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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Maastricht, Netherlands · 1961

Netherlands (1961): brother's sentence halved on appeal but conviction and teaching ban upheld

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

brother of a religious order serving as teacher and youth leader

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Pupils under a brother who was both their teacher and their youth leader.

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

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1961-07-20 · conviction; sentence reduced on appeal, conviction and ban upheld

    Rechtbank Maastricht; Gerechtshof 's-Hertogenbosch (appeal). A religious-order brother working as a teacher and youth leader, recorded in the Deetman Report under the code FIC10, was convicted on 20 July 1961 at Maastricht of indecent acts with pupils between 1957 and 1960, and sentenced to two years with a seven-year teaching ban. On appeal the 's-Hertogenbosch court reduced the sentence to one year, ten months of it suspended, while upholding both the conviction and the seven-year ban.

Appellate history

  1. 1961 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • combined teaching and youth-leadership authority over pupils

Primary record

Sources

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

Commission report recording the conviction, appeal and outcome.

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