Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent São Paulo State, Brazil · 2016

São Paulo pastor: unanimous conviction for assault presented as purification

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Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

evangelical pastor, trusted spiritual leader

Organization

unnamed evangelical church in São Paulo State

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The cited record identifies purification claim, pastoral counseling confidence, religious submission, and secrecy request as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is evangelical pastor and trusted spiritual leader.

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

Evidence structure

Proceedings

Date in cited record · unanimous appellate judgment reported January 2016

Court of Justice of São Paulo, Fourth Criminal Law Chamber, Brazil. The chamber convicted the pastor of indecent assault by fraud and imposed two years and eleven months in semi-open custody for two acts against a fifteen-year-old congregant.

Documented coercion mechanisms

purification claim
pastoral counseling confidence
religious submission
secrecy request

Cited record

Sources

appellate court appellate judgment report Court of Justice of São Paulo, 'Pastor é condenado por molestar fiel' (Jan. 9, 2016).: The official court report records the unanimous appellate conviction and sentence. It describes a pastor who learned of a fifteen-year-old congregant's relationship problems in confidence, used her religious submission and a purported need for purification to induce two sexual acts, and later asked her to conceal them.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.tjsp.jus.br/Noticias/noticia?Id=29136&codigoNoticia=29136 Corpus classification: appellate-court; evidentiary role: appellate-judgment-report. SHA-256 896ada90074ac39cf4f45479478a15e430c00a8e10b0b047277ea701bcc316f5
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