Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Mansa, Luapula, Zambia · 2015

Zambia: pastor jailed 20 years for assaulting a girl brought to him for prayer

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village church pastor

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The girl was brought to the defendant specifically for prayer after a seizure — she was placed in his hands as a spiritual healer, and that is the relationship the assault exploited.

Spiritual healing or treatment
Pastoral or clerical authority

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Proceedings

2015-04-07 · conviction; committed to the High Court for sentence

Magistrate Court, Mansa; High Court, Mansa, Zambia. Julius Kabaso, 40, a pastor at a village church in Kaole Village, Chief Chimese, Mansa District, was convicted of sexually assaulting a girl under 17 on 17 September 2014 after she was brought to him for prayer following an epileptic seizure. Judge Charles Chanda of the Mansa High Court sentenced him to 20 years' imprisonment with hard labour.

Documented coercion mechanisms

girl brought to him specifically for prayer after a seizure
healing authority over a person seeking spiritual help

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reliable contemporaneous court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Pastor jailed 20 years for rape', Zambian Eye, 20 May 2015, reporting ZANIS.: Zambian outlet reporting the conviction, the High Court sentence, and the prayer-for-healing circumstance in which the assault occurred.

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Source and tier basis: https://zambianeye.com/pastor-jailed-20-years-for-rape/ Corpus classification: reliable-contemporaneous-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 7da9cc18d0b526d931d1c5489264880af8685f6ba7c03b2928289918a3a61430
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