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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Uribe Kosta, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain · 2023

Spain: Bilbao diocese priest's conviction for abusing scout monitors at parish summer camps, unappealed and final

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest, former vicar of the Uribe Kosta parish grouping, Diocese of Bilbao

Organization

Diocese of Bilbao

Spiritual nexus

The victims were scout troop monitors under the parish's own scouting programme, within the pastoral authority the vicar held over parish youth activities.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2023-07-19 · conviction, final (unappealed)

    Audiencia Provincial de Burgos, Spain. A former parish vicar of the Uribe Kosta grouping in the Diocese of Bilbao was convicted on 19 July 2023 of sexually abusing two female scout troop monitors during summer camps in 2015 and 2016 — one a minor, one an adult. He received fourteen months' imprisonment for the abuse of the minor and an eighteen-month fine for the abuse of the adult, with €4,000 compensation to each victim and the Diocese of Bilbao declared subsidiarily liable. He did not appeal. The diocese had already removed him from public ministry on 4 December 2018 and reported the matter to prosecutors three days later, before the victims' own complaint was filed.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • parish vicar's authority over scout troop monitors under parish-run scouting activities

Primary record

Sources

regional newspaper verdict and sentencing report El Diario (Euskadi): Un cura vizcaíno, condenado por abusar de dos monitoras de los 'scouts'.

Report of the conviction, sentence, diocesan liability finding, and the diocese's own prior removal and 2018 report to prosecutors.

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