Scotland: priest convicted of abusing three children and a trainee priest
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Appellate history
2019
Sentence reduced 9→8 years; conviction stands.
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
Catholic parish priest, formation supervisor of a seminarian
Organization
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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
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.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- pastoral authority over parish children
- formation authority over a trainee priest
Cited 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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- https://www.irvinetimes.com/news/16340000.paul-moore-priest-jailed/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 a6cdb976df41862c56bcf011c871cb7751e3339292f275a2732c47bf749bdac0
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- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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