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

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

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

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

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

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

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 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.

Appellate history

  1. 2018-04-13 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

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

Primary record

Sources

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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