United Kingdom: Ampleforth monk convicted of assaulting fifteen boys at the junior school
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
Benedictine monk and teacher
Organization
Ampleforth (Gilling Castle junior school)
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Junior boarders under a monk-teacher's combined religious and custodial authority.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
- Institutional obedience or isolation
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2006-01-01 · conviction and sentence
English Crown Court (Operation Ellipse). Fr Piers Grant-Ferris, a Benedictine monk, was convicted of twenty counts of indecent assault against fifteen boys at Gilling Castle junior school between 1966 and 1975. He died in 2015.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- monastic teaching and pastoral authority over junior boarders
Cited record
Sources
- official statutory inquiry report conviction history report IICSA Ampleforth investigation report, pen portrait of the Grant-Ferris conviction (2018; conviction 2006).
The inquiry's account of the conviction within its Ampleforth findings.
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- https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports-recommendations/publications/investigation/ampleforth-downside.html Corpus classification: official-statutory-inquiry-report; evidentiary role: conviction-history-report. SHA-256 5799876b1d4f837f63a5bd6b537664a73437cd7ade89805e70d3d11db016674e
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