Conviction New Age and human-potential movements Victoria, Australia · 2009

Stawingua Dresen: eight convictions for assaults during claimed chakra healing

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-proclaimed spiritual and chakra healer

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

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

Primary 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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