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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Joliette, Quebec, Canada · 2021

Canada: Clerics of St Viator priest convicted for abuse at Quebec religious schools

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

priest-teacher of the Clercs de Saint-Viateur

Organization

Clercs de Saint-Viateur

Spiritual nexus

The victims were pupils at the order's institutions, under priest-teachers' combined religious and disciplinary authority.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2021-07-01 · guilty plea and sentence

    Quebec court (Justice Bertrand St-Arnaud), Canada. Fr Jean Pilon of the Clercs de Saint-Viateur pleaded guilty to 12 of 26 counts of gross indecency for abuse of children at Quebec religious educational institutions between 1961 and 1989, and was sentenced to three and a half years on a joint recommendation. He was one of five elderly members of the order arrested in a coordinated 2020 police action.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral and disciplinary authority over pupils at religious institutions, 1961–1989

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Globe and Mail, 'Quebec priest sentenced to 3.5 years' (2021).

Reports the plea, counts and sentence.

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