Germany: priest's six-year sentence for abusing two brothers confirmed by the Federal Court
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Appellate history
2015
Revision rejected as unfounded — rechtskräftig.
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
Catholic priest of the Diocese of Aachen
Organization
Diocese of Aachen
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Two brothers under a priest's pastoral care across six years.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
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Proceedings
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.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- priestly care of two brothers over six years
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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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- http://kath.net/news/52616 Corpus classification: institutional-reporting-against-interest; evidentiary role: final-appellate-disposition. SHA-256 6e7b5d9659c55a17a64587f8ed0394038397dedacb7b34077eb58bffa342727e
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