Poland: priest convicted of molesting a seventeen-year-old at the rectory under a massage pretext
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2024-04-26
Upheld; final.
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parish priest
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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.
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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.
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- summons of a minor parishioner to the rectory on a pastoral pretext
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- reliable contemporaneous court reporting final appellate disposition 'Ksiądz skazany za molestowanie nieletniej. Wyrok już prawomocny', Radio Lublin, Apr. 2024.
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- https://radio.lublin.pl/2024/04/ksiadz-skazany-za-molestowanie-nieletniej-wyrok-juz-prawomocny/ Corpus classification: reliable-contemporaneous-court-reporting; evidentiary role: final-appellate-disposition. SHA-256 77afe3511cf04809fdb84cd11f276bf9b38a60e18073feed85307d30aff52605
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