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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Maastricht, Netherlands · 1964

Netherlands (1964): brother convicted of abusing a pupil from the age of eight

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

brother of a teaching religious order

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

A child abused from the age of eight by the brother who taught him.

  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1964-01-21 · conviction and sentence

    Rechtbank Maastricht, Netherlands. A religious-order brother, recorded in the Deetman Report under the code FIC11, was convicted at Maastricht on 21 January 1964 of indecent acts with a pupil beginning when the child was eight, the abuse having started in 1959, and sentenced to eight months with three suspended and a five-year teaching ban.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • teaching authority over a child from the age of eight

Primary record

Sources

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

Commission report recording the conviction and sentence.

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