Conviction Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Traditional healing practitioners Gualaceo, Azuay, Ecuador · 2017

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

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

curandero, alternative-healing practitioner

Organization

unnamed alternative-medicine center in Gualaceo

Archive classification

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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

Cited 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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Source and tier basis: https://www.fiscalia.gob.ec/curandero-fue-sentenciado-a-29-anos-por-violacion-a-adolescente-en-gualaceo/ Corpus classification: prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 d02032286070b4dd9d8fbd985a7bdca8af8edf52b89ff177db3bfcb2c8a9c43d
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