United Kingdom: Downside housemaster convicted; school had kept him teaching after 1987 disclosure
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
Benedictine monk and housemaster
Organization
Downside School
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A live-in housemaster's pastoral control over boarders — and an institution that kept him in place after it knew.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
- Institutional obedience or isolation
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2012-01-01 · conviction and sentence
English Crown Court. Fr Richard White (known as 'Father Nicholas'), a Benedictine monk and housemaster, was jailed for five years for gross indecency and indecent assault against two boys at Downside School in 1987–1989; the school had allowed him to continue teaching after the first disclosure in 1987.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- live-in pastoral control over boarders
- institutional retention after first disclosure
Cited record
Sources
- national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Downside School monk jailed', HuffPost UK (Jan. 2012).
Reports the conviction and the post-1987 retention.
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- https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/06/downside-school-monk-jailed_n_1189318.html Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 fdcbd9c99660481b350d70e95acb5f1c08942232a07d41d306888f8467679711
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