Scotland: Fort Augustus monk convicted after extradition from Australia
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
Benedictine monk and teacher
Organization
Fort Augustus Abbey School
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Resident pupils under a monk-teacher's pastoral and disciplinary control at a monastic boarding school.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
- Institutional obedience or isolation
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Proceedings
2020-01-01 · guilty plea after extradition; SCAI institutional findings
Scottish courts; Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (Case Study 5). Denis Alexander ('Father Chrysostom'), a former Benedictine monk and teacher at Fort Augustus Abbey School, admitted two charges of indecent behaviour against boys in the 1970s after extradition from Australia in 2020 — a prosecution prompted by a BBC documentary. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry separately found the school a site of repeated abuse.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- monk-teacher control over resident pupils
Cited record
Sources
- official statutory inquiry report inquiry and conviction report Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, Case Study 5 (Fort Augustus), with Scotsman court reporting of the 2020 plea.
The inquiry's findings and the conviction after extradition.
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- https://www.childabuseinquiry.scot/evidence/case-study-no-5 Corpus classification: official-statutory-inquiry-report; evidentiary role: inquiry-and-conviction-report. SHA-256 c2981cfd668e4471cfb8ef92f60b0a590df0b56fad5c1b1d63cb006fd74403cd
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