Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Sensembra, Morazán, El Salvador · 2013

Israel Antonio Alvarez Bonilla: twenty-seven-year sentence for rape and harassment through pastoral authority

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

evangelical pastor, spiritual leader with access to a pastoral residence

Organization

unnamed evangelical church in Morazán

Archive classification

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The cited record identifies spiritual-leader authority, pastoral-house access, isolation of children, and exploitation of disability as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is evangelical pastor and spiritual leader with access to a pastoral residence.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2013-09-09 · public trial and sentence

San Francisco Gotera Trial Court, El Salvador. The court convicted Alvarez Bonilla of raping a seventeen-year-old with epilepsy and sexually harassing two sisters aged fourteen and twelve, imposing twenty years for rape and seven for harassment.

Documented coercion mechanisms

spiritual-leader authority
pastoral-house access
isolation of children
exploitation of disability

Cited record

Sources

prosecuting authority official annual report Fiscalía General de la República de El Salvador, Memoria de Labores 2013-2014, p. 67.: The official annual report records the conviction, three survivors, twenty-seven-year sentence, defendant's spiritual-leader status and use of times when the children were alone or at the pastoral residence.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.fiscalia.gob.sv/medios/memoria-2013-2014/files/assets/basic-html/page67.html Corpus classification: prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: official-annual-report. SHA-256 7f5f2cd182ebf45527614372609f7b86722e64c04efff5df53db67b698fa9985
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