František Merta
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František Merta caused a scandal in the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

 when, as a Catholic priest in the Olomouc Archdiocese, he was convicted in 2000 of indecent assault of 20 boys dating back to 1995.

The case

Merta was accused by a theology student, Vaclav Novak, and was sentenced by a criminal court to a two-year suspended sentence. The archbishop of Olomouc, Jan Graubner
Jan Graubner
Jan Graubner is the Roman Catholic archbishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic. On 23 June 1973, he was ordained as a priest. On 17 March 1990, he was named auxiliary bishop of Olomouc and titular bishop of Tagaria. The principal consecrator at Graubner's ordination as a bishop on 7 April 1990 was...

, was accused of moving Merta to different posts in an attempt to cover up the case. Merta is still employed by the church, though according to a spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Olomouc, he has no contact with children, and works as a civil employee in the archdiocese archives.

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