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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Slovenia · 2008

Slovenia: first priest finally convicted of imprisonable child sexual abuse, five-year sentence

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Roman Catholic parish priest (župnik)

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

As the family's parish priest, Frantar held pastoral authority over the girl from early childhood, using years of trusted access within that relationship to abuse her.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. Date in cited record · conviction, final

    Higher Court, Ljubljana. Fr Franci Frantar was convicted of sexually abusing a girl for several years, beginning when she was in third grade, and sentenced to five years' imprisonment by the Ljubljana Higher Court in December 2008 — press describe him as the first Slovenian priest with a final prison sentence for child sexual abuse. He evaded custody for over a year using medical certificates before beginning his sentence in April 2010 at Dob prison; conditionally released in 2012. The Holy See laicised him in 2013.

Appellate history

  1. 2008-12

    Higher Court, Ljubljana, imposed the final five-year sentence.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral authority over a child parishioner
  • years-long access built through the parish relationship

Primary record

Sources

public broadcaster court reporting sentencing report RTV SLO: 'Obsojeni župnik Franci Frantar bo moral v zapor'.

Reports Frantar beginning his sentence in 2010 after evading custody, confirming the final five-year term.

national newspaper court reporting laicisation report 24ur.com: 'Franc Frantar postal laik'.

Reports the Holy See's 2013 laicisation of Frantar following his conviction.

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