Conviction New religious movements Colliguay, Quilpué, Chile · 2012

Antares de la Luz: convictions after an apocalyptic group’s ritual killing of an infant

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

apocalyptic group leader, leader’s senior follower, parent within the group

Organization

Antares de la Luz group

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2017-03-06 · abbreviated criminal proceeding and sentencing

Guarantee Court of Quilpué. Natalia Guerra and Pablo Undurraga received five-year effective prison sentences; five accessories received three-year substitute sentences.

Appellate history

2017-04-18 · undefined

The court affirmed the effective prison sentences imposed on Guerra and Undurraga.

Documented coercion mechanisms

apocalyptic prophecy
leader control
ritual command
group concealment

Primary record

Sources

prosecuting authority conviction release Public Prosecutor’s Office of Chile, ‘Fiscalía obtuvo condena de la Secta de Antares de la Luz’ (Mar. 2, 2017).: Chile’s prosecuting authority records the convictions and the evidence that the group killed an infant during a 2012 end-times ritual after its leader declared the child infernal.
prosecuting authority sentencing release Public Prosecutor’s Office of Chile, ‘Fiscalía logra penas solicitadas contra la Secta de Antares de la Luz’ (Mar. 6, 2017).: The sentencing release identifies the effective five-year prison terms for Guerra and Undurraga and the substitute sentences imposed on five accessories.
prosecuting authority appellate disposition Public Prosecutor’s Office of Chile, ‘Corte mantiene penas de cárcel efectiva en caso Antares de la Luz’ (Apr. 18, 2017).: The release records the Valparaíso Court of Appeals’ decision affirming the effective prison sentences imposed on Guerra and Undurraga.

Contextual record

Background & context

Institutional and pattern-level sources on New religious movements, not specific to this one case.

ABC News (2005) ''Prince' of Former Cult Commits Murder-Suicide', ABC News, January. Available at: abcnews.go.com (Accessed: 15 July 2026).: The documented aftermath of the Children of God's abuse system: Ricky Rodriguez, raised as the movement's 'prince' and heir, 'stabbed his former nanny to death before committing suicide' in January 2005, after videotaping a statement about his childhood: 'How can you do that to kids and sleep at night?' Note: Rodriguez died the same day and was never prosecuted; this entry documents an outcome of the abuse system established in the Ward judgment above, not an adjudication — and his characterizations of individuals are his own claims, not court findings.
Wikipedia (2026) 'Richard Bandler' [summarizing the 1988 Santa Cruz murder trial and acquittal]. Available at: en.wikipedia.org (Accessed: 15 July 2026).: Richard Bandler, co-founder of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, was acquitted — that verdict leads this entry, which documents a trial, not a guilt. 'In 1986, Corine Ann Christensen... a former girlfriend of Bandler's friend and cocaine dealer, James Marino, was shot dead in her Santa Cruz townhouse with a .357 magnum owned by Bandler. Authorities charged Bandler with her murder. Bandler testified that he had been at Christensen's house, but that Marino had shot Christensen. After a short deliberation, a jury found Bandler not guilty.' The trial — and the contemporaneous reporting around it — remains the most extensively documented court event in the history of the human-potential movement's founder generation, and a window into the coercive-influence milieu from which NLP marketing later grew. Bandler was and remains legally innocent of the killing.

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