Lithuania: priest convicted at Supreme Court level of indecent acts against two first-graders he taught
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Convicted
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priest and religion teacher
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The girls were his religion pupils — children placed under a priest's direct instructional and spiritual authority in a church-linked educational role.
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Proceedings
2007-01-01 · conviction final at Supreme Court level
Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas (Supreme Court of Lithuania). Vidmantas Kareckas, a priest and religion teacher, was convicted at Supreme Court level of indecent acts (tvirkinimas) against two first-grade girls he taught as their religion instructor. Despite the conviction, the Panevėžys diocese did not remove him from parish work and later assigned him as resident priest of Biržai parish — a fact reported by Lithuania's public broadcaster.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- religious instruction of first-grade girls
Cited record
Sources
- national public broadcaster conviction history report 'Už pirmokių tvirkinimą teistas kunigas Kareckas paskirtas Biržų parapijos rezidentu', LRT.
Lithuania's public broadcaster on the conviction and the diocesan reassignment.
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- https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/lietuvoje/2/2313275/uz-pirmokiu-tvirkinima-teistas-kunigas-kareckas-birzu-parapijos-rezidentu Corpus classification: national-public-broadcaster; evidentiary role: conviction-history-report. SHA-256 16cfa8487682c6767216e754c0f9fe3d64dd2932b18a6fd49d5f268fd075e80e
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