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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Brezno and Remšnik parishes, Slovenia · 2011

Slovenia: priest's final conviction for groping two girls during confirmation preparation

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

parish priest serving Brezno and Remšnik parishes

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Kmet used his role as the girls' priest during confirmation preparation — a rite of passage requiring one-on-one pastoral contact — as the setting for the abuse.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Ritual, oath, or initiation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. Date in cited record · conviction; upheld on appeal (final)

    District Court; Higher Court, Maribor (appeal). Fr Anton Kmet was convicted of groping two girls on the chest and buttocks during confirmation-preparation classes and sentenced to ten months' imprisonment. The Higher Court in Maribor confirmed the sentence in March 2011, making it final; he served the term. He was dismissed from the priesthood (laicised) in 2021, a decision confirmed by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Appellate history

  1. 2011-03

    Higher Court, Maribor, confirmed the district-court sentence; final.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • authority as the priest preparing the girls for confirmation

Primary record

Sources

public broadcaster court reporting appellate outcome report RTV SLO: 'Vrhovno sodišče: Župnik Kmet, obsojen pedofilije, mora za zapahe'.

Reports the confirmation of Kmet's conviction and custodial sentence.

public broadcaster court reporting laicisation report RTV SLO: 'Anton Kmet odslovljen iz duhovniškega poklica zaradi spolne zlorabe mladoletnic'.

Reports the 2021 Vatican-confirmed laicisation, referencing the underlying final criminal conviction.

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