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Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Yesera San Sebastián, Tarija, Bolivia · 2021

Yesera curandero: twelve-year sentence for assaults committed under cleansing-ritual claims

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-presented curandero, purported spiritual-cleansing practitioner

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The cited record identifies claim that a family was bewitched, spiritual-cleansing pretext, payment demands, and healing access to family members as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is self-presented curandero and purported spiritual-cleansing practitioner.

  • Spiritual healing or treatment
  • Curse or witchcraft threat

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. Date in cited record · conviction and sentence reported June 2021

    criminal court in Tarija, Bolivia. An unnamed man who presented himself as a curandero received a twelve-year prison sentence for sexual abuse and related conduct involving two adolescents and an adult woman.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • claim that a family was bewitched
  • spiritual-cleansing pretext
  • payment demands
  • healing access to family members

Primary record

Sources

contemporaneous reporting sentencing report El País, 'Dan 12 años de cárcel a curandero acusado de abuso sexual en Yesera-Tarija' (June 25, 2021).

Local court reporting quotes the municipal legal-service attorney and records the twelve-year sentence, the curandero role, three survivors, claims that the family was bewitched, payment demands and touching presented as spiritual cures.

local reporting disposition corroboration El Gran Chaco, 'Cinco hombres fueron sentenciados por violación y abuso en Tarija' (June 30, 2021).

Independent local reporting attributes the result to Tarija's municipal child-protection office and corroborates that a curandero received twelve years for abusing two children in a rural community of the municipality.

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