Conviction Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Energy healing and therapeutic bodywork Victoria, Australia · 2009

Stawingua Dresen: eight convictions for assaults during claimed chakra healing

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-proclaimed spiritual and chakra healer

Organization

No organization assigned

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The cited record identifies chakra-healing pretext, treatment trust, and unregulated practitioner authority as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is self-proclaimed spiritual and chakra healer.

Spiritual healing or treatment

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2009-09-07 · criminal judgment and sentence

County Court of Victoria. Convicted of eight counts of indecent assault against six clients; sentenced to three years and three months with a two-year non-parole period.

Documented coercion mechanisms

chakra-healing pretext
treatment trust
unregulated practitioner authority

Cited record

Sources

high quality reporting sentencing report ABC News, ‘“Charlatan healer” jailed over client assaults’ (Sept. 7, 2009).: The Australian public broadcaster's contemporaneous court report records the eight convictions, sentence, six clients and Dresen's use of purported spiritual or chakra treatment during the assaults.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-09-07/charlatan-healer-jailed-over-client-assaults/1420074 Corpus classification: high-quality-reporting; evidentiary role: sentencing-report. SHA-256 6cf64a85dc4f30ad3d1c14334ae441a0d0e3f6b7d918be73a1edcf91490b4b0a
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