Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Orthodox Larissa, Greece · 2021

Greece: priest sentenced to eight years for abusing an 11-year-old, mother convicted as accomplice

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

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Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The defendant's status as the family's priest and material benefactor -- explicitly cited in the victim's own statement identifying him as 'a priest who helps us' -- was the operative mechanism the mother and priest jointly used to produce the child's compliance; the abuse would not have been unrefusable without that clerical position of trust.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2021-09-16 · First-instance conviction and sentencing

Mixed Jury Court of Larissa, Greece. Convicted; eight years' imprisonment (released pending health issues)

Primary record

Sources

in.gr (2021) 'Λάρισα - Κάθειρξη 8 ετών σε ιερέα που ασελγούσε σε ανήλικη - Ποινή και στη μητέρα για συνέργεια'. Available at: in.gr (Accessed 2026-07-19). English gloss: The Mixed Jury Court of Larissa sentenced an 83-year-old priest to eight years for indecent acts against an 11-year-old girl, exploiting the mother's dire economic situation and giving her material goods in exchange for handing the child over; the mother received five years as an accomplice.: in.gr (2021) 'Λάρισα - Κάθειρξη 8 ετών σε ιερέα που ασελγούσε σε ανήλικη - Ποινή και στη μητέρα για συνέργεια'. Available at: in.gr (Accessed 2026-07-19). English gloss: The Mixed Jury Court of Larissa sentenced an 83-year-old priest to eight years for indecent acts against an 11-year-old girl, exploiting the mother's dire economic situation and giving her material goods in exchange for handing the child over; the mother received five years as an accomplice.
Πρώτο Θέμα (2021) 'Λάρισα: 80χρονος ιερέας ασελγούσε σε 11χρονο κορίτσι - Καταδικάστηκε για συνέργεια η μητέρα του παιδιού'. Available at: protothema.gr (Accessed 2026-07-19). English gloss: prosecutor quoted the child's own words -- 'he is a priest and helps us, so he touches me' -- describing the coercive dynamic.: Πρώτο Θέμα (2021) 'Λάρισα: 80χρονος ιερέας ασελγούσε σε 11χρονο κορίτσι - Καταδικάστηκε για συνέργεια η μητέρα του παιδιού'. Available at: protothema.gr (Accessed 2026-07-19). English gloss: prosecutor quoted the child's own words -- 'he is a priest and helps us, so he touches me' -- describing the coercive dynamic.

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