Netherlands (1959): religious-order brother convicted of abusing schoolboys in his care
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Authority role
brother of a teaching religious order at the Saint Louis school
Organization
Saint Louis school, Amersfoort
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Schoolboys under a religious-order teacher — and a teaching licence that survived the conviction, which is the institutional half of the story.
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Proceedings
1959-06-16 · conviction and sentence
Dutch trial court (Rechtbank). A brother of a teaching religious order at the Saint Louis school in Amersfoort, recorded in the Deetman Report under the code FIC9, was convicted on 16 June 1959 of indecent acts with at least three boys aged fourteen and fifteen between 1955 and 1958, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment less time served. His teaching licence was not suspended.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- teaching authority over boys at a Catholic school
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Sources
- official commission finding commission conviction record Deetman Report (Netherlands, 2011), via the Internet Archive.
Commission report recording the conviction, sentence and licence outcome.
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- https://archive.org/details/RapportDeetmanSeksueelMisbruikRk Corpus classification: official-commission-finding; evidentiary role: commission-conviction-record. SHA-256 28730da9723b0e0a4d0b142e5d16b3eaf6f961a0e8dd9cf81e6620f0186f6354
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