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Conviction New religious movements Messianic / communal movement Goch, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · 2021

Germany: self-declared prophet convicted on 132 counts against a girl raised in his sect

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-declared prophet and leader of the 'Orde der Transformanten'

Organization

Orde der Transformanten

Spiritual nexus

A child raised inside a prophet's authority structure — the community's belief in him was the architecture of her availability.

  • Prophecy or divine command
  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2021-12-30 · conviction and sentence; acquittal on the deprivation-of-liberty counts

    Landgericht Kleve, Germany. On 30 December 2021 the Kleve regional court convicted Robert B. — the self-declared prophet of the 'Orde der Transformanten' — of sexual abuse in 132 cases, sixty-four of them severe child sexual abuse, against a girl of his faith community abused from her minority onward in the Netherlands and at the sect's former-monastery compound at Goch. He received five years and was acquitted of the unlawful-imprisonment counts.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • the sect's prophetic authority structure in which the victim was raised
  • the group's former-monastery compound as a closed setting

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report t-online: 'Selbsternannter Prophet: Sektenführer wegen sexuellen Missbrauchs verurteilt'.

National outlet's court report.

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