Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Santa Catarina, Brazil · 2019

Brazil: sentence increased on appeal for a pastor and faith healer who abused a seven-year-old

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor and benzedeiro (faith healer) making home visits

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The dual authority is the point: the family opened the door to a man who was both their pastor and their healer, and the visits were the access.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2019-01-01 · conviction; sentence increased on appeal

Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina, 4ª Câmara Criminal (Des. Zanini Fornerolli). A ninety-year-old pastor and benzedeiro was convicted of estupro de vulnerável against a seven-year-old child whose family had received him in their home in his healing capacity. On appeal in 2019 the Santa Catarina high court increased his sentence from eight years to nine years and four months.

Primary record

official court release appellate outcome release Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina: appellate release.: The appellate court's own release.

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