Angola: pastor sentenced to twelve years for drugging and raping a fourteen-year-old congregant
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pastor of the Igreja Pentecostal Efatá, Luanda
Organization
Igreja Pentecostal Efatá, Luanda
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CORE: a child of his own congregation, reached through the standing his church gave him.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
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2019-01-01 · conviction and sentence
13ª Secção, Tribunal Provincial de Luanda, Angola. João Pedro Maria, 44, pastor of the Igreja Pentecostal Efatá in Luanda, was convicted by the 13th Section of the Luanda Provincial Court of drugging a fourteen-year-old congregant with a spiked soft drink and raping her, and was sentenced to twelve years, stripped of pastoral rights for twelve years, and ordered to pay six million kwanzas in compensation.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- a spiked soft drink used to incapacitate a congregant child
- pastoral standing over her and her family
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Sources
- national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Angola24Horas: 'Quando pastores usam o rebanho para violações sexuais'.
Angolan outlet's report of the conviction and sentence.
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