Poland: priest's six-year sentence for molesting a minor confirmed; sourced to the prosecutor's office
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Appellate history
2024
Defence appeal rejected in full; final.
Record class
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
priest (wikariusz)
Organization
No organization assigned
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The victim was a minor under the priest's pastoral influence; the grooming ran through the standing his office gave him.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2024-01-01 · conviction; appeal rejected (final)
Polish courts; appeal rejected by Sąd Okręgowy w Ostrołęce. A priest identified as Łukasz R. was convicted of sexually molesting a minor, plying him with alcohol and showing him pornography between 2011 and 2016. He was sentenced to six years, a ten-year ban on work with minors, a no-contact order and 50,000 złoty in compensation. The regional court rejected the defence appeal in full.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- pastoral influence over a minor student
- alcohol and pornography used in grooming
Cited record
Sources
- official prosecuting authority conviction release Prokuratura Okręgowa w Ostrołęce, 'Ksiądz skazany o przestępstwa seksualne przeciwko małoletnim' (2024).
The prosecuting authority's own statement of the conviction, sentence and orders.
Source provenance
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- Source and tier basis
- https://www.gov.pl/web/po-ostroleka/ksiadz-skazany-o-przestepstwa-seksualne-przeciwko-maloletnim Corpus classification: official-prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: conviction-release. SHA-256 319ead18eb9cd856b2a3bf658f7dcbe0910988d9459574fc1ae1b5fc5c312ef1
- Retrieval
- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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