Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Soyapango, San Salvador, El Salvador · 2018

El Salvador: pastor sentenced to 20 years for the continued rape of a thirteen-year-old from his church

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Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor of an evangelical church

Organization

Iglesia Nueva Esperanza, Soyapango

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The complainant attended the church where the defendant served as pastor; the relationship began through that congregational role and the trust it carried.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Religious marriage or family control

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Proceedings

2018-06-07 · conviction and sentence

Salvadoran criminal court, San Salvador. David Alonso Torres Rosales, pastor at the Nueva Esperanza church in Soyapango, was sentenced to 20 years for aggravated rape of a minor in continued form. He groomed a 13-year-old girl who attended his church, telling her she was his girlfriend and paying her for repeated encounters at a motel between July 2016 and February 2017.

Documented coercion mechanisms

grooming a child congregant by calling her his girlfriend
payments made to her for repeated encounters

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Cárcel para pastor evangélico por abusar sexualmente de una menor', elsalvador.com, 2018.: Salvadoran paper of record reporting the 20-year sentence and the grooming of a child from the defendant's congregation.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/nacional/carcel-para-pastor-evangelico-por-abusar-sexualmente-de-una-menor/488701/2018/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 13cd57232b678718e2c5703e0094138bf210f310936f07c88656ef13dfe05558
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