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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Orthodox Lipin Bor, Vologda Oblast, Russia · 2019

Russia: rector convicted after eighteen months of indecent acts against a twelve-year-old parishioner

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

rector of the Holy Trinity church, Lipin Bor

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

A parishioner and his own son's classmate — the parish role converted into household trust.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2019-04-12 · guilty plea and sentence

    Court in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Alexei Mokievsky, rector of the Holy Trinity church at Lipin Bor, was convicted on 12 April 2019 of eighteen months of indecent acts against a twelve-year-old parishioner between 2017 and 2018, together with producing and distributing pornographic material — he filmed the child and sent her pornography over social media. He pleaded guilty and received four and a half years; he was suspended after his October 2018 arrest and defrocked in early 2019.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • parish standing giving him household-level trust — the victim was a parishioner and his son's classmate

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Lenta.ru: report of the conviction and sentence.

National outlet's court report.

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