 The reported incidences ranged over a period from the 1970s until the late 1990s and had been subject to police investigation.In July 2013 an Austrian court found Kremsmuenster Abbey director Alfons Mandorfer guilty in 24 documented cases of child abuse and sexual violence.The now laicized priest, who was accused of committing “sexual acts of differing intensity” on the pupils between 1973 and 1993, was sentenced to twelve years in prison.