Russia: Orthodox gymnasium director convicted on forty-six proven episodes against his pupils
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hieromonk; director of the Svyato-Innokentyevskaya Orthodox gymnasium
Organization
Svyato-Innokentyevskaya Orthodox gymnasium, Yakutsk
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Pupils in a church school whose director held spiritual and administrative power over them at once.
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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.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- combined spiritual and administrative authority over his own pupils in a church school
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- national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Lenta.ru: long-form account of the case and verdict.
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