Netherlands (1954): friar convicted of abusing three boys of about eight
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Authority role
frater of a religious congregation
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Three eight-year-olds under a religious congregation's frater — the earliest of the Deetman convictions the corpus now carries.
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Proceedings
1954-01-01 · conviction and sentence
Dutch trial court. A frater of a religious congregation, recorded in the Deetman Report under the code CMM4, was convicted in 1954 of sexual acts with three boys of about eight years old over roughly a year, and sentenced to nine months less time served plus four months suspended.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- religious-congregation authority over young children
Cited record
Sources
- official commission finding commission conviction record Deetman Report (Netherlands, 2011), via the Internet Archive.
Commission report recording the conviction and sentence.
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- https://archive.org/details/RapportDeetmanSeksueelMisbruikRk Corpus classification: official-commission-finding; evidentiary role: commission-conviction-record. SHA-256 28730da9723b0e0a4d0b142e5d16b3eaf6f961a0e8dd9cf81e6620f0186f6354
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