Julio Cesar Garcia: Belize Court of Appeal affirms church-member abuse conviction
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Appellate history
2016-03-10
The conviction and concurrent twelve-year sentences were affirmed.
Record class
Core record
Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
self-described pastor, acting spiritual leader at Franks Eddy Baptist Church
Organization
Franks Eddy Baptist Church
Archive classification
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The cited record identifies claimed church authority, access to a child church member, and use of church premises as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is self-described pastor and acting spiritual leader at Franks Eddy Baptist Church.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
- Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Evidence structure
Proceedings
Date in cited record · jury conviction and sentence
Supreme Court of Belize. Garcia was convicted on two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with an eleven-year-old church member and received concurrent twelve-year prison terms.
2016-03-10 · appeal dismissed
Court of Appeal of Belize. The Court of Appeal dismissed Garcia's appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- claimed church authority
- access to a child church member
- use of church premises
Cited record
Sources
- court reporting appellate disposition News 5 Belize, 'Pastor's Sentence for Sexual Offences Upheld by Appeal Court' (Mar. 10, 2016).
Contemporaneous appellate reporting records the dismissed appeal, two convictions, concurrent twelve-year sentences, one incident inside the church and the Baptist Association's denial that Garcia was an accredited pastor.
- contemporaneous reporting appellate corroboration 7 News Belize / BelizeNews.com, 'Child Abusing Pastor Sent Back To Jail By Court of Appeal' (Mar. 10, 2016).
A second contemporaneous account describes Garcia as the acting spiritual leader, identifies the child as an eleven-year-old church member and corroborates the affirmed conviction and sentence.
Source provenance
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- https://archive.channel5belize.com/?p=126214 Corpus classification: court-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-disposition. SHA-256 ce03c51fd76ec59766a8ed519f318baaf8f47d1dd238319acfb064b5433d9cc9
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- https://www.belizenews.com/160320.html Corpus classification: contemporaneous-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-corroboration. SHA-256 c9c8febdabc7fa946da9cbe39e694ce96cc6501b0565b9c961b286cce0854dcc
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