Other Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Ampleforth and Downside, England, United Kingdom · 2018

IICSA: ten men convicted or cautioned for abuse at two Benedictine schools

Record class

Institutional event

Evidence status

Official finding

Authority role

Benedictine monks as teachers, housemasters and confessors

Organization

Ampleforth Abbey and College, Downside Abbey and School, English Benedictine Congregation

Spiritual nexus

The inquiry's core finding: monastic spiritual authority and boarding custody fused into a single inescapable structure for resident boys.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2018-08-01 · statutory inquiry report

Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), United Kingdom. IICSA found that ten men, mostly monks, had been convicted or cautioned for sexual offences against children at Ampleforth and Downside over decades, and that monks used their position as spiritual fathers, confessors and disciplinarians to reach boarding pupils who had no practical ability to refuse or report.

Primary record

official statutory inquiry report inquiry report IICSA, 'Ampleforth and Downside (English Benedictine Congregation) Investigation Report' (Aug. 2018).: The statutory inquiry's findings on the two schools.

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