Emmanuel Gordon: eight-year sentence in absentia for abuse during spiritual education
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
religious educator, spiritual authority over a child congregant
Organization
unnamed religious congregation in Martinique
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The cited record identifies spiritual education, religious trust, and access to a child congregant as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is religious educator and spiritual authority over a child congregant.
- Other spiritual authority or belief
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2014-02-01 · conviction and sentence in absentia
criminal court in Martinique, France. Gordon was convicted in absentia of sexual offenses against a female congregant and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. The contemporaneous report records an international arrest warrant issued on April 25, 2013.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- spiritual education
- religious trust
- access to a child congregant
Cited record
Sources
- court reporting judgment report France-Antilles Martinique, 'J'ai été la victime d'un prédateur' (2014).
Contemporaneous reporting records Gordon's in-absentia conviction, eight-year sentence and international arrest warrant and states that the abuse began when he was responsible for the child's spiritual education.
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- Source and tier basis
- https://www.martinique.franceantilles.fr/actualite/faitsdivers/jai-ete-la-victime-dun-predateur-595810.php Corpus classification: court-reporting; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 47acfdcb015404a56bc80912814d07268a39e7d31deaa81d3a827bf043ca29bf
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