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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico · 2022

Mexico: religious preacher convicted of aggravated sexual abuse of two children in Oaxaca's Cuenca region

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

religious preacher ('predicador religioso'), San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

A preacher used his religious standing within the community to gain access to child victims; the Oaxaca prosecutor's office withheld the defendant's full identity in its own release, so this record follows the official designation.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2022-01-22 · conviction

    Juzgado de Proceso, Fiscalía General del Estado de Oaxaca. A religious preacher identified by the Oaxaca Attorney General's Office only by the initials M.A.T.O. was convicted by the Court of Proceedings of aggravated sexual abuse against two minors, committed in January 2019 in San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, in Oaxaca's Cuenca region, and sentenced to six years in prison plus fines and damages exceeding 48,000 pesos. The defendant's full name was withheld by the prosecuting authority in its public reporting.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • preacher's standing within the congregation used to access child victims

Primary record

Sources

state prosecutor press release report sentencing report 'Predicador religioso es condenado a seis años de prisión por abuso sexual en Oaxaca', El Imparcial, 22 ene. 2022.

State wire report reproducing the Fiscalía General del Estado de Oaxaca press release verbatim, including the initials-only identification and sentence.

regional newspaper court reporting sentencing report 'Por abuso sexual contra dos menores en Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, condenan a religioso a seis años de prisión', El Universal Oaxaca.

Corroborating regional coverage of the same sentencing.

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