Sweden: priest convicted of child rape of his own confirmand
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
Church of Sweden priest instructing confirmands
Organization
Church of Sweden, Diocese of Uppsala
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The victim was the priest's own confirmand — a child whose admission to full church membership ran through his instruction, the same initiatory-authority structure as altar-server and seminary cases elsewhere in this corpus.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
- Ritual, oath, or initiation
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2015-01-01 · conviction and sentence (appeal status unconfirmed)
Swedish court, Uppsala. A priest in his thirties in the Uppsala diocese was convicted of rape of a child after a sexual relationship with one of his own confirmands — a minor preparing for confirmation under his direct instruction. He was sentenced to two and a half years; the court noted his impending defrocking.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- direct religious instruction of a minor preparing for confirmation
Cited record
Sources
- national public broadcaster verdict report 'Präst döms för våldtäkt mot barn', SVT Nyheter (Uppsala).
Sweden's public broadcaster reporting the conviction of the priest for offences against his confirmand.
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- Source and tier basis
- https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/uppsala/falls-for-sex-med-konfirmand Corpus classification: national-public-broadcaster; evidentiary role: verdict-report. SHA-256 11671e50c2e531407aa2ba6778a00282515f06159e9908707dd7d3439a35d9b2
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- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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