Documentary record Bound by Fear
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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Eindhoven, Netherlands · 1954

Netherlands (1954): brother given a suspended sentence, lost his teaching credential, and reoffended

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

brother of a religious order teaching at the Eikenburg school

Organization

Eikenburg school

Spiritual nexus

Pupils under a teaching brother — and a documented reoffence three years later, which is why the corpus records the institutional response alongside the sentence.

  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1954-01-01 · conviction; suspended sentence and loss of teaching credential

    Dutch trial court. A religious-order brother teaching at the Eikenburg school, recorded in the Deetman Report under the code FC5, was convicted in 1954 of sexual misconduct as a teacher, received an eight-month suspended sentence and lost his teaching credential. The report records that he offended again in 1957 against a juvenist; that later conduct was not separately adjudicated in the material extracted.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • teaching authority over pupils at a Catholic school

Primary record

Sources

official commission finding commission conviction record Deetman Report (Netherlands, 2011), via the Internet Archive.

Commission report recording the conviction, sentence and subsequent reoffence.

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