Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Mar del Plata, Argentina · 2019

Monte Sión: affirmed convictions for trafficking, servitude and sexual abuse

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Disposition and response

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Appellate history

In 2022 the chamber rejected both defenses' cassation appeals and affirmed the convictions and sentences.
2025-04-22

A sentence-execution order addressed Hurtado's educational-credit request while he was serving the sentence. The order did not revisit the merits.

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-styled apostle and anointed leader, necessary participant in the trafficking scheme

Organization

Monte Sión Apostolic and Prophetic Ministry

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The cited record identifies claimed divine authority, scriptural control, threats of divine punishment, isolation, leader worship, economic control, forced labor, surveillance, and sexual abuse as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is self-styled apostle and anointed leader and necessary participant in the trafficking scheme.

Ritual, oath, or initiation
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2019-12-23 · unanimous trial judgment and sentence

Federal Oral Court of Mar del Plata, Argentina. The court sentenced Isaías Nelson Hurtado to twenty-four years and six months for aggravated penetrative sexual abuse of four women, trafficking and reduction to servitude involving twenty people, including two minors, and coercion. Patricia Soledad Padilla received ten years as a necessary participant in the trafficking offenses.

Documented coercion mechanisms

claimed divine authority
scriptural control
threats of divine punishment
isolation
leader worship
economic control
forced labor
surveillance
sexual abuse

Cited record

Sources

prosecuting authority judgment report Ministerio Público Fiscal de la Nación, 'Mar del Plata: 24 años y medio de prisión para el líder de una secta religiosa' (Dec. 23, 2019).: Argentina's federal prosecution service records the unanimous judgment, the two sentences, twenty trafficking and servitude victims, four sexual-abuse victims and the court's findings about claimed divine authority, coercive persuasion, isolation, surveillance, economic exploitation and threats of divine punishment.
contemporaneous court reporting appellate disposition report Qué Digital, 'Casación confirmó la condena contra el pastor Isaías Hurtado y su pareja' (July 4, 2022).: Contemporaneous local court reporting identifies the three judges of Chamber I and records their rejection of the defendants' cassation appeals, leaving the 2019 convictions and sentences affirmed.
court sentence execution order Federal Oral Criminal Court of Mar del Plata, Hurtado, Isaías Nelson, sentence-execution order, FMP 1187/2014/TO1/31 (Apr. 22, 2025).: The official federal court order records Hurtado's current sentence-execution proceeding and resolves an educational-credit request. It confirms continuing administration of the sentence without relitigating guilt.

Source provenance

Source access and integrity log

This log records source retrieval and file integrity. It does not mean that an automated process independently confirmed every statement in the source.

Source and tier basis: https://www.fiscales.gob.ar/trata/mar-del-plata-24-anos-y-medio-de-prision-para-el-lider-de-una-secta-religiosa/ Corpus classification: prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 babeb27d1337ebc751f5fa79697c6389373e3decebd1585f1fbc715e7d5bb939
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://quedigital.com.ar/judiciales/casacion-confirmo-la-condena-contra-el-pastor-isaias-hurtado-y-su-pareja/ Corpus classification: contemporaneous-court-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-disposition-report. SHA-256 ddf3f7e729136c93f7f950dc9f5f69f9e6b2b3c708c0c16632445cb20a764371
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://www.cij.gov.ar/scp/d/sentencia-SGU-51869d90-68c0-4795-ab14-a17469ba592d.pdf Corpus classification: court; evidentiary role: sentence-execution-order. SHA-256 0884bceab8574e65b7acc4751d5c4d19d0d54d0a6f10e580d320d0024f9801a4
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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