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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 2018

Scotland: priest convicted of abusing three children and a trainee priest

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic parish priest, formation supervisor of a seminarian

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Parish children under his pastoral office, and a seminarian whose path to priesthood ran through him — the same dual structure as the Belgian and Romanian seminary cases.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2018-01-01 · conviction; sentence reduced on appeal, conviction stands

    High Court in Glasgow, Scotland. Fr Paul Moore was convicted at the High Court in Glasgow of sexually abusing three children and a trainee priest across parish, school and leisure settings between 1977 and 1996, and jailed for nine years — reduced to eight on a sentence-only appeal, with the conviction upheld. His bishop testified that Moore had admitted an attraction to boys.

Appellate history

  1. 2019 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral authority over parish children
  • formation authority over a trainee priest

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Priest Paul Moore jailed for nine years', Irvine Times (2018).

Reports the conviction, the bishop's testimony and the sentence.

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