Pedocriminality in the Church: a Former Abbot Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Rape in the Hautes-Pyrénées

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Jean-Claude Mercier, a former 83-year-old abbot, was sentenced to eight years in prison for having raped a minor in 1997.

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Jean-Claude Mercier, ex-abbé excluded from the Catholic Church at the end of 2022, was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for rape of minors committed between 1997 and 2000 Jean-Claude Mercier, ex-abbé excluded

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Jean-Claude Mercier, 83, was found guilty of rape of a minor while running Tarasteix Abbey, north of Tarbes, from the 1970s.

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He was accused of having raped a minor from 1997 in Tarasteix. Jean-Claude Mercier, former abbot excluded from the Catholic Church at the end of 2022, was sentenced on Monday to eight years in prison for rape on

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The High Pyrenees Criminal Court sentenced Jean-Claude Mercier to eight years in prison for rape of a minor.

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Excluded from the Catholic Church at the end of 2022 and charged in 2023 for rape of minors in the late 1990s, the ex-abbé Jean-Claude Mercier, 83 years old, was sentenced on Monday 20 October to eight years in prison by the criminal court of the Hautes-Pyrénées. His sentence can be adjusted to his age.