Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Guatemala City, Guatemala · 2020

Guatemala: pastor convicted of producing child sexual-abuse material of a girl who came to him for help

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor of the 'Evangelio Completo' church, zona 18

Organization

Iglesia Evangelio Completo, Santa Elena II, zona 18

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A girl who came to a pastor for help, because he was a pastor.

Pastoral or clerical authority

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Proceedings

2020-10-01 · conviction and sentence

Guatemalan tribunal (Fiscalía contra la Trata de Personas prosecution). Edgar Giovanni Ola Fernández, pastor of an 'Evangelio Completo' church in Guatemala City's zona 18, was sentenced on 1 October 2020 to seven non-commutable years plus a Q50,000 fine for producing child sexual-abuse material of a fifteen-year-old girl in poverty who had come to him for psychological and educational help.

Documented coercion mechanisms

religious-leader standing over a fifteen-year-old in poverty who sought his help

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Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Publinews: conviction of the zona 18 pastor.: National court reporting.
official prosecutor release sentencing release Ministerio Público release (indexed; intermittently unreachable).: The prosecuting authority's release.
official prosecutor release sentencing release Ministerio Público de Guatemala release, archived 22 Mar. 2023.: The prosecuting authority's own release, recovered from the Wayback Machine after the live server became unreachable.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.publinews.gt/gt/noticias/2020/10/04/guatemala-condena-pastor-evangelico-pornografia-infantil.html Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 8db2e63f9d3bd15a0c10fb9b679c39814684f9909dad7379bb71778200c4bafc
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://www.mp.gob.gt/noticia/dictan-condena-de-7-anos-de-prision-inconmutables-contra-pastor-evangelico-por-produccion-de-pornografia-infantil/ Corpus classification: official-prosecutor-release; evidentiary role: sentencing-release.
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Source and tier basis: http://web.archive.org/web/20230322122920/https://www.mp.gob.gt/noticia/dictan-condena-de-7-anos-de-prision-inconmutables-contra-pastor-evangelico-por-produccion-de-pornografia-infantil/ Corpus classification: official-prosecutor-release; evidentiary role: sentencing-release. SHA-256 27eab90c1cc53e848cbd7c447233668dbd2b56a0abf7f18932195f6159a687f7
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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