Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Guernsey, WY, USA · 2004

Anthony Jablonowski: prison sentence for abuse following priestly counseling

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest and pastor of St. Anthony Catholic Church, priest providing personal counseling

Organization

St. Anthony Catholic Church in Guernsey, Diocese of Cheyenne

Archive classification

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Contemporaneous court reporting states that the abuse occurred in the parish rectory after the seventeen-year-old sought counseling from Jablonowski, then pastor of the local Catholic church. The documented nexus is the access and trust created by priestly counseling and the church setting.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2004-04-15 · no-contest plea and sentence

Platte County District Court, Wyoming. Jablonowski entered a no-contest plea to taking indecent, immodest or immoral liberties with a minor and received a sentence of fifteen months to seven years in prison.

Documented coercion mechanisms

priestly counseling access
rectory setting
pastoral authority
religious confidentiality asserted during the plea process

Cited record

Sources

contemporaneous wire court reporting archive criminal disposition and procedural limits Associated Press, 'A Chronology of the Case of Father Anthony Jablonowski' (Apr. 27, 2004), archived by BishopAccountability.org.: The contemporaneous chronology sourced to the county attorney, district-court documents and diocese records gives the investigation, no-contest plea, exact sentence and plea agreement's unfiled charges.
contemporaneous regional court reporting archive sentencing and nexus corroboration Ann Depperschmidt, 'Wyo. Ex-Priest's Case Uncovers Lurid Tales,' Denver Post (Apr. 18, 2004), archived by BishopAccountability.org.: Contemporaneous sentencing coverage corroborates the prison term, church and priestly setting, and separates the molestation disposition from the prosecutor's account of uncharged ritual conduct.
contemporaneous wire court reporting archive investigation and nexus corroboration Associated Press, 'Diocese Earns Praise for Help in Abuse Case' (Apr. 28, 2004), archived by BishopAccountability.org.: Contemporaneous reporting records the diocesan referral, criminal investigation, plea, religious counseling context and the distinction between the conviction and unfiled ritual allegations.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news13/2004_04_18_Depperschmidt_WyoEx_Anthony_Jablonowski_3.htm Corpus classification: contemporaneous-regional-court-reporting-archive; evidentiary role: sentencing-and-nexus-corroboration. SHA-256 01050bfc8a6a6c07f6365025ef5a621398a4fc41826d7328e74bb06ea58d0920
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Source and tier basis: https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2004_01_06/2004_04_28_AP_DioceseEarns.htm Corpus classification: contemporaneous-wire-court-reporting-archive; evidentiary role: investigation-and-nexus-corroboration. SHA-256 bd24d02cbe15fc9c0ee9e9b22c3f702b8cce781c6350836f6005298152607c68
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