Manuel Quijano Vega: sixteen-year sentence in a child congregant case
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
pastor, longstanding religious leader of the survivor's family
Organization
unnamed church in Soyapango
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The cited record identifies congregational trust, pastoral access to a child and family, continued harassment after family warning, and physical abduction as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is pastor and longstanding religious leader of the survivor's family.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2021-07-13 · trial judgment and sentence
Sixth Trial Court of San Salvador, El Salvador. The court convicted Quijano Vega of aggravated rape and sexual harassment of a child and imposed eleven years for rape and five years for harassment.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- congregational trust
- pastoral access to a child and family
- continued harassment after family warning
- physical abduction
Cited record
Sources
- prosecuting authority judgment report Fiscalía General de la República de El Salvador, 'Pastor evangélico es condenado por Violación, en Soyapango' (July 13, 2021).
The official prosecution report records the conviction, sentence, survivor's church membership, the family's warning after earlier harassment and the later aggravated rape.
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- https://www.fiscalia.gob.sv/pastor-evangelico-es-condenado-por-violacion-en-soyapango/ Corpus classification: prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 fbc78f18273f7f88a64642a6c1d23dd2e9a0a0eebbc00843060e4d7fc3e1a1a5
- Retrieval
- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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