Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Orthodox Amurzet, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia · 2021

Russia: village rector sentenced to eighteen years for abusing fifty-three boys over twelve years

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Convicted

Authority role

hieromonk and rector of the Holy Prophet Elijah Church, Amurzet

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He was the rector of the only church in the village — which supplied the access to boys drawn into parish and altar life, and the silence afterwards.

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Proceedings

2021-11-08 · conviction and sentence

Court in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. Hieromonk Spiridon, in the world Yuri Abramov, rector of the Holy Prophet Elijah Church in Amurzet, was convicted on 8 November 2021 of the sexual abuse of fifty-three boys over twelve years, from 2007 to 2019, and sentenced to eighteen years in a strict-regime colony with two years' movement restriction and an eight-year ban on pedagogical activity. A co-defendant, the church's bell-ringer Sergey Moos, received twelve years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

parish and altar-server life as the route to boys
rectorship of the village's only church supplying both access and silence

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Lenta.ru: report of the eighteen-year sentence.: National outlet's court report.
national newspaper court reporting verdict report RBC: corroborating report.: National business daily's report.

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Source and tier basis: https://lenta.ru/news/2021/11/08/pedifill/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 97796957c626ad28c692476171526e3e4a11cb08f54bd219e66705c96a5296c9
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Source and tier basis: https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/6189059c9a7947413d15fe6d Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-report.
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