Papua New Guinea: Assemblies of God pastor sentenced for abusing a girl in his household care
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Convicted
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Assemblies of God pastor at Buvussi
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Assemblies of God, Buvussi
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The girl lived in the pastor's household under his care — pastoral office and dependency compounding, as the charging statute itself recognises.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
- Institutional obedience or isolation
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Proceedings
2019-02-15 · guilty plea and sentence
National Court of Papua New Guinea, Kimbe (Miviri J) — State v Don [2019] PGNC 23; N7689. Damien Don, 49, Assemblies of God pastor at Buvussi, pleaded guilty to sexual penetration of a thirteen-year-old girl under section 229A(1)(3) — the aggravated form for breach of trust, authority or dependency — and was sentenced on 15 February 2019 to 14 years in hard labour, two suspended. The court's sentencing rationale rested on his position: 'a Pastor in Church, a man of God who has abused that position'.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- the girl's residence in the pastor's household under his care
- the trust-authority-dependency element of the charged offence itself
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Sources
- official court judgment sentencing judgment State v Don [2019] PGNC 23; N7689 (National Court, Kimbe, 15 Feb. 2019).
The sentencing judgment.
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- https://www.paclii.org/pg/cases/PGNC/2019/23.html Corpus classification: official-court-judgment; evidentiary role: sentencing-judgment.
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