Germany: self-declared prophet convicted on 132 counts against a girl raised in his sect
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self-declared prophet and leader of the 'Orde der Transformanten'
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Orde der Transformanten
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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
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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
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- national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report t-online: 'Selbsternannter Prophet: Sektenführer wegen sexuellen Missbrauchs verurteilt'.
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- https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/kriminalitaet/id_91402910/selbsternannter-prophet-sektenfuehrer-wegen-sexuellen-missbrauchs-verurteilt.html Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 87d175514f53f09844d13931242d9cb7e8aeff114c09e29cb3644cec96a359aa
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