Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Orthodox Priozersk, Leningrad Oblast, Russia · 2018

Russia: priest convicted of abusing children at Orthodox camps — appeal denied

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Appellate history

2018-04-13

Appeal denied; verdict in force.

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

priest of the Gatchina and Luga eparchy; spiritual leader at Orthodox children's camps

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No organization assigned

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Parents handed their children to a camp's spiritual leader because of what he was — the clerical standing is what made the entrusting possible.

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Proceedings

2018-01-17 · conviction; appeal denied — verdict in force

Priozersk City Court; Leningrad Oblast Court, Russia. Gleb Grozovsky, a priest of the Gatchina and Luga eparchy, was convicted on 17 January 2018 of violent sexual acts against three minors at Orthodox children's camps on Konevets Island and on Kos in Greece in 2009 and 2013, and sentenced to fourteen years in a strict-regime colony with one year's restriction. The Leningrad Oblast Court upheld the verdict on 13 April 2018.

Documented coercion mechanisms

children entrusted to him by parents precisely because of his clerical standing
camp settings on Konevets Island and in Greece

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national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Meduza: report of the fourteen-year sentence.: Independent outlet's court report.
legal news court reporting appellate outcome report RAPSI: appellate confirmation.: Legal news agency's appeal report.

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Source and tier basis: https://meduza.io/feature/2018/01/17/svyaschennik-gleb-grozovskiy-poluchil-14-let-po-obvineniyu-v-pedofilii-ranshe-on-byl-duhovnikom-futbolistov-zenita Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 724bb773a0edb0429b844ca3d088b681ac9d921f04b648dcc221df04d151952e
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Source and tier basis: https://www.rapsinews.ru/judicial_news/20180413/282494373.html Corpus classification: legal-news-court-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-outcome-report. SHA-256 1218a74ba534eda600019f80ce93e2e64829dcfcbfc926e8b161d9047492624f
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