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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

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

housemaster at Westminster Cathedral Choir School, music teacher at Ampleforth

Organization

Westminster Cathedral Choir School, Ampleforth College

Spiritual nexus

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

  1. 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

Primary 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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