Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Singapore · 2020

Ab Razak Ab Hameed: fifteen-month sentence for abuse during claimed protection and exorcism rituals

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-presented spiritual healer and exorcist

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Ab Razak claimed he could protect one adult from black magic and exorcise possession from another. He used those diagnoses and ritual instructions to obtain isolation, closed eyes and access to exposed bodies before the offenses covered by his guilty pleas.

Curse or witchcraft threat
Exorcism or deliverance
Spiritual healing or treatment

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2020-07-09 · guilty pleas and sentence

State Courts of Singapore. Ab Razak pleaded guilty to two molestation counts and two counts of insulting modesty and received fifteen months' imprisonment; five similar charges involving two other complainants were considered at sentencing.

Documented coercion mechanisms

claimed protection from black magic
possession diagnosis
exorcism pretext
instructions to close eyes and isolate from an accompanying relative
nonconsensual recording

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting criminal disposition The Straits Times, '15 months' jail for spiritual healer who molested two women under pretext of performing rituals' (July 9, 2020).: Detailed sentencing reporting records the guilty pleas, sentence, additional charges taken into consideration, black-magic protection claim, possession diagnosis, exorcism instructions and nonconsensual recording.

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