Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 2003

Australia: priest and youth-foundation director Michael Glennon convicted across three rounds

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest, director of a religious youth foundation and camp

Organization

Peaceful Hand Youth Foundation

Spiritual nexus

The children were participants in a religious youth program run by a priest — his clerical standing created the foundation, the camps, and the parents' trust that delivered children into his control.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2003-10-01 · convictions in 1978, 1991 and 2003

Victorian courts, Australia. Michael Glennon was convicted in 1978 (two years), in 1991 (seven years, for buggery with violence and indecent assault), and in 2003 of 23 further offences including rape, receiving an effective 22-year sentence with a 15-year minimum. He used his priesthood and his Peaceful Hand Youth Foundation camps as access to children. He died in prison on 1 January 2014.

Documented coercion mechanisms

priestly standing and youth-camp authority over children in his programs

Primary record

Sources

national public broadcaster conviction history report 'Church took 20 years to defrock paedophile priest, inquiry hears', ABC News, 25 Aug. 2014.: Australia's public broadcaster confirming the three conviction rounds, the sentences, and his death in custody.

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