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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Daegu, South Korea · 2021

South Korea: priest sentenced to three years for molesting a nine-year-old parishioner in the rectory

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic parish priest

Organization

Archdiocese of Daegu

Spiritual nexus

The child was a parishioner of the defendant's own parish, and the offences occurred inside the rectory to which his office gave him private access.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2021-04-01 · conviction and sentence

    Daegu District Court, South Korea. A priest of the Daegu Archdiocese was convicted of twice molesting a nine-year-old parishioner at the parish rectory in 2014, having brought the child there on the pretext of watching a film and afterwards using gifts to secure silence. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment; the archdiocese separately suspended him from ministry for five years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral access to a child of the parish
  • child lured to the rectory on a pretext, then given gifts to secure silence

Primary record

Sources

institutional reporting verdict report 진실탐사그룹 셜록 (Sherlock investigative group), reporting on the conviction of a Daegu Archdiocese priest for molesting a nine-year-old parishioner (2021).

Korean investigative outlet reporting the conviction, the three-year sentence, the rectory setting, and the archdiocese's separate suspension.

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