Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic County Cork, Ireland · 2010

Ireland (2010): Cloyne priest given a suspended sentence for gross indecency

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

priest of the Diocese of Cloyne

Organization

Diocese of Cloyne

Archive classification

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A diocesan priest and a child in his reach.

Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2010-11-01 · guilty plea to one count; suspended sentence

Irish court (not specified in the report). A priest of the Diocese of Cloyne, recorded in the Cloyne Report under the pseudonym Fr Caden, faced three counts of gross indecency, pleaded guilty to one in November 2010, and received an eighteen-month suspended sentence.

Documented coercion mechanisms

priestly access to a child of the diocese

Cited record

Sources

official commission finding commission conviction record The Cloyne Report (Ireland, 2011), via the Internet Archive.: Commission report recording the plea and sentence.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://archive.org/details/216118-cloyne-report Corpus classification: official-commission-finding; evidentiary role: commission-conviction-record. SHA-256 9efc45c11e0e5182cbe5a47c63fbc1eae6cf0c790fc3dbebe8a276dc579fff79
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