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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Biłgoraj, Zamość, Poland · 2024

Poland: priest convicted of molesting a seventeen-year-old at the rectory under a massage pretext

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

parish priest

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The priest's office is what summoned a minor parishioner to the rectory and framed the contact as innocent — the setting and the pretext both flowed from his pastoral standing.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Spiritual healing or treatment

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2024-04-26 · conviction; upheld on appeal (final)

    Sąd Rejonowy w Zamościu; Sąd Okręgowy w Zamościu. A priest identified as Jarosław Z. invited a 17-year-old to the rectory in 2012 and, under the pretext of a massage, touched her intimately. She reported in 2021. The conviction was upheld on appeal on 26 April 2024: a suspended one-year sentence, a no-contact order, a five-year ban on work with minors, and 10,000 złoty to the victim.

Appellate history

  1. 2024-04-26 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • summons of a minor parishioner to the rectory on a pastoral pretext

Primary record

Sources

reliable contemporaneous court reporting final appellate disposition 'Ksiądz skazany za molestowanie nieletniej. Wyrok już prawomocny', Radio Lublin, Apr. 2024.

Reports the appellate confirmation and the orders imposed.

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