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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Maastricht, Netherlands · 1958

Netherlands (1958): senior congregation member convicted, prosecution appealing the sentence as too light

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

senior member of a religious congregation

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Boys under a senior figure of a religious congregation.

  • Institutional obedience or isolation
  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1958-12-01 · conviction and sentence; prosecution appeal on leniency

    Rechtbank Maastricht, Netherlands. A senior member of a religious congregation, recorded in the Deetman Report under the code BHJ1, was convicted at Maastricht in December 1958 of the sexual abuse of multiple boys and sentenced to one year. The prosecution, which had sought two years unconditional, appealed the sentence as too lenient; the report does not state the appeal's outcome.

Appellate history

  1. 1958 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • seniority within a religious congregation giving access to boys

Primary record

Sources

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

Commission report recording the conviction and the prosecution's appeal.

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