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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Hasselt, Belgium · 1957

Belgium (1957): priest sentenced to three years for the abuse of twenty-five boys

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

priest of the Diocese of Liège

Organization

Diocese of Liège

Spiritual nexus

Twenty-five boys of a parish, under their priest, in the 1950s — the era the corpus can least easily see.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1957-04-01 · conviction and sentence

    Belgian criminal court, Hasselt. A priest of the Diocese of Liège, recorded in the Deetman Report under the code bp1, was convicted in April 1957 of the sexual abuse of twenty-five boys committed in 1956 and 1957, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment with five years' loss of civil rights. He was released early.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • priestly access to boys across a parish

Primary record

Sources

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

Commission report recording the conviction, counts and sentence.

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