Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Westminster and Ampleforth, England, United Kingdom · 2015

United Kingdom: choir-school housemaster convicted on all fifteen counts against ten boys

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

housemaster at Westminster Cathedral Choir School, music teacher at Ampleforth

Organization

Westminster Cathedral Choir School, Ampleforth College

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Choir-school boarders lived under the housemaster's pastoral and disciplinary control inside Catholic institutions; the private lesson was the isolating instrument.

Institutional obedience or isolation
Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2015-02-05 · conviction on all counts and sentence

Southwark Crown Court, England. David Lowe, a housemaster at Westminster Cathedral Choir School and music teacher at Ampleforth, was convicted on all fifteen counts of indecent assault against ten boys between 1978 and 1984, committed in dormitories and during private singing lessons, and sentenced on 5 February 2015 to ten years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

live-in housemaster authority over choir boarders
private music lessons

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Former Catholic choir school teacher David Lowe jailed', IBTimes UK (Feb. 2015).: Reports the conviction on all counts and the sentence.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/former-catholic-choir-school-teacher-david-lowe-jailed-10-years-child-sex-abuse-1486574 Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 15caf082c60e1f2b60f7dfd97e038466b8827adc88ee5a59cacb00dc9e6d2f5e
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