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Charged Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Asturias, Cebu, Philippines · 2022

Philippines: self-styled 'Dios Amahan' healer charged with raping patients held at his temple

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Charged

Authority role

self-proclaimed 'Dios Amahan' (God the Father), faith healer and temple leader

Organization

Dios Amahan (Asturias sect)

Spiritual nexus

Feriol drew patients with claimed divine healing power, then told them their recovery obligated them to a 'spiritual duty' fulfilled by residing at his temple, where the assaults are alleged to have occurred — the healing claim is what put the victims inside his physical control.

  • Spiritual healing or treatment
  • Threatened spiritual consequence

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2022-05-12 · arrest warrant executed; non-bailable charges pending

    Regional Trial Court Branch 8, Toledo City, Philippines. Teodoro Rico Feriol, known as 'Brod Doring' and self-styled 'Dios Amahan,' was arrested by the NBI on an arrest warrant issued by Judge Judilyn Menchavez over the rape of a 16-year-old girl and a 32-year-old woman between 2020 and 2021. He was charged under Article 266-A (RA 8353, the Anti-Rape Law) and RA 7610 (child abuse); the charges are non-bailable. No trial verdict was locatable in the accessible record.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • claimed divine healing powers
  • framing sexual submission as a 'spiritual obligation' owed after being healed
  • requiring patients to reside at his temple for months as part of the claimed obligation

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting arrest and charging report "'Faith healer' accused of raping patients nabbed", Manila Bulletin, 13 May 2022.

Reports the NBI-Central Visayas arrest of Feriol in Asturias, Cebu, the claimed healing powers used to draw victims to his temple, the 'spiritual obligation' pretext used to hold them there, and the rape and child-abuse charges filed under RA 8353 and RA 7610.

national newspaper court reporting complaint filing report "Faith healer 'rapes' patients, tells them it's 'spiritual duty'", The Freeman (Philstar Cebu), 2 Dec. 2021.

Earlier complaint-filing report describing the same 'Dios Amahan' pretext of framing rape as a spiritual duty owed by healed patients.

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