Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Gualaceo, Azuay, Ecuador · 2017

Gualaceo curandero: twenty-nine-year sentence after a false healing claim and death threat

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

curandero, alternative-healing practitioner

Organization

unnamed alternative-medicine center in Gualaceo

Spiritual nexus

The cited record identifies false illness diagnosis, threat of death without compliance, healing-treatment trust, and authority over an adolescent patient as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is curandero and alternative-healing practitioner.

Spiritual healing or treatment
Threatened spiritual consequence

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2017-01-18 · written first-instance judgment

Criminal Guarantees Tribunal of Azuay, Ecuador. The tribunal convicted José C. of rape, sentenced him to twenty-nine years and four months and ordered US$5,000 in reparation.

Documented coercion mechanisms

false illness diagnosis
threat of death without compliance
healing-treatment trust
authority over an adolescent patient

Primary record

Sources

prosecuting authority judgment report Fiscalía General del Estado, 'Curandero fue sentenciado a 29 años por violación a adolescente en Gualaceo' (Jan. 19, 2017).: Ecuador's prosecution service records the written judgment, sentence, reparation order and evidence. It states that the adolescent was brought to an alternative-medicine center seeking help for her mother and that the curandero falsely said she was ill and could die unless she did everything he instructed.

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