František Merta

František Merta ( * 1951 ) is a former Catholic priest from the Czech Republic, who was convicted in 2001 of res judicata for abuse of minors ( altar ).

These acts are done in the communities Napajedla Spytihněv Pačlavice and Holešov, there were at least five injured. He denied his guilt, but the court was of identical statements of witnesses from different locations. The two-year prison sentence was suspended. The archbishop January Graubner has assigned him a job in the archive.

The lawsuit was filed by the theology student, Václav Novák in May 2000, simultaneously against the archbishop, whom he accused that he knew of the child abuse. Prior Novák tried to solve the matter with the archbishop, but was not successful.

The archbishop moved Merta always from one end of his diocese to the other when the protests were too loud. Later he defended himself in the press that he had this information only second-hand, and that it therefore was not his business to file the complaint. The police closed the criminal case against the Archbishop as irrelevant.

Václav Novák was then excluded from the faculty of theology, because it had not been able, in time to store the appropriate tests.

The matter has attracted the attention of most mass media in the Czech Republic.

• Roman Catholic priest ( 20th century)
• Czech
• Born in 1951
• Man