Alor, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
Indonesia: candidate pastor sentenced to death for raping nine children
2023 Pandeglang, Banten, Indonesia
Indonesia: kyai sentenced to 11 years for repeated abuse of three santriwati
2023 Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: life sentences for three money-ritual practitioners who poisoned clients who saw through the fraud
2023 Depok, West Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: pesantren teacher sentenced to 18 years for abusing female students
2023 Ramadi, Anbar, Iraq
Iraq: mosque muezzin and Quran instructor given double life sentence for raping boys in his sessions
2023 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom (offences); tried at the Central Criminal Court, Dublin, Ireland
Ireland/Scotland: priest jailed after Court of Appeal overturned a fully suspended sentence for sexually assaulting a vulnerable woman
2023 Fort Kent, Maine, USA
Jehovah's Witness elder Ernest Fyans: gross-sexual-assault conviction for abusing two Kingdom Hall children, affirmed on appeal
2023 Benton County, TN, USA
Joshua Henley: forty-five-year sentence after parish work was used to transport and abuse a teen
2023 Mariakani, Kwale, Kenya
Kenya: pastor convicted in two cases of defiling girls who attended his church
2023 Ngong, Kajiado, Kenya
Kenya: pastor sentenced to 70 years for defiling two child congregants using 'God's oil'
2023 Jahra Governorate, Kuwait
Kuwait: Jahra mosque imam's life sentence for indecent assault on a child affirmed as final
2023 Wappingers Falls, New York, USA
Lama Norlha Rinpoche / Kagyu Thubten Choling: sangha disclosure and federal abuse lawsuit
2023 Talsi, Latvia
Latvia: Baptist minister and Sunday-school director convicted of abusing children in his care
2023 Talsi, Latvia
Latvia: Baptist minister and Sunday-school director convicted of abusing five girls
2023 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Maryland AG: 156 abusers and 600+ child victims in the Archdiocese of Baltimore
2023 Patarrá, San José Province, Costa Rica
Mauricio Víquez: final twenty-year sentence and civil finding against church authorities
2023 Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria
Mazraoua raqi: five-year sentence after fatal beating framed as spirit removal
2023 Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico
Mexico: evangelical pastor sentenced to 53 years for abusing a disciple during spiritual retreats
2023 Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León, Mexico
Mexico: pastor convicted twice — 11 then 37 years — for abusing congregants
2023 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Mexico: pastor sentenced to 59 years for abusing residents of a church-run children's home
2023 Kantunilkín, Lázaro Cárdenas, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Mexico: pastor's acquittal reversed on appeal; 50-year sentence imposed for abusing his hierarchical position over a 12-year-old congregant
2023 Aquixtla, Puebla, Mexico
Mexico: priest sentenced to 21 years for luring and assaulting a seven-year-old at his church
2023 Toledo, OH, USA
Michael Zacharias: life sentence for trafficking victims groomed through priestly authority
2023 Lansing, Michigan, USA
Michigan: priest Joseph 'Jack' Baker sentenced for first-degree criminal sexual conduct
2023 Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Michigan: priest Timothy Crowley sentenced for second-degree criminal sexual conduct
2023 Burton, Michigan, USA
Michigan: priest Vincent DeLorenzo sentenced for abusing a 5-year-old boy
2023 The Hague, Netherlands
Netherlands: Hindu priest convicted of sexually abusing a woman during a healing ritual
2023 Romerike, Akershus, Norway
Norway: congregation leader convicted of six-year sexual exploitation of a member who saw his words as God's word
2023 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Nuevo León: evangelical pastor sentenced to 59 years for sexually abusing girls at a children's home
2023 Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León, Mexico
Nuevo León: religious minister sentenced to 37 years for sexual crimes against congregants
2023 Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Pakistan: Bahawalpur madrassa teacher sentenced to 20 years for assaulting his Quran student
2023 Gualaca, Chiriquí, Panama
Panama: priest convicted of raping a five-year-old parish child, sentenced to 30 years
2023 José Falcón, Presidente Hayes, Paraguay
Paraguay: pastor and his wife convicted of abusing a girl from his church
2023 Arequipa, Peru
Peru: priest sentenced to 13 years for indecent assault of two young congregants
2023 Socorro, Surigao del Norte, Philippines
Philippines: 'Senior Agila' cult leader charged with trafficking and forced child marriage of followers' children
2023 Chodzież, Poland
Poland: former priest's conviction for decade-long abuse of an altar server upheld on appeal
2023 Siedlce, Poland
Poland: priest sentenced to five years for repeatedly forcing a parishioner into sexual acts
2023 Opole Lubelskie, Diocese of Sandomierz, Poland
Poland: priest Tomasz F. finally convicted on appeal for sexually abusing two altar boys
2023 Lisbon, Portugal
Portugal independent commission validates 512 testimonies of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
2023 Omsk, Russia
Russia: pastor convicted of inducing trance states in congregants — and later prosecuted for his beliefs
2023 Salta, Argentina
Salta temple: affirmed trafficking convictions for two spiritual leaders
2023 Ermelo, Mpumalanga, South Africa
South Africa: two life terms for a pastor who raped a fifteen-year-old fellow congregant
2023 Uribe Kosta, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain
Spain: Bilbao diocese priest's conviction for abusing scout monitors at parish summer camps, unappealed and final
2023 Spain (national)
Spain: Ombudsman's national report estimates hundreds of thousands abused in church contexts
2023 Balapitiya, Galle District, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: forest-hermitage chief incumbent convicted of raping a nine-year-old boy resident at the temple
2023 Lausanne, Switzerland
Swiss court — juju sex-trafficking conviction
2023 Zurich, Switzerland
Switzerland: University of Zurich pilot study finds 1,002 cases of abuse in the Catholic Church since 1950
2023 Tangier, Morocco
Tangier raqi: ten-year sentence for assaults committed through claimed ruqya
2023 Kisumu, Kenya
Thomas Scheller: 81-year sentence for defiling boys after posing as a church missionary
2023 Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Tubarão pastor: forty-year sentence for thirteen acts framed as prayer
2023 Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey
Turkey: imam sentenced to twenty-seven years for abusing a twelve-year-old Quran-course student
2023 Ağrı, Turkey
Turkey: Quran-course instructor sentenced to 35 years 5 months for the abuse and confinement of a nine-year-old student in Ağrı
2023 Jinja, Uganda
Uganda: Pentecostal pastor convicted of child ritual sacrifice and human trafficking
2023 Croydon, London, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Croydon Quran teacher convicted of attempted rape and assaults on pupils
2023 Stephenville, Texas, USA
United States: 764's founder sentenced to eighty years — the network built on coerced self-harm
2023 Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
United States: Bentonville youth pastor sentenced to 60 years on thirteen counts
2023 Los Angeles, California, USA
United States: Danny Masterson convicted of raping two fellow Scientology members
2023 Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
United States: Jehovah's Witness elder convicted of assaulting a thirteen-year-old congregant
2023 Newbury, Rowley and Salisbury, Massachusetts, USA
United States: licensed United Methodist youth minister Russell Woodman Davis pleads guilty to raping three boys over nearly two decades
2023 Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
United States: Texas church deacon sentenced to life for continuous sexual abuse of his daughter; other church girls' accusations admitted at trial, affirmed
2022 Rosignol, West Coast Berbice, Guyana
Andrew Hannibal: Guyana Court of Appeal affirms pastor's child-rape conviction
2022 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentina: priest sentenced to 12 years for abusing two nuns under his spiritual direction
2022 Ballarat and regional Victoria, Australia
Australia: Christian Brother Edward Dowlan convicted in three rounds spanning 26 years
2022 Nassau, Bahamas
Bahamas: youth pastor convicted of sexually assaulting a girl taken into his family's care, then jailed again for three more victims
2022 Taraganj, Rangpur, Bangladesh
Bangladesh: mosque imam sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a ten-year-old child during Arabic lessons
2022 Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Benin: evangelical pastor convicted of serially raping congregants and defrauding them in a land-purchase scheme
2022 Americana, São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil: Catholic priest convicted of abusing four former altar boys
2022 Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil: pai de santo convicted of raping twelve terreiro members through simulated spirit incorporation
2022 Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Brazil: pastor sentenced to 40 years for sexual violation by fraud of nine congregants
2022 Santiago, Chile
Chile: the archdiocese official who received abuse complaints convicted of abusing minors himself
2022 Heredia, Costa Rica
Costa Rica: pastor's 34-year sentence for abusing a teenage congregant confirmed through the Supreme Court's criminal cassation chamber
2022 Fort Leonard Wood, MO, USA
David J. McKay: thirty-year sentence for abuse enabled through a military youth ministry
2022 Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
Derrick Miller: eleven-year sentence after abuse of pastoral trust
2022 Mbale, Uganda
Eric Tuininga: ten-year federal sentence for abusing a Ugandan girl in his pastoral care
2022 Atiquizaya, Ahuachapán, El Salvador
Francisco Abigail Zuniga Figueroa: twelve-year sentence for abuse of a child congregant
2022 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Germany: Cologne priest sentenced to twelve years on 110 counts spanning twenty-five years
2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Germany: Munich abuse report finds Joseph Ratzinger 'with high probability' knowingly deployed abusers
2022 Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Germany: Münster diocese report finds 196 accused clergy and 610 victims, faults four successive bishops
2022 Agrinio, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece
Greece: priest who ran a quasi-monastic household of three mothers and eight children convicted of raping and abusing minors over years, sentence upheld on appeal
2022 Woodstock, Georgia, USA
Guidepost investigation finds credible sexual-assault allegation against former SBC president Johnny Hunt
2022 Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Guidepost Solutions finds SBC Executive Committee kept a secret decade-long list of 700+ accused ministers while stonewalling abuse survivors
2022 Bandung, Indonesia
Herry Wirawan: life sentence for abuse of students under pesantren authority
2022 Puerto Lempira, Gracias a Dios, and La Ceiba, Atlántida, Honduras
Honduras: Miskito community pastor convicted of trafficking and aggravated rape of a 15-year-old he took from her family under promise of paid childcare work
2022 Nellikuzhi, Ernakulam, Kerala, India
India: madrasa teacher sentenced to 20 years for sexually assaulting his 11-year-old student
2022 Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, India
India: NHRC issues suo motu notices over continued devadasi dedication despite decades-old bans
2022 Perinthalmanna, Malappuram, Kerala, India
India: Pentecostal pastor convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl after convincing her family she was possessed by evil spirits
2022 Thrissur, Kerala, India
India: priest convicted of raping a nine-year-old preparing for her First Communion at his church
2022 Pullamala, Kollam, Kerala, India
India: seminary rector sentenced to 18 years for sexually abusing four minor seminarians in his care
2022 Ploso, Jombang, East Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: pesantren heir convicted of abusing female students after years shielded by his father's standing
2022 Depok, West Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: Quran teacher sentenced to 19 years for abusing ten pupils
2022 Depok, West Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: self-styled 'Bruder Angelo' sentenced to 14 years for abusing boys at his religious shelter
2022 Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland
Ireland: Spiritan order discloses 233 abuse allegations against 77 priests at Blackrock College and its feeder schools, prompting a state Scoping Inquiry
2022 Bisbee, AZ, USA
LDS 'help line' case (AP/court records): abuse continued 7 yrs; wife convicted
2022 Woodridge, NY, USA
Lev Tahor leaders convicted: kidnapping + child exploitation (forced child marriage)
2022 Malawi
Malawi albino ritual murder: 155-year sentences
2022 Nkungulu, Mangochi, Malawi
Malawi: traditional healer sentenced to ten years for raping and impregnating a client under his care for a mental-health condition
2022 Lassa, Commune IV, Bamako, Mali
Mali: marabout convicted by the Bamako Assize Court of abusing a small child
2022 Thomastown, MS, USA
Marcus Lepard: conviction affirmed after Sunday-school access was used to groom a child
2022 San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico
Mexico: priest sentenced to 60 years for raping a boy in his parish, reported by his own bishop
2022 San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
Mexico: religious preacher convicted of aggravated sexual abuse of two children in Oaxaca's Cuenca region
2022 Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Michigan: priest convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct against a child parishioner
2022 Michigan, USA
Michigan: priest Gary Berthiaume sentenced for criminal sexual conduct and gross indecency
2022 Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA
Michigan: priest Gary Jacobs sentenced for abusing five children in the Upper Peninsula
2022 Rankin County, Mississippi, USA
Mississippi: longtime family pastor given temporary custody of a boy convicted of sexually battering him
2022 Los Angeles, California, USA
Naasón Joaquín García: La Luz del Mundo 'Apostle' convicted in California of sexual abuse of minors
2022 Tauranga, New Zealand
New Zealand: Baptist church youth leader Luke Stainton convicted of a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old member of his youth group
2022 Boaco, Nicaragua
Nicaragua: parish priest sentenced to 30 years for abuse of a girl, amid contested proceedings
2022 Boaco, Nicaragua
Nicaragua: priest José Leonardo Urbina Rodríguez sentenced to 30 years for rape of a 14-year-old
2022 Igando, Lagos State, Nigeria
Nigeria: Islamic cleric sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his five-year-old Arabic school pupil
2022 Kingston, Jamaica
Oraine Ellis: rape conviction upheld after church counselling pretext
2022 Marion County, Oregon, USA
Oregon: home-church pastor's convictions for abusing a congregant he counseled, plus a family victim, affirmed
2022 Juan Díaz, Panama City, Panama
Panama: priest Luis Ruiz Quiroga convicted of aggravated lewd acts against a 17-year-old parishioner
2022 Alto Paraná, Paraguay
Paraguay: evangelical pastor sentenced to 27 years for abusing ten Aché indigenous girls
2022 Asturias, Cebu, Philippines
Philippines: self-styled 'Dios Amahan' healer charged with raping patients held at his temple
2022 Diocese of Drohiczyn, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
Poland: vicar and religion teacher M.Ł. finally convicted for repeated rape of a 14-year-old parishioner
2022 Puebla, Mexico
Puebla: Christian pastor sentenced to nearly 14 years for raping a minor congregant
2022 Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
Quebec: Diocese of Chicoutimi settlement pays $13.75 million to more than 150 victims of a single priest, Paul-André Harvey
2022 Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Spain: ex-priest and seminary trainer's 30-year sentence for abusing seven minor seminarians affirmed by Supreme Court
2022 Kayunga, Uganda
Uganda v. Sentongo: infant murder and aggravated trafficking for ritual exploitation
2022 Mitooma District, Uganda
Uganda: Church of Uganda (Anglican) priest Gordon Muhwezi sentenced to 28 years for defilement
2022 Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
UK: hypnotherapist Ian Roper convicted after commanding a client under trance to undress
2022 Um Baru, North Darfur, Sudan
Um Baru khalwa leader: fifteen-year sentence for abuse of child pupils
2022 Alnwick, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom (tried at Newcastle Crown Court, Tyne and Wear)
United Kingdom: priest jailed for historic sex attacks on a boy in a church vestry and convent
2022 Nottinghamshire / Hove, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: self-styled 'Buddha Maitreya' meditation-centre teacher convicted of indecently assaulting students' daughters
2022 Dublin, California, USA
United States: FCI Dublin federal prison chaplain sentenced for sexually abusing an inmate he was counseling
2022 Crystal Lake, McHenry County, Illinois, USA
United States: two Jehovah's Witness elders convicted for failing to report a child's abuse after headquarters advised against it
2022 Minas, Lavalleja, Uruguay
Uruguay: priest sentenced to eight years for repeated abuse of two sisters
2021 Yaoundé, Cameroon
André Guy Atangana Mbida: life sentence for fatal violence during claimed exorcism
2021 Burradoo (Bowral), New South Wales, Australia
Australia: Missionaries of the Sacred Heart priest jailed for fifteen years for abusing twelve boarding-school students
2021 La Paz, Bolivia
Bolivia: evangelical pastor sentenced to 17 years for raping girls in his congregation
2021 Vegreville, Alberta, Canada
Canada: Alberta pastor sentenced to five years after grooming a congregant he had recruited as co-preacher
2021 Joliette, Quebec, Canada
Canada: Clerics of St Viator priest convicted for abuse at Quebec religious schools
2021 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Canada: head monk of a Winnipeg Lao temple convicted of sexual interference against two girls
2021 Quapaw, OK, USA
Carl Gene Ortner Jr.: conviction after posing as a Native spiritual counselor
2021 Santiago, Chile
Chile: Jesuit-commissioned posthumous inquiry finds prominent priest Renato Poblete sexually abused children and adults for decades
2021 Jinan, Shandong, China
China: false 'living Buddha' sentenced to 25 years for raping sworn disciples
2021 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
China: man posing as a reincarnated lama convicted of raping and defrauding followers
2021 Paris, France
CIASE/Sauvé Report: est. 216,000 abused by French clergy since 1950
2021 Đakovo-Osijek Archdiocese, Croatia
Croatia: Đakovo-Osijek Archdiocese priest's final conviction for indecent acts against an altar server
2021 Accra, Ghana
Daniel Akuffo: fifteen-year sentence for abuse under an exorcism pretext
2021 London, UK
Danyal Hussein: life, murders of Bibaa Henry & Nicole Smallman (blood-pact)
2021 El Terrón, Ngäbe-Buglé, Panama
El Terrón: nine convictions after seven people were killed during a sect’s religious rite
2021 Lyon, France
France: Bernard Preynat's conviction for two decades of scout abuse made final by Cassation
2021 Cullinan, South Africa
Gabisile Shabane: child killed for muti (life terms)
2021 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Germany: Gercke report names 202 accused and finds duty violations across Cologne archdiocese leadership
2021 Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany
Germany: Hildesheim diocese report finds bishop and personnel director transferred a known-accused priest rather than act
2021 Goch, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Germany: self-declared prophet convicted on 132 counts against a girl raised in his sect
2021 Mount Dora, FL, USA
Grave desecration for a Palo Mayombe shrine
2021 Salamina, Greece
Greece: Old Calendar priest convicted of indecent acts against a boy, released pending appeal
2021 Larissa, Greece
Greece: priest sentenced to eight years for abusing an 11-year-old, mother convicted as accomplice
2021 England and Wales, United Kingdom
IICSA: Jehovah's Witness elders discouraged reporting, substituting internal discipline
2021 Satbari, South Delhi, India
India: Delhi temple priest given life imprisonment for raping two young girls
2021 Kottiyoor, Kerala, India
India: priest convicted of raping a sixteen-year-old parishioner; upheld by the Kerala High Court
2021 Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: pastor's 11-year sentence for abusing a congregant he had informally adopted
2021 Ireland (national — 18 mother-and-baby and county-home institutions, 1922-1998)
Ireland: Mother and Baby Homes Commission finds roughly 9,000 child deaths and a coercive, misogynistic institutional culture
2021 Cortona, Arezzo, Italy
Italy: ex-priest 'santone' — sexual-violence conviction against sect followers final at Cassation
2021 Osaka, Japan
Japan: Shinto shrine priest convicted of indecent acts against worshippers during prayer rites
2021 Zlín and Olomouc regions, Czech Republic
Jaroslav Dobeš and Barbora Plášková: seven rape convictions involving an ‘unhooking’ ritual
2021 Karaganda region, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: village mullah's 20-year sentence for raping a thirteen-year-old upheld on appeal
2021 Soyapango, San Salvador, El Salvador
Manuel Quijano Vega: sixteen-year sentence in a child congregant case
2021 Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico: priest sentenced to 65 years for raping a girl during catechism classes
2021 Lansing, Michigan, USA
Michigan: priest Joseph Comperchio pleads guilty to sexual abuse of four minors
2021 Fort Bend County, Texas, USA
Mohamed Omar Ali: 35-year sentence for abusing children he recruited through mosques to teach the Quran
2021 Zmij, Melloussa, Tangier, Morocco
Morocco: village Quran teacher sentenced to 30 years for assaulting six girl pupils
2021 Nebraska, USA
Nebraska attorney general report: 258 documented victims across three Catholic dioceses
2021 Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria
Nigeria: self-styled prophet sentenced to life imprisonment for manslaughter after raping a woman seeking a cure for barrenness
2021 North Dakota, USA
North Dakota BCI clergy-abuse investigation: probable cause identified but surviving cases time-barred
2021 Ruszów, Diocese of Legnica, Poland
Poland: parish priest Piotr M. finally convicted of molesting two intellectually disabled girls he was preparing for First Communion
2021 Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada
Quebec: Bas-Saint-Laurent priest Béatrix Morin sentenced to three years for sexual assaults spanning two decades
2021 Quebec, Canada
Quebec: Brothers of the Sacred Heart reach $60-million court-approved settlement covering 250 victims and 93 abusers across fifty schools
2021 Saraktash, Orenburg Oblast, Russia
Russia: archpriest of a children's religious community sentenced to 21 years
2021 Orenburg Oblast, Russia
Russia: hieromonk sentenced to thirteen years for violent acts against children under fourteen
2021 Amurzet, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia
Russia: village rector sentenced to eighteen years for abusing fifty-three boys over twelve years
2021 Thiénaba, Thiès, Senegal
Senegal: marabout convicted after four talibés died at his unregistered daara
2021 Diourbel, Senegal
Senegal: Quranic teacher convicted for chaining talibé children in his daara
2021 Daegu, South Korea
South Korea: priest sentenced to three years for molesting a nine-year-old parishioner in the rectory
2021 Valladolid, Spain
Spain Supreme Court upholds voodoo-oath trafficking (20 yrs)
2021 Spain (national)
Spain: Jesuit province publishes first order-wide report acknowledging 118 sexual-abuse cases by 96 members since 1927
2021 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain
Spain: Salesian religion teacher sentenced to 32 years; fled before imprisonment
2021 Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain
Spain: Valladolid priest's conviction for grooming and sexually abusing a minor parishioner confirmed on appeal
2021 Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Switzerland: priest convicted on appeal of raping and drugging a person under his spiritual direction
2021 Oecusse, Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste: American ex-priest convicted of abusing girls at the orphanage he ran
2021 Akyazı, Sakarya, Turkey
Turkey: self-styled Uşşaki tarikat leader Fatih Nurullah convicted of child sexual abuse; sentence upheld through Court of Cassation
2021 Northfleet and Birchington, Kent, England, United Kingdom (tried at Maidstone Crown Court)
United Kingdom: vicar jailed for second time for sexually abusing two boys, having been allowed back into ministry after an earlier conviction
2021 Yesera San Sebastián, Tarija, Bolivia
Yesera curandero: twelve-year sentence for assaults committed under cleansing-ritual claims
2020 Berkane and Oujda, Morocco
'Raqi of Berkane': ten-year sentence affirmed for trafficking and sexual violence
2020 Espanola, NM, USA
3HO-commissioned investigation finds sexual and related misconduct by Yogi Bhajan more likely than not
2020 Singapore
Ab Razak Ab Hameed: fifteen-month sentence for abuse during claimed protection and exorcism rituals
2020 Nogoyá, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Argentina: Carmelite prioress convicted of torturing and confining nuns under her authority
2020 Carroll County, Arkansas, USA
Arkansas: church elder and Sunday-school superintendent's civil liability for abusing a 13-year-old parishioner affirmed on appeal
2020 Kuurne, West Flanders, Belgium
Belgium: hypnotherapist convicted a second time of assaulting clients he had placed under hypnosis
2020 Yambol, Stara Zagora and Ruse regions, Bulgaria
Bulgaria: self-styled clairvoyant-healer convicted of defrauding thirteen clients under fear of curses
2020 St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Canada: Archdiocese held vicariously liable for Mount Cashel abuse; final after SCC denies leave
2020 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Canada: Surrey imam convicted of sexual assault; kept serving after charge and conviction
2020 London, UK
Charity Commission for England and Wales statutory inquiry finds Rigpa put students at risk of harm from Sogyal Lakar
2020 Luohe, Henan, China
China: 'Sun-Moon Qigong' master sentenced to nineteen years for raping followers under dual-cultivation doctrine
2020 Miranda, Cauca, Colombia
Colombia: town priest sentenced to 16 years for sexual crimes against a twelve-year-old altar server
2020 Paraíso, Cartago, Costa Rica
Costa Rica: pastor sentenced to eight years for grooming a 14-year-old congregant through church-linked messaging
2020 Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India
Dagri Rinpoche: commissioned investigation finds a pattern of sexual misconduct; barred by FPMT
2020 Glasgow, UK
Derek Lincoln (Children of God): guilty plea, 11.5 years, rape of two children
2020 El Gedaref, Sudan
El Gedaref khalwa leader: conviction for abuse of Quranic-school pupils
2020 Comasagua, La Libertad, El Salvador
El Salvador: pastor sentenced to 20 years for raping a congregant child inside his church
2020 Nausori, Fiji
Fiji: pastor sentenced in absentia to 14 years for raping a fifteen-year-old congregant
2020 Suva, Fiji
Fiji: pastor sentenced to 16 years for raping and assaulting members of his church
2020 Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Germany: independent report finds 175 abuse victims and 81 accused clergy in the Diocese of Aachen
2020 Guatemala City, Guatemala
Guatemala: pastor convicted of producing child sexual-abuse material of a girl who came to him for help
2020 Limpopo, South Africa
Hlungwani ritual murder: 4 relatives, life
2020 England, United Kingdom
IICSA: 390 Church of England clergy and trusted persons convicted of child sexual offences
2020 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
IICSA: Birmingham Archdiocese prioritised reputation and priests over victims for seventy years
2020 Diocese of Limerick, Ireland (location withheld; tried at Limerick Circuit Court)
Ireland: priest jailed 3 years for sexually abusing a boy across several parishes in the Diocese of Limerick
2020 San Salvador, El Salvador
José Eligio Esquina Pérez: twenty-year sentence after a prophetic healing pretext
2020 Kentucky, USA
Kentucky's Covington and Lexington dioceses release independent-review findings naming 90 and 20 accused clergy
2020 Knutby, Uppsala, Sweden
Knutby leadership: three former pastors convicted of assault, coercion and sexual exploitation
2020 Sumter, SC, USA
Larry Durant: affirmed twenty-year sentence for abuse presented as prayer and spiritual protection
2020 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
Malaysia: tahfiz warden's conviction for assaulting an eleven-year-old boarder upheld on appeal
2020 Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico
Mexico: 'Padre Meño' — seminary formator's rape conviction ratified on appeal
2020 Otsego, Michigan, USA
Michigan: priest Brian Stanley sentenced for attempted false imprisonment of a teenage boy
2020 Eagle Lake, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
Mississippi: Methodist pastor convicted of statutory rape of a congregant
2020 Eagle Lake, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
Mississippi: Methodist pastor's convictions for statutory rape and sexual battery of two congregants affirmed
2020 Netherlands (national)
Netherlands: Utrecht University study documents 751 sexual-abuse reports within Jehovah's Witnesses community
2020 Abuja, FCT, Nigeria
Nigeria: apostle's conviction for raping a 14-year-old congregant affirmed by the Court of Appeal
2020 Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan
Nurgazy Bukhbanbayev: eleven-year rape sentence after claimed healing and clairvoyance
2020 Albany, NY, USA
NXIVM/Keith Raniere: 120 years — branding, collateral, sex trafficking
2020 Willemstad, Curaçao
Orlando B. (O.I.B.): fourteen-year sentence upheld for abuse of seven community members
2020 Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Pakistan: Mansehra madrassa cleric sentenced to 16.5 years after DNA-confirmed rape of an 8-year-old
2020 Brussels and Liège, Belgium
Robert Spatz: final five-year suspended sentence for abuse and exploitation within OKC
2020 Satalo, Falealili, Samoa
Samoa: Methodist minister convicted of abusing a girl placed in his household for moral guidance
2020 Tranent and Gartmore, Scotland, United Kingdom
Scotland: De La Salle Brother convicted a third time — decades of abuse at two List D schools
2020 Fort Augustus, Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom
Scotland: Fort Augustus monk convicted after extradition from Australia
2020 Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
Sergio Luis Betancourt Yepes: 16-year sentence for assault during a purported deliverance ritual
2020 Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
South Korea: pastor convicted after fatal 'laying-on-of-hands' exorcism prayer on a fasting congregant
2020 Burlington, VT, USA
St. Joseph's Orphanage task force: abuse documented, murder uncorroborated and charges time-barred
2020 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
UK: Cherubim and Seraphim prophet convicted of raping congregants during 'spiritual bathing' rituals
2020 Thompson Falls, Montana, USA
United States: Montana Supreme Court rules church confidentiality doctrine excused elders from reporting a child-abuse disclosure
2020 Advance and Stoddard County, Missouri, USA
United States: retired priest Frederick Lutz charged with forcible sodomy after Missouri attorney general's clergy probe
2020 Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas, USA
United States: Texas youth group leader convicted of sexual assault and indecency with a congregant, affirmed on appeal
2020 Cần Thơ, Vietnam
Vietnam: pagoda abbot sentenced to six years for raping a fourteen-year-old
2019 Luanda, Angola
Angola: pastor sentenced to twelve years for drugging and raping a fourteen-year-old congregant
2019 Mendoza, Argentina
Argentina: Próvolo Institute priests convicted of abusing deaf child students — 45 and 42 years
2019 Morisset, NSW, Australia
Australia: Brother Bernard McGrath given 62 years across two trials for abusing resident boys
2019 Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Australia: priest Vincent Ryan convicted in four rounds of abusing altar boys
2019 Abadiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Brazil: 'João de Deus' — the medium whose healing consultations produced hundreds of complainants
2019 Santa Catarina, Brazil
Brazil: sentence increased on appeal for a pastor and faith healer who abused a seven-year-old
2019 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Canada: Cloverdale youth pastor convicted of sexual assault, conviction upheld on appeal for abuse of authority
2019 Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia, Canada
Canada: Nova Scotia youth pastor convicted of grooming and sexually assaulting a teenage congregant
2019 Deyang, Sichuan, China
China: fake monk given a suspended death sentence for rapes under exorcism and luck-changing rituals
2019 Denver, Colorado, USA
Colorado: independent review finds abuse reported to police fewer than 10 times in 100 opportunities
2019 Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Costa Rica: pastor convicted on 13 counts of sexual abuse, 66 years nominal
2019 Guápulo, Quito, Ecuador
Ecuador: parish priest sentenced to over nine years for abusing a ten-year-old girl
2019 Suwon, South Korea (offenses committed in Fiji)
Grace Road Church: founding pastor convicted after 'threshing floor' beatings and confinement of followers in Fiji
2019 Naxos, Cyclades, Greece
Greece: archimandrite Theokletos's conviction for repeated sexual harassment of two parish boys affirmed by the Supreme Court
2019 San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras
Honduras: congregation elder convicted on 13 counts of rape of a 12-year-old
2019 Troy, MI, USA
Hurmiz Ishak: Chaldean Catholic subdeacon convicted of assaulting a teen altar boy at his church
2019 Irving, Texas, USA
Imam Zia Ul-Haq Sheikh ordered to pay $2.55 million after grooming a congregant he counseled from her teens
2019 Odisha, India
India: 'Tarini Baba', a tantrik, convicted of abducting, raping and trafficking a girl whose family trusted his rituals
2019 Itarsi, Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, India
India: tantrik 'Baba' and six accomplices convicted of raping a child delivered to him under a religious-ceremony pretext
2019 Dublin, Ireland
Ireland: Transcendental Meditation teacher jailed for indecent assault of a child at the Dublin centre
2019 Gozzano, Novara Province, Italy
Italy: Legionaries of Christ priest Vladimir Reséndiz Gutiérrez convicted in absentia of abusing minor seminarians, affirmed on appeal
2019 Busto Arsizio, Varese, Lombardy, Italy
Italy: nun convicted of sexually abusing a 15-year-old she groomed at her parish oratory
2019 Kingston, Jamaica
Jamaica: pastor sentenced for repeated sexual abuse of a twelve-year-old he impregnated
2019 Abadiânia, Brazil
João Teixeira de Faria ('John of God'): convicted of rapes of spiritual patients; ~600 accusers
2019 Poway and Escondido, California, USA
John Earnest: life plus 30 years for Poway synagogue shooting and mosque arson
2019 Eldoret, Kenya
Kenya: pastor's defilement conviction affirmed by the Court of Appeal
2019 Seoul, South Korea
Lee Jaerock: 16 years for raping congregants who believed him religiously infallible
2019 Marseille, France
Marseille: Supreme Vikings juju-oath trafficking convictions
2019 Vatican City
McCarrick: ex-cardinal found guilty by Vatican canonical process, laicized
2019 Milan, Italy
Milan: voodoo 'mental dependency' slavery conviction
2019 Missouri, USA
Missouri attorney general report: 163 credible instances of Catholic clergy abuse, 12 cases referred for prosecution
2019 Mar del Plata, Argentina
Monte Sión: affirmed convictions for trafficking, servitude and sexual abuse
2019 Surat, Gujarat, India
Narayan Sai: life sentences after convictions involving a devotee and ashram administrator
2019 Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
New Jersey: priest Thomas Ganley — first conviction from the state Clergy Abuse Task Force
2019 New Jersey, USA
New Jersey's five Catholic dioceses jointly name 188 priests credibly accused of child sexual abuse
2019 West Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand: gurdwara priest convicted of sexual offending against two children at the temple
2019 Kontagora, Niger State, Nigeria
Nigeria: Islamic school teacher sentenced to seven years for the anal rape of thirty-five pupils
2019 Buvussi, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea: Assemblies of God pastor sentenced for abusing a girl in his household care
2019 Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, USA
Pennsylvania: priest David Poulson sentenced — second conviction from the 2018 grand jury report
2019 Planalto Norte, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Planalto Norte spiritual leader: appellate court affirms a ten-year sexual-abuse sentence
2019 Tomar, Santarém, Portugal
Portugal: former Adventist pastor convicted on 24 counts of child sexual abuse
2019 Tomar, Santarém, Portugal
Portugal: former Adventist pastor convicted on 24 counts of sexual abuse
2019 Tigard, Oregon, USA
Quran instructor Muhammad Laftah Hasan: guilty plea for sexually abusing two girl students
2019 New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Rabbi Daniel Greer convicted of abusing a student at the yeshiva he founded
2019 Moscow Oblast, Russia
Russia: 'Kaula Dharma' leader sentenced to 16 years for raping and torturing followers' children
2019 Lipin Bor, Vologda Oblast, Russia
Russia: rector convicted after eighteen months of indecent acts against a twelve-year-old parishioner
2019 Halifax, Canada
Shambhala-commissioned investigation finds two sexual-misconduct allegations against Sakyong Mipham credible
2019 Singapore
Singapore: accredited religious teacher jailed for molesting a student under a black-magic 'cure'
2019 Feni, Bangladesh
SM Siraj Ud Daula and co-defendants convicted at trial of retaliatory murder after a student's harassment complaint
2019 Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands: Australian mission director and pastor jailed for indecently assaulting girls supported by his mission
2019 Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa
South Africa: 'Electus per Deus' leader given thirteen life sentences over eleven killings
2019 Alexandria, VA, USA
Terry Millender: eight-year sentence for selling a fraudulent investment as a Christian mission
2019 Ban Phaeo, Samut Sakhon, Thailand
Thailand: abbot of Wat Pa Suwatthanaram charged with abusing ten novices and a temple boy
2019 Regueb, Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia
Tunisia: unlicensed Quranic boarding-school director convicted after raid revealed abuse of resident boys
2019 Newham, London, United Kingdom (tried at Snaresbrook Crown Court)
United Kingdom: imam appointed to tutor two sisters in the Quran jailed 8 years for sexually abusing them
2019 Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
United States: 'Apostle' pastor convicted of sexually abusing three girls in his congregation
2019 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
United States: Air Force chaplain and priest convicted of sexually abusing an altar boy at Kirtland Air Force Base
2019 Georgia, USA
United States: minister convicted of molesting two young girls from congregant families at his church
2019 St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
United States: priest Fred Lenczycki sentenced for sodomy of two boys in a north St. Louis County parish
2019 Virginia, USA
United States: Virginia youth pastor pleads guilty to indecent acts with a teenager from his church
2019 Covington, Virginia, USA
Virginia: COGIC deacon convicted of molesting children from his church's youth department; Supreme Court revives negligence suit against the denomination
2019 Jackson County, West Virginia, USA
West Virginia: pastor's conviction for soliciting and grooming a 15-year-old congregant affirmed
2018 Moscow, Russia
Andrei Popov ('God Kuzya'): convictions for religious-group abuse and fraud
2018 Jodhpur, India
Asaram Bapu: life imprisonment, rape of a minor under exorcism pretext
2018 Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia
Australia: Marist Brother and school principal 'Brother Christopher' Wade convicted of indecent assault on a pupil; conviction upheld on appeal
2018 Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Brasília religious leader: conviction affirmed for sex obtained through a curse-and-anointing claim
2018 Franco da Rocha, São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil: labor prosecutors sue a Word of Faith Fellowship-linked church for forced labor of congregants
2018 Sobral, Ceará, Brazil
Brazil: Presbyterian pastor convicted of raping five children under ten in his congregation
2018 Bronx, New York, USA
Bronx: man charged with drugging and sexually abusing clients during purported Santería 'healing' rituals
2018 London, Ontario, Canada
Canada: Anglican rector convicted of abusing First Nations altar boys in Ontario; second conviction for Yukon victims followed
2018 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Canada: Orthodox day-school teacher convicted of decades-spanning abuse of students
2018 Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Daniel Stephen Johnson: life sentence for abuse of children at the Cambodian orphanage he ran as a Christian missionary
2018 Silkeborg, Denmark
Denmark: free-church pastor convicted of abusing eight congregants, deported
2018 Tømmerup, Kalundborg, Denmark
Denmark: parish priest's ten-year sentence for decade-long abuse of eight parish youths upheld
2018 Guayaquil, Ecuador
Ecuador: parish priest convicted of abusing five girls from his congregation
2018 Batang Kali, Selangor, Malaysia
EE Yong Nan: Court of Appeal upholds 12-year sentence for rape during a purported cleansing ritual
2018 Soyapango, San Salvador, El Salvador
El Salvador: pastor sentenced to 20 years for the continued rape of a thirteen-year-old from his church
2018 Spain
Europol op: 89 arrests, Nigerian juju trafficking ring
2018 Alwar, Rajasthan, India
Falahari Baba: life sentence for rape of a disciple in his ashram
2018 La Boulaye, Saône-et-Loire, France
France: lama at the Temple of a Thousand Buddhas sentenced to 12 years for raping disciples and their children
2018 Puerto Barrios, Izabal, Guatemala
Guatemala: priest Ignacio López sentenced to 16 years for rape of a 14-year-old
2018 Ampleforth and Downside, England, United Kingdom
IICSA: ten men convicted or cautioned for abuse at two Benedictine schools
2018 Bidadi, Ramanagara district, Karnataka, India
India: godman Nithyananda formally charged with raping a disciple inside his ashram; now a fugitive
2018 Mataram, Indonesia
Indonesia: celebrity spiritual guru 'Aa Gatot' convicted of raping an underage follower in padepokan 'rituals'
2018 Safed, Israel
Israel: yeshiva head sentenced to seven and a half years for assaulting women who sought his counsel
2018 Moncalieri, Turin, Italy
Italy: 'santone' convicted of abusing followers through coerced 'energy exchange' rituals
2018 Birmingham, UK
Iyamu — 1st Modern Slavery Act cross-border juju conviction
2018 Freeport, ME, USA
James Talbot: guilty pleas for abuse during religious instruction at a Maine church
2018 Brockton, MA, USA
MA child-torture cases charged as 'voodoo ritual'
2018 Brooklyn Center, MN, USA
Meally Morris Freeman: two convictions after a purported deliverance session
2018 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Melvin David Quiroz and Ana Rosmery Brito: convictions for demon-deliverance abuse scheme
2018 Germany
MHG Study: commissioned review identifies 1,670 accused clerics and 3,677 affected minors
2018 Detroit, Michigan, USA
Michigan: priest Patrick Casey convicted of aggravated assault
2018 Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria
Nigeria: herbalist sentenced to fourteen years for sexually assaulting a ten-year-old brought to him for epilepsy treatment
2018 Ramanagara, India
Nithyananda: rape charges framed; non-bailable warrant; fled India 2019 (never tried)
2018 Benin City, Nigeria
Oba of Benin revokes juju trafficking oaths
2018 Harrisburg, PA, USA
PA grand jury: 301 priests, 1,000+ child victims documented ('weaponized' faith)
2018 Paris, France
Paris trial — voodoo-oath sex-trafficking network
2018 Pennsylvania, USA
Pennsylvania Grand Jury: 301 'predator priests', 1,000+ child victims across six dioceses
2018 Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Pennsylvania: priest John Sweeney — first conviction from the 2018 grand jury report
2018 London, UK
Rigpa-commissioned investigation upholds serious allegations against Sogyal Rinpoche
2018 Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia
Russia: Orthodox gymnasium director convicted on forty-six proven episodes against his pupils
2018 Priozersk, Leningrad Oblast, Russia
Russia: priest convicted of abusing children at Orthodox camps — appeal denied
2018 Leningrad Region, Russia
Russian Orthodox priest Gleb Grozovsky convicted of abusing girls at a church holiday camp
2018 Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Scotland: priest convicted of abusing three children and a trainee priest
2018 Na Duang, Loei, Thailand
Thailand: former abbot convicted of raping a woman lured with an 'exorcism' ritual
2018 Hazro, Diyarbakır, Turkey
Turkey: district mufti convicted after using marriage promises and blackmail to sexually abuse a Quran-course supervisor
2018 Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Jesus Army member convicted of indecent assault and buggery of a boy in the community during the 1990s
2018 Sanpete County, Utah, USA
United States: doomsday-splinter leaders imprisoned for 'marrying' each other's small daughters
2018 United States (national)
United States: Jesuits West and Jesuits Midwest provinces each publish named lists of members with established sexual-abuse allegations
2018 Ruffin, North Carolina, USA
United States: North Carolina pastor and school principal sentenced for abuse of a student who was also a congregant
2018 Rohini, Delhi, India
Virendra Dev Dixit: CBI cases and Delhi High Court oversight over an ashram after girls were rescued; founder a fugitive
2018 Si Sa Ket, Thailand
Wirapol Sukphol (ex-monk): 16 years, rape of a 13-year-old
2018 Victoria Falls, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Enlightened Christian Gathering pastor convicted of raping a 12-year-old congregant during a house prayer visit
2017 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Australia: Gerald Ridsdale — serial abuse convictions across seven court rounds
2017 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Australia: LDS youth leader sentenced to ten years for abusing eleven boys over twenty-five years
2017 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Brazil: Catholic group founder 'Papi' convicted of raping young men he recruited through his community
2017 Bruges, Belgium
Bruges: Nigerian voodoo-trafficking ring convicted
2017 Shediac and Collette, New Brunswick, Canada
Canada: former Moncton priest sentenced to four years after admitting to molesting nine boys
2017 Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Canada: mosque director convicted of assaulting a congregant during a 'curse removal'
2017 Suva, Fiji
Fiji: self-styled 'last prophet' convicted on all ten counts against four women of his prayer group
2017 Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Germany: Essen diocese's legal review of personnel files names 62 accused priests, deacons and staff
2017 Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
Germany: independent investigator finds up to 700 abuse victims among Regensburg Domspatzen choirboys
2017 Gualaceo, Azuay, Ecuador
Gualaceo curandero: twenty-nine-year sentence after a false healing claim and death threat
2017 Sirsa, India
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh: 20 years, rape of two followers (Dera Sacha Sauda)
2017 Comayagüela, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Honduras: pastor sentenced to 136 years for raping four children of his congregation
2017 Sirsa, Haryana, India (trial: Panchkula, Haryana)
India: Dera Sacha Sauda chief convicted of raping two disciples inside the sect he headed
2017 Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: Dimas Kanjeng convicted of murdering followers who threatened to expose his money-multiplying 'powers'
2017 Kingston, Jamaica
Jamaica: pastor sentenced to 20 years for raping a thirteen-year-old baptised member of his church
2017 Suzak district, Jalal-Abad region, Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan: village mosque imam's final conviction for sexual assault of a ten-year-old boy, 21-year sentence
2017 York and Pocklington, England, United Kingdom
Methodist minister John Price convicted of abusing boys from his congregations under a 'hypnosis' ritual
2017 Villa Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico
Mexico: Oaxaca priest's sentence — an early Mexican clergy conviction — confirmed on appeal
2017 Mangrove Mountain, NSW, Australia
Royal Commission Case Study 21: Satyananda Yoga Ashram — guru-disciple abuse at Mangrove Mountain
2017 Melbourne and Sydney, Australia
Royal Commission Case Study 22: reporting suppressed at Yeshivah institutions
2017 Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Royal Commission Case Study 42: Anglican Diocese of Newcastle's 'do nothing' response
2017 Canberra, Australia (national)
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: final report
2017 South Africa
South Africa: CRL Rights Commission finds systemic commercialisation and abuse of belief in the unregulated prophetic-church sector
2017 Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway
Tysfjord abuse report: Nordland police document 151 assaults in a Sami/Laestadian community, silenced by religious forgiveness
2017 Ealing, London, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: former Abbot of Ealing Abbey convicted after fleeing abroad for five years to avoid prosecution
2017 Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Jesus Army 'transient member' convicted of indecent assault and gross indecency against boys sharing a communal dormitory
2017 Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, USA
United States (2017): youth pastor's rape convictions for two teenage girls affirmed on direct appeal and again on post-conviction review
2017 Mapleton, Utah, USA
United States: Mapleton bishop imprisoned for abusing two teenage boys of his congregation
2017 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Unnamed imam: three-month sentence for assault during Quranic healing
2016 Highton, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Australia: Christian Brother William Houston convicted twice of abusing boys in his care at St Augustine's Orphanage
2016 Benin
Benin 'voodoo convents' — child servitude for ritual debt
2016 Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bikram Choudhury: civil jury — 'malice, oppression and fraud'; $7.3M; left US
2016 Varna, Bulgaria
Bulgaria: Orthodox priest convicted of indecent acts against a thirteen-year-old boy
2016 Balama, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
Cabo Delgado albino ritual murder: two men sentenced to 35 years on a ritual specialist's instructions
2016 Lagos, Nigeria
Chukwuemeka Ezeugo ('Rev. King'): murder and attempted-murder convictions affirmed
2016 Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Germany: Jehovah's Witness congregant convicted of abusing a boy during Kingdom Hall ceremonies, Greifswald
2016 Klosterzimmern, Bavaria, Germany
Germany: Twelve Tribes teachers convicted for doctrine-mandated rod beatings of sect children
2016 Kópavogur, Iceland
Iceland: Smárakirkja youth leader convicted of sexually abusing a 15-year-old member he had groomed
2016 Elgin, Illinois, USA
Imam Mohammed Abdullah Saleem: guilty plea for abusing a student and an employee at the Islamic school he founded
2016 Puthenvelikkara, Ernakulam, Kerala, India
India: parish priest convicted of raping a minor parishioner who came to him for confession
2016 Peechi, Thrissur, Kerala, India
India: Salvation Army pastor convicted twice — 40 years, then life until death
2016 Suva, Fiji
Iowane Vakadranu: Back to Eden pastor convicted after using divine-command claims to sexually exploit followers
2016 Tel Aviv, Israel
Israel: Belz-affiliated cheder teacher convicted on twenty-three counts for sadistic abuse of young boys at Talmud Torah Machzikei Hadass
2016 Jerusalem, Israel
Israel: Shuvu Bonim leader Eliezer Berland — convictions for indecent acts and for selling 'blessings' to the sick
2016 Franks Eddy, Cayo District, Belize
Julio Cesar Garcia: Belize Court of Appeal affirms church-member abuse conviction
2016 Laurel, DE, USA
Laurel congregation: Delaware court rejects automatic clergy-privilege defense to child-abuse reporting action
2016 Oud-Beijerland, Netherlands
Netherlands: Hersteld Hervormde Kerk predikant Peter K. convicted of abusing a congregant, 2009-2012
2016 Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Pennsylvania: founder and lead pastor convicted of indecent assault after using an offer to pray for an employee as pretext for assault
2016 Sydney, Australia
Royal Commission Case Study 29: 1,006 alleged JW perpetrators, none reported to police
2016 Australia (national)
Royal Commission Case Study 29: 1,006 alleged perpetrators in internal files, none reported by the organisation
2016 Box Hill, Bayswater, Victoria and Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
Royal Commission Case Study 33: Salvation Army children's homes, Southern Territory
2016 São Paulo State, Brazil
São Paulo pastor: unanimous conviction for assault presented as purification
2016 Falkland, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Scotland: Christian Brothers headmaster and teacher convicted of physically and sexually abusing boys at St Ninian's, Falkland
2016 Pločica, Kovin, Serbia
Serbia: village priest's conviction for abusing a choir girl upheld on appeal
2016 Sása, Slovakia
Slovakia: first priest to receive an unconditional sentence for abusing an altar server
2016 oThongathi (Tongaat), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
South Africa: Hindu priest from Kerala sentenced to an effective life term for raping a 12-year-old girl he claimed to be healing
2016 Chatsworth (Havenside), Durban, South Africa
South Africa: Hindu priest jailed for raping a child devotee brought to him to be blessed
2016 Gwangju, Buk-gu, South Korea
South Korea: pastor convicted after fatally pressing on a congregant's abdomen during a healing prayer for schizophrenia
2016 Leioa, Vizcaya, Spain
Spain: Opus Dei teacher's abuse conviction stands after Supreme Court reduces sentence
2016 Vigo area, Galicia, Spain
Spain: prominent Galician exorcist priest's conviction for sexually assaulting a parishioner in the sacristy is confirmed on appeal
2016 Changhua, Taiwan
Taiwan: cultivation-group leader's thirteen-year sentence for a member's son beaten to death in confinement
2016 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Cardiff imam jailed for 13 years for abusing girls in his religious classes
2016 Belgravia, London, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Church of England youth worker convicted of raping congregants he groomed
2016 Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: elderly Jesus Army member jailed for sexually abusing two boys at sect communal houses
2016 Coulsdon, London Borough of Croydon, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: pastor who ran a church as a 'cult' jailed for sexually assaulting women under a doctrine of 'Christian Domestic Discipline'
2016 Newport, Arkansas, USA
United States: Arkansas state prison chaplain sentenced for sexually assaulting inmate under guise of counseling and ministry
2016 Pine County, Minnesota, USA
United States: Victor Barnard convicted for abusing girls ceremonially surrendered to him as 'Maidens'
2016 New Hartford, New York, USA
United States: Word of Life pastor and members convicted after a teenager was beaten to death in an all-night 'counseling session'
2016 Siem Reap, Cambodia
Vong Chet: former pagoda chief sentenced for sexual abuse of novice monks in residential care
2015 Hamilton and Pagewood, New South Wales, Australia
Australia: Marist Brother Francis Cable ('Brother Romuald') convicted across two proceedings of sexually abusing children at Hamilton and Pagewood
2015 Chichester and Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Bishop Peter Ball: convicted of abusing young men who sought spiritual direction
2015 Bouya Omar, El Kelâa des Sraghna, Morocco
Bouya Omar: official findings end shrine-based confinement of people with mental illness
2015 Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada
Canada: defrocked Edmundston priest sentenced to seven and a half years for abusing altar boys
2015 Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
China: 'Huazang Dharma' leader given life imprisonment — a conviction rights groups call retaliation
2015 Liborina, Antioquia, Colombia
Colombia: Antioquia parish priest convicted of abusing two children under cover of confession, thirteen years
2015 Fremont, California, USA
Conti v. Watchtower: California appellate court affirms Jehovah's Witnesses' civil liability for failing to supervise a known abuser during church 'field service'
2015 Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Germany: priest's six-year sentence for abusing two brothers confirmed by the Federal Court
2015 Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany
Germany: self-styled 'depth-psychological hypnoanalyst' convicted of abusing two clients under hypnosis
2015 Tetrakomo, Arta, Greece
Greece: village priest convicted of raping a girl from age seven over seven years, sentence confirmed on appeal
2015 Bangor, Maine, USA
Greek Orthodox priest Adam Metropoulos convicted of abusing an altar server
2015 Honduras
Honduras: US missionary priest convicted of abusing boys at shelters his ministry funded
2015 Caguas, Puerto Rico
Israel Berríos-Berríos: eleven-year federal sentence after altar-service access
2015 Osh, Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan: madrasa teacher sentenced to 15 years for raping a nine-year-old pupil
2015 United Kingdom
Methodist Church in Britain's Past Cases Review finds 1,885 abuse cases 1950-2014, roughly a quarter naming ministers or church employees
2015 Washington, D.C., USA
Rabbi Barry Freundel: 52 voyeurism counts for recording women at the mikveh he supervised
2015 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Royal Commission Case Study 16: the Melbourne Response found insufficiently independent
2015 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Royal Commission Case Study 28: 'catastrophic failure' of church leadership in Ballarat
2015 Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom (tried at Glasgow Sheriff Court)
Scotland: priest convicted of indecently assaulting boys training for the priesthood at Blairs College seminary
2015 Jangseong, South Jeolla, South Korea
South Korea: abbot convicted of raping the girl he raised at his temple as a child monastic
2015 Loudon County, Tennessee, USA
State v. Crank: Tennessee Supreme Court affirms child-neglect conviction after cancer was treated with prayer
2015 Oregon City, Oregon, USA
State v. Hickman: Oregon Supreme Court affirms manslaughter convictions after Followers of Christ parents withheld care from a newborn
2015 Uppsala, Sweden
Sweden: priest convicted of child rape of his own confirmand
2015 Thailand
Thailand: Buddhist monk convicted as ringleader of a temple-based trafficking ring targeting novice boys
2015 Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Bradford imam jailed 13 years for 1990s sexual offences committed while serving at the mosque
2015 Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Charedi community figure convicted; sentence appeal dismissed
2015 Westminster and Ampleforth, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: choir-school housemaster convicted on all fifteen counts against ten boys
2015 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: former Jehovah's Witness elder jailed for indecently assaulting a schoolgirl in his congregation
2015 Lackawaxen Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania, USA
United States: Chabad rabbi Aryeh Goodman sentenced for indecently assaulting a 12-year-old boy at a Chabad summer camp
2015 Provo and Davis County, Utah, USA
United States: Especially For Youth counselor Keldon Cook imprisoned for grooming a camper he told the abuse was acceptable
2015 Collegeville, Minnesota, USA
United States: St John's Abbey settlement forces release of internal files naming 19 Benedictine monks credibly accused of child sexual abuse
2015 Georgia, USA
Wilson v. State: felony-murder conviction affirmed after a toddler believed 'demon-possessed' was starved and beaten during exorcism plans
2015 Mansa, Luapula, Zambia
Zambia: pastor jailed 20 years for assaulting a girl brought to him for prayer
2014 Albury, Wagga Wagga and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Australia: Christian Brother Desmond Richards ('Brother Neil') convicted across multiple rounds of abusing students at NSW Christian Brothers schools; conviction upheld on appeal
2014 Sunbury, Victoria, Australia
Australia: Salesian priest Frank Klep sentenced to a decade for a 'campaign of abuse' at Rupertswood
2014 Jadranska Lesnica, Serbia
Branislav Peranovic: twenty-year murder sentence at an Orthodox addiction center
2014 Southern Santa Catarina, Brazil
Brazil: priest's sentence raised to twenty-six years for abuse during pre-communion confession
2014 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Canada: Orthodox Church in America archbishop convicted of sexually assaulting a boy sent to live and serve at his church
2014 Santiago, Chile
Chile: Legionary of Christ school chaplain John O'Reilly convicted of abusing a student
2014 Martinique
Emmanuel Gordon: eight-year sentence in absentia for abuse during spiritual education
2014 Balamban, Cebu, Philippines
Philippines: 'Dios Amahan' cult leader charged with murder and trafficking of a follower's child
2014 Santa Isabel and Ponce, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: pastor sentenced to 40 years federal for abusing church-vehicle-washing pretext to assault minor congregants
2014 Philadelphia, PA, USA
Schaible: 3rd-degree murder, second child dead of untreated pneumonia
2014 Taichung, Taiwan
Taiwan: temple founder convicted of coercing disciples into sex under a 'dual cultivation' doctrine
2014 Raleigh, NC, USA
Thomas L. Kimmel: convictions for a Ponzi scheme marketed through Biblical-finance seminars
2014 Preston Down, Paignton, Devon, England, United Kingdom
UK Charity Commission finds Exclusive Brethren separation doctrine causes detriment to withdrawn members and children, conditions charitable registration on doctrinal change
2014 Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom (tried at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court)
United Kingdom: Jehovah's Witness elder jailed 14 years for raping and indecently assaulting women in his congregation
2014 Winterset, Madison County, Iowa, USA
United States (2014): church youth coordinator's conviction for assaulting a sixteen-year-old group member affirmed
2014 Mission, Texas, USA
United States v. Maya: Santería ritual blessing of a marijuana load documented in a federal trafficking conviction
2014 Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, USA
United States: Camp Dora Golding counselor Chisdai Ben-Porath pleads guilty to molesting a camper
2014 San Diego, California, USA
United States: default judgment against the Watchtower Society for recommending a known child molester as a boy's Bible-study mentor
2014 Granjeno, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
United States: Diocese of Brownsville deacon Ronaldo Chavez pleads guilty to molesting an altar boy
2014 Waynesville, North Carolina, USA
United States: former Cove Creek Baptist Church youth pastor convicted of a lewd act against a girl from his congregation
2014 Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
Virgilio Sierra Avendaño: final 24-year sentence for abusing a congregant's child
2014 Zhaoyuan, Shandong, China
Zhaoyuan 'Almighty God' group: murder convictions after defendants called a stranger a demon
2014 Harare, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: church founder convicted of raping four congregants he threatened with evil spells
2013 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Asadullo Ibrohimov: seven-year sentence for sexual misconduct during purported infertility treatment
2013 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Australia: Yeshivah College staff figure David Cyprys convicted of rape of a student; appeal rejected
2013 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Australia: Yeshivah College teacher David Kramer convicted of assaulting students
2013 Kremsmünster, Upper Austria, Austria
Austria: Benedictine boarding-school director convicted of abusing 24 students
2013 São João de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brazil: Assembleia de Deus dos Últimos Dias founding pastor convicted of raping a congregant; Supreme Federal Court cites his spiritual authority as the coercion
2013 Stickney Township, Illinois, USA
Camnong Boa-Ubol: Thai Buddhist monk's guilty plea and 15-year sentence for assaulting a girl at Wat Dhammaram
2013 Sudbury / Windsor / Saskatoon, Canada
Canada: Basilian priest-teacher convicted after admitting abuse of dozens of students
2013 Colonia Dignidad near Parral, Chile
Colonia Dignidad: final convictions and official findings on systematic child abuse
2013 Marathon County, WI, USA
Dale and Leilani Neumann: reckless-homicide convictions after prayer replaced medical care
2013 Manchester, England, UK
England: Jehovah's Witness congregation trustee convicted of indecent assault; Charity Commission finds victims were made to face him in a judicial hearing
2013 Monflanquin, Lot-et-Garonne, France
France: Thierry Tilly's decade-long occult domination of the Védrines family — conviction final
2013 West Dundee, Kane County, Illinois, USA
Illinois: youth ministries director pleads guilty to grooming and sexually abusing a teenage member of his church youth group
2013 Venice, Florida, USA
Illinois/Florida: Carmelite priest William Wert convicted and sentenced to life after a second child-victim disclosure
2013 Delhi, India
India: temple priest's conviction for raping an intellectually disabled devotee upheld — 'satanic and unholy'
2013 Madiun, East Java, Indonesia
Indonesia: life imprisonment for poisoning a family of three whose money ritual had failed
2013 Ireland (national — ten Magdalene Laundries operated by four religious orders)
Ireland: McAleese Report finds State complicity in the Magdalene Laundry system; no individual nun ever criminally prosecuted
2013 Sensembra, Morazán, El Salvador
Israel Antonio Alvarez Bonilla: twenty-seven-year sentence for rape and harassment through pastoral authority
2013 Jerusalem, Israel
Israel: Moti Elon — leading religious-Zionist rabbi convicted of indecent acts against a minor student
2013 Novosibirsk, Russia
Konstantin Rudnev: 11-year sentence for crimes committed through the Ashram Shambala group
2013 Menifee, California, USA
LDS bishop Todd Michael Edwards: guilty plea for molesting teenage girls in his congregation
2013 Nokia, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Markku Koivisto (Nokia Mission): conviction for abuse framed as spiritual 'healing'
2013 Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Meir Dascalowitz: guilty plea for molesting a disabled teenage boy in a Satmar mikveh
2013 Stockport, England, UK
Michael Ireland: 16-year sentence for assaults disguised as Reiki and spiritual healing
2013 New York, NY, USA
NYC psychic curse-removal fraud (5-15 yrs)
2013 Los Angeles and Mount Baldy, California, USA
Rinzai-ji investigation finds Zen master Joshu Sasaki coerced students over four decades
2013 San Lucas Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
San Lucas Catholic school: director convicted of concealing a volunteer's abuse
2013 Kochi, Kerala, India
Santhosh Madhavan / Swami Amritha Chaithanya: Kerala High Court affirms one rape conviction
2013 Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden
Sweden: Pentecostal youth-ministry leader convicted of raping a 14-year-old congregation member
2013 Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA
United States: 35-to-75 years for a church-endorsed babysitter, and the civil case the church settled mid-trial
2013 Hammond, Indiana, USA
United States: Jack Schaap, megachurch IFB pastor, sentenced federally for abusing a girl he was 'counseling'
2013 Lakewood, New Jersey, USA
United States: Lakewood yeshiva teacher's 15-year sentence — and the communal campaign against his victim's family
2013 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
United States: LDS church leader guilty of molesting a boy over five years, using church roles to access the family
2013 Gilmer, Texas, USA
United States: pastor given six consecutive life sentences for a decade of abuse of a choir girl
2013 Amazon region, Brazil
Warren Scott Kennell: 58-year federal sentence for abusing Amazon indigenous children while planting a church
2013 Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Johane Masowe sect leader convicted of statutory rape of a minor congregant lured to pick prayer pebbles
2012 Colliguay, Quilpué, Chile
Antares de la Luz: convictions after an apocalyptic group’s ritual killing of an infant
2012 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Belgium: Salesian priest Luk Delft convicted of child abuse and child pornography, later transferred by the order to work with children in Central Africa despite the ban
2012 Northwestern Ontario / Manitoba, Canada
Canada: Anglican bush-pilot priest convicted of 75 sex crimes against First Nations boys
2012 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Canada: former Yarmouth priest sentenced to five and a half years after admitting to molesting six children
2012 Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi Moshe Keller: guilty plea for endangering the welfare of a child after abusing a teenage boy
2012 Reykjavík, Iceland
Iceland: Catholic Church commission confirms abuse at Landakotsskóli school and Riftún camp
2012 London, UK
Kristy Bamu: kindoki 'deliverance' murder convictions (30/25-yr minimums)
2012 Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Lawson v. State: murder conviction affirmed after a child died during a forced exorcism ritual
2012 Nacozari de García, Sonora, Mexico
Nacozari family killings: convictions after sacrifices attributed to Santa Muerte devotion
2012 Birmingham, UK
Naila Mumtaz: four family members convicted of murder in jinn-'exorcism' smothering
2012 Brooklyn, NY, USA
Nechemya Weberman: 103 years, 59 counts of sexual abuse (Satmar counselor)
2012 Canterbury, UK
Osolase — juju sex-trafficking conviction (20 yrs)
2012 Pella, IA, USA
Patrick Edouard: five convictions for sexual exploitation through pastoral counseling
2012 Madre de Dios, Peru
Peru: shaman convicted of homicide after concealing an 18-year-old's death at his ayahuasca retreat
2012 Kingston, ON, Canada
Shafia murders: three convicted of killing four family members ('twisted notion of honour' — the judge)
2012 Downside, Somerset, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Downside housemaster convicted; school had kept him teaching after 1987 disclosure
2012 Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
United States: Antiochian Orthodox priest convicted of assaulting a parishioner during years of 'spiritual father' counseling sessions
2012 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
United States: Edward Avery's guilty plea — the one Philadelphia conviction that stands
2012 West Valley City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
United States: LDS branch president convicted of sexually battering a teenage congregant summoned to his office
2012 Brooklyn, New York, USA
United States: yeshiva rebbe's misdemeanor plea — and the $2.1 million settlement his yeshiva paid
2012 Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
USA: unlicensed Satmar 'religious therapist' convicted of sexually abusing a girl sent to him for religious counseling
2011 Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Australia: Anglican lay figure James Michael Brown convicted on 27 counts against 19 boys
2011 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Australia: Christian Brother Robert Best convicted of abusing boys at three schools
2011 Durham-Sud, Quebec, Canada
Canada: New Age retreat leader convicted of criminal negligence causing death after a hyperthermia ritual
2011 Reykjavík, Iceland
Church of Iceland inquiry criticizes institutional response to allegations against former bishop Ólafur Skúlason
2011 Kidwelly, Wales
Colin Batley occult sex cult: indeterminate sentence, min 11 years
2011 Bogotá, Colombia, and Trujillo, Peru
Colombia: Anglican missionary convicted of abusing a 9-year-old boy fled to Peru and continued serving as a deacon for 14 years before his sentence lapsed unserved
2011 Utrecht, Netherlands
Deetman Commission documents authority-linked abuse and institutional failures in the Dutch Catholic Church
2011 Nassau, Bahamas
Earl Randolph Fraser: conviction for abuse of a child entrusted for counselling
2011 Achiase, Eastern Region, Ghana
Ghana: prayer-camp pastor jailed twenty years for raping five sisters, one drugged unconscious
2011 Manitoba Colony, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia
Manitoba Colony: convictions after systematic drug-facilitated rapes in an isolated Mennonite community
2011 Little Meadows, PA, USA
Philip Ferrara: Melkite Greek Catholic priest convicted after using a retreat house to assault a boy
2011 Driftwood, TX, USA
Prakashanand Saraswati: 20 counts child molestation; fled, fugitive
2011 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Scotland: Sikh priest convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in his temple room in Glasgow
2011 Brezno and Remšnik parishes, Slovenia
Slovenia: priest's final conviction for groping two girls during confirmation preparation
2011 Michigan, USA
United States: 2×2 worker convicted twice for abusing a host family's daughter
2011 Eldorado, Texas, USA
United States: FLDS bishop convicted of solemnizing the 'celestial marriage' of a twelve-year-old
2011 Union, South Carolina, USA
United States: youth pastor's conviction for abusing a congregant teenager upheld on appeal
2011 Mansfield, Ohio, USA
United States: Youth pastor's scripture-based grooming of church girls, convictions and 40-year sentence affirmed
2011 YFZ Ranch near Eldorado, TX, USA
Warren Jeffs: life and 20-year sentences for two child-sexual-assault convictions
2010 Newcastle and Hunter region, NSW, Australia
Australia: priest John Sidney Denham convicted of abusing at least 57 boys
2010 Vienna, Austria
Austria: Klasnic Commission establishes independent victim-protection process for church abuse claims
2010 Oregon City, OR, USA
Beagley faith-healing death: parents convicted (criminally negligent homicide)
2010 Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India
Bhilai human-sacrifice murder: Supreme Court confirmed convictions and death sentences
2010 Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India
Durg human-sacrifice murder: Supreme Court confirmed convictions and life sentences
2010 Fanda, Senegal
Fanda: independent GRACE investigation finds more than 50 missionaries' children abused at New Tribes Mission boarding school
2010 County Cork, Ireland
Ireland (2010): Cloyne priest given a suspended sentence for gross indecency
2010 Jerusalem, Israel
Israel: 'rabbi' Elior Chen — 24 years for torturing a follower's children, upheld by the Supreme Court
2010 Frankfort, Kentucky, USA
Kentucky: priest Joseph Muench sentenced after Alford plea to unlawful imprisonment and attempted sexual abuse
2010 Mexico City, Mexico
Marcial Maciel and the Legionaries of Christ: Holy See findings on abuse and a founder-centered system of power
2010 Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
New Brunswick: Acadian priest Lévi Noël sentenced to eight years, the heaviest sentence ever given a Catholic priest in Canada
2010 Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand
New Zealand: Marist Brother convicted of eleven historic sex offences against boarders at a Catholic boarding school
2010 Zabrze, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Poland: nun convicted of mistreating children and enabling sexual abuse at a Zabrze care home
2010 Colonie, New York, USA
Rabbi Yaakov Weiss (Chabad of Colonie founder): guilty plea for endangering two boys, including contact in the synagogue's mikveh
2010 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Fr James Robinson convicted on 21 counts after extradition from California
2010 Newburgh, New York, USA
United States (2010): youth pastor's convictions for abusing three Sunday-school boys affirmed
2010 Washington, Daviess County, Indiana, USA
United States: pastor convicted of raping the young son of a family who housed his church, sentenced to eighty years
2009 Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentina: Julio Grassi's conviction for abusing a boy of his children's foundation — final at every level
2009 Paris, France
Church of Scientology convicted of organized fraud (upheld 2013)
2009 Líbano, Tolima, Colombia
Colombia: priest convicted of abusing displaced children in his care — and the Supreme Court's landmark civil ruling
2009 Crna Reka, Serbia
Crna Reka spiritual-rehabilitation center: employee rape and violence convictions
2009 Banjol, Rab, Krk Diocese, Croatia
Croatia: Krk Diocese priest's final conviction for indecent acts against five boys, upheld on appeal
2009 Kanilai, The Gambia
Gambia state 'witch-hunt': TRRC finds Jammeh-ordered ritual-cleansing campaign killed dozens
2009 Alassio, Savona, Liguria, Italy
Italy: Albenga-Imperia diocese priest's conviction for abusing an altar server stands, though the church later cleared him
2009 Sedona, AZ, USA
James Arthur Ray: three negligent-homicide convictions after “Spiritual Warrior” sweat lodge
2009 Shinchi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Japan: prayer healer convicted of defrauding clients of 130 million yen through purported spiritual consultations
2009 Kaneohe, HI, USA
Manuel Taboada: eight sexual-assault convictions after scripture was used to justify abuse
2009 Dublin, Ireland
Ryan Commission: abuse 'endemic' in Catholic-run institutions (state inquiry)
2009 Victoria, Australia
Stawingua Dresen: eight convictions for assaults during claimed chakra healing
2009 Texarkana and Fouke, AR, USA
Tony Alamo: 175-year sentence after ten convictions for transporting minors for sex
2009 Ealing, London, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Ealing Abbey Benedictine monk and former headteacher convicted of abusing five pupils over 36 years
2009 Brooklyn, New York, USA
United States: bar-mitzvah tutor convicted of abusing two boys under his religious instruction
2009 Chicago, Illinois, USA
United States: Jesuit spiritual director Donald McGuire convicted in state and federal courts
2009 Laredo, Texas, USA
Zetas teenage sicarios Cardona and Reta: murder convictions in a cartel kill-team that toasted killings to Santa Muerte
2008 Blida, Algeria
'Raqi Hamdan': three-year sentence after fatal violence during claimed ruqya
2008 Moscow, Russia
Grigory Grabovoi: eleven fraud convictions for paid supernatural claims
2008 Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Holdeman Mennonite church discipline used to suppress reporting of an 18-year abuse case
2008 Philippines
Philippines: pastor's rape conviction affirmed by the Supreme Court — assault in the pastoral house
2008 Slovenia
Slovenia: first priest finally convicted of imprisonable child sexual abuse, five-year sentence
2008 Mukono District, Uganda
Uganda: shrine operator and accomplices convicted of gang-raping a client seeking healing
2008 Sunland, California, USA
United States: Baptist pastor sentenced to 32 years for abusing two congregant girls
2008 Gilmer, Texas, USA
United States: Baptist youth minister given life after faking his own death to flee
2008 Harrisville, Utah, USA
United States: LDS bishop imprisoned for molesting girls of his own ward
2007 Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Australia: Exclusive Brethren man convicted of sexually assaulting two girls he was responsible for under sect welfare arrangements
2007 Larimer County, Colorado, USA
Colorado: priest Timothy Evans — the only Colorado priest tried and convicted of sexual assault since 2002
2007 Tacoma, WA, USA
Dong Wan Park: church offices and false ordinations used in a religious-worker visa scheme
2007 Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, India
India: ritual dedication of girls (Devadasi/Jogini/Mathamma) feeding sexual exploitation
2007 Papilys, Biržai, Lithuania
Lithuania: priest convicted at Supreme Court level of indecent acts against two first-graders he taught
2007 McCarthy, Alaska, USA
Robert Hale / Papa Pilgrim: fourteen-year sentence after Bible-based isolation and coercion
2007 Newark, NJ, USA
State v. Miraballes — Palo Mayombe grave-robbing
2007 Douglas County, Minnesota, USA
United States: 2×2 travelling worker convicted of abusing the child of a host family
2007 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
United States: Milwaukee nun convicted of sexually abusing two boys she taught as school principal
2007 Annapolis, Maryland, USA
United States: Naval Academy chaplain court-martialed for forcibly sodomizing a midshipman and coercing men he was counseling
2006 Tel Aviv, Israel
ALEPH substantiates Marc Gafni's ethical breaches and bans him from Jewish Renewal settings
2006 Southwestern Ontario, Canada
Canada: priest pleads guilty to 47 counts against girls across four decades of parishes
2006 Somma Lombardo, Varese, Italy
Italy: 'Beasts of Satan' — group members killed by their own circle in satanic rites
2006 Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Ampleforth monk convicted of assaulting fifteen boys at the junior school
2006 San Jose, California, USA
United States: 2×2 worker Ruben Mata convicted — 36 years to life — for abusing boys of host families
2005 Šestine, Zagreb, Croatia
Croatia: parish priest's final conviction for indecent acts against ten schoolgirls in religious-education class
2005 United States (bankruptcy court, Texas) and India
ISKCON gurukula abuse: $9.5 million court-supervised settlement for former boarding students
2005 Fresno, CA, USA
Marcus Wesson: nine murder and fourteen sexual-abuse convictions
2005 Feilding, New Zealand
New Zealand: Christian Brother Andrew Cody convicted of sexually abusing sick and vulnerable boys in his care at Hato Pāora College
2005 Humenné region, eastern Slovakia
Slovakia: priest convicted of sexually abusing a girl who visited his parish rectory as a child, verdict delivered 18 years after the abuse
2005 Tanacu, Vaslui, Romania
Tanacu exorcism death: Orthodox priest and nuns convicted after a fatal 'demon' exorcism
2005 Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany
United States: Army chaplain court-martialed in Germany for forcible sodomy against enlisted men he was counseling
2005 Pomona, California, USA
United States: Buddhist monk's rape conviction and the temple's civil liability for enabling access to victims
2005 Georgia, USA
United States: church youth-choir director convicted of molesting a boy from his choir
2005 Newton, Massachusetts, USA
United States: Paul Shanley's child-rape conviction affirmed by the Supreme Judicial Court
2004 Guernsey, WY, USA
Anthony Jablonowski: prison sentence for abuse following priestly counseling
2004 Inuvik, NWT / Manitoba, Canada
Canada: Grollier Hall supervisor convicted in the 1960s — then ordained a priest in 1990
2004 Kamloops and Mission, British Columbia, Canada
Canada: Kamloops and St. Mary's residential-school supervisor's conviction on twelve counts of sexual abuse
2004 Eatonton, GA, USA
Dwight York: 135-year sentence after eleven federal convictions
2004 Alberta, Canada
Harold Mearon: twelve years after a man posing as a 'medicine man' abused women and girls during 'healing' sessions
2004 Knutby, Uppsala, Sweden
Helge Fossmo: murder-incitement convictions after religious messages were used to compel violence
2004 Savona, Liguria, Italy
Italy: Savona-Noli diocese priest's conviction for abusing a migrant minor in his custody, final since 2010
2004 Kenner, LA, USA
Louisiana curse-removal fraud convictions
2004 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Quebec: Petit Séminaire de Québec priest-teacher pleads guilty to sexually abusing seven students
2004 Hagerstown, Maryland, USA
United States: Episcopal school chaplain Kenneth Behrel convicted of abusing two students, second sentence after appeal
2003 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Australia: priest and youth-foundation director Michael Glennon convicted across three rounds
2003 Marshall, Texas, USA
ELCA pastor Gerald P. Thomas Jr. convicted of sex crimes against children from his congregation
2003 London, UK
Hackney 'witch-child' torture case
2003 Hong Kong
Hong Kong: feng shui master jailed for 'mystical rites' sex with a fourteen-year-old
2003 Letterfrack, Galway, Ireland
Ireland: Br Dax convicted of sexually abusing boys at Letterfrack industrial school
2003 Boston, MA, USA
Massachusetts attorney general finds institutional failure enabled abuse in Boston Archdiocese
2003 Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Minnesota: Catholic priest's conviction for sexually penetrating a parishioner during spiritual counseling reinstated by state Supreme Court
2003 Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
New Hampshire attorney general publishes 9,000-page investigative file naming 35 New Hampshire priests
2003 Tacoma, Washington, USA
United States: Youth pastor's guilty plea to child rape of boys in his congregation, Church For All Nations
2003 Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: apostolic shrine leader convicted on seven counts of raping women who came for spiritual help
2002 Lismore and Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Australia: Anglican priest Allan Kitchingham convicted of indecent assault on a boy at North Coast Children's Home
2002 Manchester, NH, USA
Diocese of Manchester: child-endangerment evidence resolved through a monitored nonprosecution agreement
2002 Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
Ferryhouse: Ryan Report records a convicted Brother and dormitory access given to outsiders
2002 Lyon, France
Four Raelian Movement members: final convictions for offenses at movement meetings
2002 Letterfrack, Galway, Ireland
Ireland: Br Anatole convicted of indecently assaulting boys at Letterfrack industrial school
2002 Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand: church youth leader Nathanael Thompson convicted of sexually violating boys he met through his congregation; conviction upheld on appeal
2002 Atlanta, Georgia, USA
United States: House of Prayer pastor convicted — affirmed on appeal — for church-ordered whippings of children
2002 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
United States: John Geoghan convicted — the case that broke open the Boston scandal
2002 Ocean Township, New Jersey, USA
United States: NCSY national director convicted of abusing students at the yeshiva he led
2001 London, UK
'Adam' — child ritual murder, torso in the Thames
2001 Timmins–North Bay area, Ontario, Canada
Canada: Jehovah's Witness bishop-equivalent elder convicted of sexually exploiting a ward member he was counseling
2001 Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Japan: self-professed exorcist executed for beating six believers to death in demon-expulsion rites
2001 Richmond Hill, Queens, New York, USA
United States: Hindu priest convicted of sexually abusing a parishioner who came to him for counseling
2001 Harlingen, Cameron County, Texas, USA
United States: LDS ward clerk convicted of indecency with a member's child after two families' complaints to the bishop, affirmed
2001 Evergreen, Colorado, USA (offense); Golden, Colorado, USA (trial)
USA: two attachment-therapy practitioners convicted of reckless child abuse resulting in death of Candace Newmaker
2001 London, UK
Victoria Climbié: murder convictions; possession belief; Laming Inquiry followed
2000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Commonwealth v. Foster: child-endangerment convictions affirmed after parents refused cancer care for a toddler on religious grounds
2000 Craigsville, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
United States: Asatru 'high priest' executed for ritually murdering a fellow member of his own prison kindred
1999 Ballarat, Port Fairy and Ouyen, Victoria, Australia
Australia: Ballarat Diocese priest Bryan Coffey convicted of indecently assaulting parish children across three decades
1999 Fort Albany, Ontario, Canada
Canada: St Anne's residential-school nun convicted of assaults and administering a noxious substance
1999 Hunan, China
China: 'Lord God Sect' founder executed after conviction for raping eleven followers
1999 Lota, Cork, Ireland
Ireland: Brothers of Charity convictions at Lota — repeated pleas across three courts
1999 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
United States: Kingston Order leader convicted of incest after a doctrinal plural 'marriage' to his niece
1999 St. Petersburg, FL, USA
US: DeMolay 'Chapter Dad' convicted on 27 counts, life sentence, for abusing his own chapter's teen members
1998 Ormiston, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Australia: breatharian teachers convicted of manslaughter after a 21-day 'initiation' fast killed their student
1998 Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada
Canada: Grollier Hall supervisor convicted across three decades of proceedings
1998 Fort Albany, Ontario, Canada
Canada: St Anne's residential-school nun convicted of assaulting female students
1998 Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
Commonwealth v. Nixon: convictions affirmed after Faith Tabernacle parents used prayer for a dying diabetic teen
1998 Lubuk Pakam, North Sumatra, Indonesia
Indonesia: dukun executed after 42 murders of women who came to him for spiritual help
1998 Wexford, Ireland
Ireland: Ferns priest sentenced to four years after pleading guilty to indecent assault
1998 Clearwater, Florida, USA
Lisa McPherson: felony charges filed, then dropped, over a member's death during the Introspection Rundown
1998 Mamou, Guinea
Mamou Alliance Academy: independent commission finds decades of physical, sexual and psychological abuse of missionaries' children
1998 Volta Region, Ghana
Trokosi ritual servitude of girls (~1,400)
1998 Dallas, Texas, USA
United States: Rudolph Kos sentenced to life after altar boys' testimony of years of abuse
1997 Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India
Dharamsala triple murder: two Dorje Shugden-associated suspects charged but never tried
1997 Potomac, Maryland, USA
Gurdarshan Singh (head granthi, Guru Gobind Singh Foundation): guilty plea for child sexual abuse of a student
1997 Potomac, Maryland, USA
Gurdarshan Singh: Sikh granthi's guilty plea for abusing a child music student at his gurdwara foundation
1997 Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA
Heaven's Gate: official investigation determines 39 members participated in collective suicide
1997 Tiruchirappalli, India
Swami Premananda: convicted of 13 rapes + murder; double life; died in custody
1997 Houston, Texas, USA
United States: Church of the Lamb of God successor convicted of ordering the murder of sect defectors
1996 New South Wales, Canberra and Innisfail, Queensland, Australia
Australia: Marist Brother Gregory Sutton convicted across three decades of sexually abusing children in New South Wales, Canberra and Queensland
1996 Moundsville, WV, USA
Kirtanananda (New Vrindaban): racketeering plea; Drescher convicted of murders of dissidents
1996 British Columbia, Canada
Missionary Oblates and the residential-school system: clergy convictions and documented abuse of Indigenous children
1996 Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
United States: pastor convicted of statutory rape of a congregant; retaining church ousted from SBC decades later
1995 Tokyo, Japan
Aum Shinrikyo: mass-murder convictions for sarin attacks directed by its guru
1995 Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
Australia: Salvation Army sergeant Willem Willemson convicted of indecent assault at Box Hill Boys' Home
1995 Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada
Canada: Alberni residential-school supervisor sentenced as a 'sexual terrorist'
1995 London, UK
Ward judgment: High Court findings on Children of God child sexual abuse
1994 Lake Eildon, Victoria, Australia
Australia: Hamilton-Byrne's 'The Family' — children acquired by fraud for a woman who told them she was Christ
1994 Lake County, Waukegan, Illinois, USA
Illinois: head pastor and 'bishop' convicted of sexually assaulting two minor members of his international church
1994 Ireland
Ireland: Brendan Smyth — twelve years on seventy-four counts, and the case that broke the Irish scandal
1994 Fayette County, Kentucky, USA
Kentucky: priest Leonard Nienaber convicted of ten counts of child sexual abuse
1994 Lenox, MA, USA
Kripalu removes founder Amrit Desai after concealed relationships with disciples
1994 Keene, New Hampshire, USA
New Hampshire: priest Gordon MacRae convicted of sexual assault; conviction upheld through direct appeal and federal habeas review
1994 Auckland and Invercargill, New Zealand
New Zealand: Marist Brother Charles Afeaki repeatedly convicted and re-sentenced for serial child sexual abuse at Auckland and Invercargill schools
1994 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
United States: the highest-ranking LDS official ever convicted — 'exploited the religious respect' she held for him
1993 Mount Carmel, near Waco, Texas, USA
Branch Davidians at Waco: official findings on authority, abuse evidence, siege and deaths
1993 Burnt River, Ontario, Canada
Roch Thériault / Ant Hill Kids: life sentence after spiritual rule, ritualized violence and murder
1993 Burnt River and Coboconk, Ontario, Canada
Roch Thériault and the Ant Hill Kids: murder and aggravated-assault convictions
1993 Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA
United States: David Holley sentenced to 275 years for abusing boys across two dioceses
1993 Santa Barbara, California, USA
United States: Franciscan province of Santa Barbara's own investigation finds 34 boys abused by a dozen priests at St Anthony's Seminary
1993 Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
United States: James Porter pleads guilty to 41 counts against 28 children
1992 Albany, Auckland, New Zealand
Bert Potter: 13 convictions for abuse framed as therapy and spiritual advancement at Centrepoint
1992 South Shore and Goodwin, SD, USA
Edward J. Werner: seven affirmed convictions after using pastoral access to abuse parish girls
1992 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
New Mexico: Catholic priest convicted decades later of sexually abusing altar servers across three Albuquerque parishes
1992 Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, USA
US: DeMolay chapter advisor Eric Sims convicted, 70 years to life, for sodomizing and molesting chapter boys he groomed with gifts
1992 Miami, FL, USA
Yahweh ben Yahweh: 18-year sentence for a RICO conspiracy involving murder and arson
1991 St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Canada: Hughes Inquiry finds justice system suppressed the Mount Cashel investigation
1991 St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Canada: Mount Cashel superintendent convicted of assaulting seven boys in his care
1991 Williams Lake and Kuper Island, British Columbia, Canada
Canada: Oblate brother Glenn Doughty convicted across two proceedings of sexually abusing Indigenous children at two British Columbia residential schools
1991 Friedrichshof, Burgenland, Austria
Otto Muehl: seven-year sentence for sexual abuse and abuse of authority within Friedrichshof
1991 Waukegan and Oregon, Illinois, USA
United States: Episcopal priest Richard Kearney convicted of abusing teenage boys in his parishes
1990 Los Angeles County, California, USA
California: self-proclaimed curandero's convictions for sexually assaulting followers under threat of illness and death affirmed
1990 Igloolik and Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada
Canada: Oblate missionary priest convicted across three proceedings (1990, 2015, 2025) of sexually abusing Inuit children in his own parishes
1990 Ballyfermot and Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland
Dublin Archdiocese: Murphy Report finds a serial abuser known from 1978 was transferred, not removed
1990 County Wexford, Ireland
Ireland (1990): Ferns priest given a suspended sentence for indecent and common assault
1990 St Joseph's School for Deaf Boys, Cabra, Dublin, Ireland
Ireland: at the deaf school in Cabra, one man was Garda-investigated with no recorded outcome, and three more were let go without the Gardai ever being told
1990 Kilkenny, Ireland
Ireland: St Mary's School for the Deaf — Dominican Sisters admit a visiting priest sexually abused a pupil; he 'left shortly after ... and never returned', no Garda referral recorded
1990 Kirtland, OH, USA
Jeffrey Lundgren: five aggravated-murder and kidnapping convictions
1990 Waukegan, Illinois, USA
United States (1990): pastor's convictions affirmed for abusing two children of a churchgoing family
1989 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Canada: congregation elder convicted of sexually assaulting a disabled member of his own congregation
1989 British Columbia, Canada
Canada: Oblate priest Harold McIntee convicted of sexually assaulting 17 boys and young men across three decades at a residential school and two parishes
1989 Boulder, Colorado, USA
Ösel Tendzin (Vajra Regent): knowing HIV transmission to students within Vajradhatu
1988 Boulder, CO, USA
Ösel Tendzin / Vajradhatu: HIV nondisclosure allegations and leadership response
1986 Whitley County, IN, USA
Gary and Margaret Hall: reckless-homicide convictions after prayer replaced medical care
1986 Huntington Beach, California, USA
United States: Orange diocese associate pastor convicted on 26 counts; initially sentenced to probation
1985 Pennsylvania, USA
Commonwealth v. Barnhart: convictions affirmed after Faith Tabernacle parents relied on prayer for a child's cancer
1985 Mississauga, ON, Canada
Matthew Berko: Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest convicted of assaulting his parish youth-group president
1985 Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
United States: Gilbert Gauthe — the first widely publicized American priest conviction
1985 California, USA
United States: Sunday school teacher's criminal conviction for molesting a boy in his class; church's own civil liability rejected on appeal
1984 Elkhart and Kosciusko Counties, IN, USA
Faith Assembly mortality investigation: 40 confirmed deaths amid avoidance of medical care
1983 Goldenbridge, Dublin, Ireland
Goldenbridge: Ryan Report finds pervasive punishment and constant humiliation of committed girls
1980 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Canada: military base chaplain court-martialed for sexually assaulting children in the base chapel at CFB Edmonton
1980 Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
Ireland: a Rosminian priest admitted sexually abusing a child to his Provincial in 1980; the Order sat on it for 15 years and a solicitor advised against telling the Gardai even after the Department said to
1980 Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
Ireland: Ferryhouse Brother caught raping and drugging boys for four years is dismissed, not reported to Gardai — and when told directly, a Department of Education official decides 'no further action' is needed
1980 Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA
United States: priest convicted of raping his altar boy decades earlier, sentence affirmed on appeal
1978 North West District, Guyana
Jonestown and Peoples Temple: coercive control, official investigations and mass deaths
1975 Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
Ireland: Ryan Report records the conviction of a Ferryhouse volunteer worker, pseudonymised as 'Mr Garnier', for abusing a 15-year-old boy
1973 Daingean, County Offaly, Ireland
Daingean: Ryan Report finds flogging 'inhumane and cruel' in a climate of fear
1971 Los Angeles, California, USA
United States: the Manson Family — convictions built on a leader's total authority over his followers
1971 Chatsworth, Los Angeles County, California, USA
United States: the Manson Family's killing of Spahn Ranch hand 'Shorty' Shea on suspicion of informing
1970 Topanga, Los Angeles County, California, USA
United States: the Gary Hinman murder — the killing of a man inside the Manson Family's own orbit
1969 Artane, Dublin, Ireland
Artane: Ryan Report finds Brothers who admitted abusing boys were retained and transferred
1969 Los Angeles County, California, USA
Charles Manson and the Family: convictions tied to apocalyptic authority and coercive control
1969 Vidal and Blythe, California, USA
Solar Lodge (OTO standing contested): child-abuse convictions and Jean Brayton's no-contest plea
1969 Berlin, Germany
The Kentler experiment: foster placements with known pedophiles in West Berlin
1969 Blythe, Riverside County, California, USA
United States: seven convicted after a six-year-old was found chained in a box at a desert commune
1964 Maastricht, Netherlands
Netherlands (1964): brother convicted of abusing a pupil from the age of eight
1963 Morley, Alberta, Canada
Canada (1963): Morley residential-school conviction for indecent assault
1963 Yerbabuena, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Mexico: 'high priestess' convicted after followers who doubted her godhood were killed as sacrifices
1962 Salthill, Galway, Ireland
Ireland: 'In none of the Br Dacian cases was there a prosecution or even a formal report to the Gardai' — the Ryan Report's own words for a 25-year pattern
1961 Maastricht, Netherlands
Netherlands (1961): brother's sentence halved on appeal but conviction and teaching ban upheld
1960 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Canada (1960): Edmonton residential-school conviction for gross indecency
1959 Amersfoort, Netherlands
Netherlands (1959): religious-order brother convicted of abusing schoolboys in his care
1958 Maastricht, Netherlands
Netherlands (1958): senior congregation member convicted, prosecution appealing the sentence as too light
1957 Veurne, Belgium
Belgium (1957): five-year sentence for a priest who abused eighteen boys under sixteen
1957 Hasselt, Belgium
Belgium (1957): priest sentenced to three years for the abuse of twenty-five boys
1956 Harreveld, Netherlands
Netherlands (1956): two friars convicted after a boarding-school pupil's complaint — the Heithuis case
1955 Greenmount, Cork, Ireland
Ireland: 'Br Carlito was not prosecuted' — the Ryan Report's own words for a Resident Manager two bishops and a Garda superintendent all knew about
1954 Bindoon, Western Australia, Australia
Bindoon Farm School: Royal Commission finding on abuse of child migrants in Christian Brothers care
1954 Kilkenny and Upton, Ireland
Ireland: the cases that were never prosecuted — clergy lobbying and the State's decisions not to charge
1954 Upton, County Cork, Ireland
Ireland: the Rosminians' own Rome archive names seven sexual abusers at Upton across three decades — 'the Order did not expel members for sexual abuse' and none were ever reported as a crime
1954 Eindhoven, Netherlands
Netherlands (1954): brother given a suspended sentence, lost his teaching credential, and reoffended
1954 Netherlands
Netherlands (1954): friar convicted of abusing three boys of about eight
1953 Tralee, Kerry, Ireland
Ireland: Tralee's known abuser was never reported to the Gardaí — a twenty-year non-prosecution pattern
1951 Turlock, California, USA
United States (1951): Turlock pastor's guilty plea to statutory rape of a congregant affirmed
1948 Lenoir City, Tennessee, USA
United States (1948): Baptist pastor's abduction conviction affirmed — a church member 'considerably under his influence'
1948 Chico, California, USA
United States (1948): Chico rector's convictions affirmed for lewd acts against his guild boys and altar boys
1947 Gordon's Reserve, Saskatchewan, Canada
Canada (1947): second Gordon's residential-school conviction in the TRC's appendix
1947 Major County, Oklahoma, USA
United States (1947): revival minister's conviction affirmed for abusing a boy entrusted by his mother
1946 Carriglea, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
Ireland: Carriglea industrial school — internal Church tribunals found 'criminal or indecent assault' proven, twice, and never once called the Gardai
1945 Gordon's Reserve, Saskatchewan, Canada
Canada (1945): Gordon's residential-school staff member convicted — documented by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
1944 Glin, County Limerick, Ireland
Ireland: Glin industrial school — a confessed abuser offered the choice of 'apply for a dispensation or stand trial', and the Congregation chose neither
1932 Letterfrack, County Galway, Ireland
Letterfrack: Ryan Report finding on abuse of a boy committed to a Christian Brothers industrial school
1925 Great Bend, Kansas, USA
United States (1925): Kansas pastor's statutory-rape conviction affirmed — victim 'whose spiritual mentor he was'
1819 Saco and York County, Maine (then District of Maine, Massachusetts), USA
United States: Self-proclaimed prophet convicted of adultery and gross lewdness after assigning half his sect's women to himself as 'spiritual wives'