Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Orthodox Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia · 2018

Russia: Orthodox gymnasium director convicted on forty-six proven episodes against his pupils

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

hieromonk; director of the Svyato-Innokentyevskaya Orthodox gymnasium

Organization

Svyato-Innokentyevskaya Orthodox gymnasium, Yakutsk

Spiritual nexus

Pupils in a church school whose director held spiritual and administrative power over them at once.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2018-11-28 · conviction and sentence

Khangalassky District Court, Sakha Republic, Russia. Hieromonk Meletiy (Tkachenko), director of the Svyato-Innokentyevskaya Orthodox gymnasium in Yakutsk, was convicted on 28 November 2018 over the abuse of minor pupils across seven years: of eighty-seven alleged episodes, forty-six were proven at trial. He received seventeen years in a strict-regime colony with a psychiatric referral, denied guilt and appealed; the Yakutsk eparchy announced his defrocking.

combined spiritual and administrative authority over his own pupils in a church school

Primary record

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Lenta.ru: long-form account of the case and verdict.: National outlet's case report.

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