Conviction Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Spiritual healing and mediumship Santa Catarina, Brazil · 2019

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

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Appellate history

2019

Sentence increased from 8 years to 9 years 4 months.

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor and benzedeiro (faith healer) making home visits

Organization

No organization assigned

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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.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Spiritual healing or treatment

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.

Documented coercion mechanisms

a family's trust in his dual role as pastor and healer
home visits in a healing capacity

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Sources

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

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Source and tier basis: https://www.tjsc.jus.br/web/imprensa/-/justica-aumenta-pena-a-pastor-e-benzedeiro-condenado-por-estupro-de-vulneravel Corpus classification: official-court-release; evidentiary role: appellate-outcome-release. SHA-256 e737d325ac211d348a37847e48f12801f280f900c9edde680c285984fcc4a3f6
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