Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Papilys, Biržai, Lithuania · 2007

Lithuania: priest convicted at Supreme Court level of indecent acts against two first-graders he taught

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

priest and religion teacher

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The girls were his religion pupils — children placed under a priest's direct instructional and spiritual authority in a church-linked educational role.

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

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

Primary 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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