Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Kremsmünster, Upper Austria, Austria · 2013

Austria: Benedictine boarding-school director convicted of abusing 24 students

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Benedictine monk, prefect, then director of the abbey boarding school

Organization

Stift Kremsmünster

Spiritual nexus

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.

Institutional obedience or isolation
Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

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

Primary record

Sources

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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