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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Birmingham, England, United Kingdom · 2010

United Kingdom: Fr James Robinson convicted on 21 counts after extradition from California

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic parish priest

Organization

Archdiocese of Birmingham

Spiritual nexus

Parish boys under a priest's pastoral and confessional authority — the case IICSA later treated as emblematic of the archdiocese's failures.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2010-01-01 · conviction and sentence after extradition

    Birmingham Crown Court, England. Fr James Robinson was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court of 21 counts of sexual abuse of boys across West Midlands parishes between 1959 and 1983, having been extradited from California where he had lived for decades. He was jailed for 21 years and laicised.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral and confessional authority over parish boys, 1959–1983

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Priest James Robinson jailed for 21 years', CoventryLive (2010).

Reports the conviction, extradition and sentence.

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