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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · 2015

Germany: priest's six-year sentence for abusing two brothers confirmed by the Federal Court

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest of the Diocese of Aachen

Organization

Diocese of Aachen

Spiritual nexus

Two brothers under a priest's pastoral care across six years.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2015-01-01 · conviction; final after the Federal Court rejected the appeal

    Landgericht Krefeld; Bundesgerichtshof. Georg K., a former priest of the Diocese of Aachen, was convicted by the Krefeld regional court on twenty-five counts of abuse, four of them aggravated, against two brothers aged eleven to fifteen between 2001 and 2007, and sentenced to six years. The Federal Court of Justice rejected his appeal as unfounded in 2015, making the judgment final.

Appellate history

  1. 2015 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • priestly care of two brothers over six years

Primary record

Sources

institutional reporting against interest final appellate disposition kath.net: report of the BGH's rejection and the underlying conviction.

German Catholic news outlet's court report.

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