Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Uppsala, Sweden · 2015

Sweden: priest convicted of child rape of his own confirmand

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Church of Sweden priest instructing confirmands

Organization

Church of Sweden, Diocese of Uppsala

Spiritual nexus

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

Primary 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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