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

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

hieromonk and rector of the Holy Prophet Elijah Church, Amurzet

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

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.

Evidence structure

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.

Primary record

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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