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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Southern Santa Catarina, Brazil · 2014

Brazil: priest's sentence raised to twenty-six years for abuse during pre-communion confession

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest serving multiple parishes in southern Santa Catarina

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The confessional itself was the site — children sent to prepare for their first communion, alone with the priest by the sacrament's own design.

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

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2014-01-01 · conviction; sentence increased on appeal

    Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina, 4ª Câmara Criminal. A priest who served several parishes in southern Santa Catarina was convicted of abusing children, preferentially boys, during the confession sessions that prepared them for first communion. His twenty-year sentence was increased on appeal in 2014 to twenty-six years and two months in closed regime after the prosecution's appeal was partially granted, adding a third count.

Appellate history

  1. 2014 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • abuse committed during confession sessions preparing children for first communion
  • movement across parishes and cities

Primary record

Sources

official court release appellate outcome release Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina: appellate release.

The appellate court's own release.

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