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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Netherlands · 1954

Netherlands (1954): friar convicted of abusing three boys of about eight

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

frater of a religious congregation

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Three eight-year-olds under a religious congregation's frater — the earliest of the Deetman convictions the corpus now carries.

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

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1954-01-01 · conviction and sentence

    Dutch trial court. A frater of a religious congregation, recorded in the Deetman Report under the code CMM4, was convicted in 1954 of sexual acts with three boys of about eight years old over roughly a year, and sentenced to nine months less time served plus four months suspended.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • religious-congregation authority over young children

Primary record

Sources

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

Commission report recording the conviction and sentence.

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