Austria: Benedictine boarding-school director convicted of abusing 24 students
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Convicted
Authority role
Benedictine monk, prefect, then director of the abbey boarding school
Organization
Stift Kremsmünster
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The victims were boys resident at a monastic boarding school where the defendant, as monk and director, held combined religious, custodial and disciplinary authority over them.
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2013-07-03 · conviction and sentence
Landesgericht Steyr, Austria. August Mandorfer (Pater Alfons), a Benedictine monk of Stift Kremsmünster who served as prefect and then director of its boarding school until 1996, was convicted on 3 July 2013 of the documented sexual abuse of 24 former students under his custodial authority and sentenced to twelve years. He had been laicised by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 following canonical proceedings.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- custodial and disciplinary authority over resident students at a monastic school
Cited record
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- national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Stift Kremsmünster: Ex-Konviktsdirektor zu zwölf Jahren Haft verurteilt', profil (Austria), July 2013.
Austrian news magazine reporting the Landesgericht Steyr conviction and twelve-year sentence.
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