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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Orthodox Leningrad Region, Russia · 2018

Russian Orthodox priest Gleb Grozovsky convicted of abusing girls at a church holiday camp

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Russian Orthodox priest overseeing a church-run children's camp

Organization

Russian Orthodox Church-run holiday camp

Spiritual nexus

The victims were children attending a church-run religious camp under Grozovsky's direct pastoral supervision and authority as the officiating priest.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2018-11-29 · conviction and sentence

    Russian court, Leningrad Region. A Russian court convicted Orthodox priest Gleb Grozovsky of committing sexual acts with three girls under 14 at an Orthodox Church-run holiday camp he oversaw, and sentenced him to a long prison term (reported as 14 years in some accounts and 17 in others).

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral supervision of children at a church camp

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Russian Priest Sentenced Over Sexual Abuse of Children', The Moscow Times, 29 Nov. 2018.

Reports the conviction of the Orthodox priest for abusing girls at a church-run camp he supervised.

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