Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Kingston, Jamaica · 2022

Oraine Ellis: rape conviction upheld after church counselling pretext

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor and preacher, religious counsellor to a child congregant

Organization

unnamed church in Jamaica

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The cited record identifies altar counselling, anointing ritual, promise of blessing, pastoral trust, and private access to a child as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is pastor and preacher and religious counsellor to a child congregant.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Ritual, oath, or initiation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2015-11-13 · jury verdict and sentence

Jamaican trial court. A jury convicted Ellis of rape. The court imposed twenty years' imprisonment.
2022-03-18 · appeal judgment

Court of Appeal of Jamaica. The court refused the conviction appeal and clarified the sentence as twenty years with thirteen years and eleven months before parole eligibility, subject to remand credit.

Documented coercion mechanisms

altar counselling
anointing ritual
promise of blessing
pastoral trust
private access to a child

Cited record

Sources

court appellate judgment Court of Appeal of Jamaica, Ellis (Oraine) v R, [2022] JMCA Crim 8 (Mar. 18, 2022).: The appellate judgment records the conviction, sentence and refusal of the appeal. It recounts evidence that Ellis invited a fifteen-year-old congregant to the altar, anointed her, asked intimate questions, offered counselling and said he would bless her before the assault; it also addresses the abuse of pastoral trust.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.courtofappeal.gov.jm/sites/default/files/judgments/Ellis%20%28Oraine%29%20v%20R.pdf Corpus classification: court; evidentiary role: appellate-judgment. SHA-256 92de9d964a150ec88f6c1664f112c235f9f9a759ae031a6dc7a7f979670d67da
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