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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Amersfoort, Netherlands · 1959

Netherlands (1959): religious-order brother convicted of abusing schoolboys in his care

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

brother of a teaching religious order at the Saint Louis school

Organization

Saint Louis school, Amersfoort

Spiritual nexus

Schoolboys under a religious-order teacher — and a teaching licence that survived the conviction, which is the institutional half of the story.

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

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 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

Primary record

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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