Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden · 2013

Sweden: Pentecostal youth-ministry leader convicted of raping a 14-year-old congregation member

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

youth-ministry leader (ungdomsledare) in a Pentecostal (Pingst) congregation

Organization

Pingströrelsen (Pentecostal Movement, Sweden) — local Östergötland congregation, unnamed in source

Archive classification

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The victim was a minor member of the congregation whose access to the perpetrator ran entirely through his formal role in the church's youth ministry; the district court's own finding centered on his abuse of that position of trust rather than treating the case as generic acquaintance rape.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2013-04-05 · conviction and sentence

Linköpings tingsrätt (Linköping District Court), Sweden. A 42-year-old man engaged in youth ministry (ungdomsarbete) at a local Pentecostal congregation was convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl who attended the congregation's youth activities, at the church's own facilities. He was sentenced to four years' imprisonment. The court held that he had 'abused a position of trust in relation to the victim and subjected the victim to a serious violation' (missbrukat ett förtroende i förhållande till målsäganden och utsatt målsäganden för en allvarlig kränkning).

Documented coercion mechanisms

position of trust in the congregation's youth work, exploited directly against a minor member
access to church youth facilities

Cited record

Sources

national christian daily verdict report 'Fängelse för sexuella övergrepp i pingstkyrka', Dagen, 5 April 2013.: Sweden's national Christian daily reporting the Linköping District Court conviction and sentence: 'tingsrätten [...] anser att mannen missbrukat ett förtroende i förhållande till målsäganden och utsatt målsäganden för en allvarlig kränkning' (the district court [...] finds the man abused a position of trust in relation to the victim and subjected the victim to a serious violation). English gloss inline above.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.dagen.se/nyheter/fangelse-for-sexuella-overgrepp-i-pingstkyrka/3118725 Corpus classification: national-christian-daily; evidentiary role: verdict-report. SHA-256 2ca4603d8084d1e0c9cbeac3d39ce0f13049c2d6d9c2f082b49f5130f65390e9
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