Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Patarrá, San José Province, Costa Rica · 2023

Mauricio Víquez: final twenty-year sentence and civil finding against church authorities

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Disposition and response

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Appellate history

2022-10-11

The criminal conviction and sentence were affirmed.
2023-04-21

The chamber rejected the remaining defense challenges and the sentence became final.

Record class

Institutional event

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest, parish authority, church officials responsible for internal complaints

Organization

Archdiocese of San José, Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The cited record identifies parish access to a child, economic vulnerability, clerical authority, and institutional concealment found in civil court as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is Catholic priest, parish authority, and church officials responsible for internal complaints.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2022-03-30 · trial judgment

Desamparados Criminal Court, Costa Rica. The court convicted Víquez of aggravated rape and sexual abuse of an eleven-year-old child and imposed consecutive terms totaling twenty years.
2022-10-11 · appeal judgment

Criminal Appeals Court of Costa Rica. The appeals court affirmed the conviction and sentence.
2023-04-21 · cassation rejected

Criminal Cassation Chamber of Costa Rica. The chamber rejected the defense challenges, leaving the twenty-year sentence final.
2022-08-23 · civil judgment

Second Collegiate Civil Court of First Instance of San José, Costa Rica. The court held the Episcopal Conference, the Archdiocese's temporalities and Archbishop José Rafael Quirós civilly liable for concealment and moral harm in a separate survivor's claim.

Documented coercion mechanisms

parish access to a child
economic vulnerability
clerical authority
institutional concealment found in civil court

Cited record

Sources

court reporting final appellate disposition El Observador CR, 'Condena de 20 años contra exsacerdote Mauricio Víquez por delitos sexuales queda en firme' (Apr. 21, 2023).: Court reporting records the rejected cassation challenges, final twenty-year sentence, two sustained crimes and prior appellate affirmance.
court reporting civil finding CRHoy, 'Tribunal condena a la Iglesia Católica y a obispo por abusos sexuales de Mauricio Víquez a menor' (Aug. 23, 2022).: Contemporaneous civil-court reporting records the first-instance concealment and moral-harm judgment against the Episcopal Conference, Archdiocesan temporalities and Archbishop Quirós and distinguishes the civil claimant from the criminal case.
high quality reporting trial disposition El País, 'Costa Rica condena a 20 años de cárcel a Mauricio Víquez, un sacerdote que violó a un niño' (Mar. 31, 2022).: Contemporaneous trial reporting records the conviction, sentence, parish context, extradition from Mexico and the separate concealment allegations then before the civil court.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://observador.cr/condena-de-20-anos-contra-exsacerdote-mauricio-viquez-por-delitos-sexuales-queda-en-firme-sala-iii-rechaza-apelaciones/ Corpus classification: court-reporting; evidentiary role: final-appellate-disposition. SHA-256 c24907a312f86a08336862ae2385a230d82769f36291c49b04fd8fa81b3a298d
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://crhoy.com/nacionales/tribunal-condena-a-la-iglesia-catolica-y-a-obispo-por-abusos-sexuales-de-mauricio-viquez-a-menor/ Corpus classification: court-reporting; evidentiary role: civil-finding. SHA-256 8b53bc53c8e6e9c4a3432dee2ac2a8b529ada88ddc0de45a0b2f080b577ecac8
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://elpais.com/sociedad/2022-03-31/costa-rica-condena-a-20-anos-de-carcel-a-mauricio-viquez-un-sacerdote-que-violo-a-un-nino.html Corpus classification: high-quality-reporting; evidentiary role: trial-disposition. SHA-256 082e0cf7af4a65323a26b1758f39685be5fd568d8053360f12a70ea927bc4b99
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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