Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany · 2024

Germany: Augsburg diocese priest's conviction for abusing a dependent becomes final on appeal

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic priest of the Diocese of Augsburg

Organization

Diocese of Augsburg

Spiritual nexus

The victim was a person under the priest's pastoral care, within the authority relationship his clerical office in the diocese created.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2024-03-01 · conviction; final after the Bavarian Supreme Court rejected further appeal

Amtsgericht Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm (first instance) and Landgericht Ingolstadt (appeal), Bavaria, Germany. A priest of the Diocese of Augsburg was convicted of sexual abuse of a person in his care. The Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm district court sentenced him in March 2023 to eight months' imprisonment; the Ingolstadt regional court modified this on appeal in March 2024 to a suspended sentence with conditions, including €5,000 payable to the victim and €5,000 to charity, plus mandatory continued therapy. On 3 September 2024 the Bavarian Supreme Court in Munich rejected his further appeal as unfounded, making the conviction final. The priest was relieved of his duties; an ecclesiastical investigation continued separately.

2024-09-03

Bavarian Supreme Court (Bayerisches Oberstes Landesgericht) rejected the priest's appeal as unfounded; conviction final.

Primary record

religious press final disposition report katholisch.de: Missbrauchsprozess: Gericht verwirft Revision von Augsburger Priester.: Report of the Bavarian Supreme Court's rejection of the priest's appeal, making the conviction final.
religious press final disposition report DOMRADIO.DE: Gericht verwirft Priester-Revision im Missbrauchsprozess.: Corroborating report of the same final appellate disposition.

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