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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil · 2022

Brazil: pastor sentenced to 40 years for sexual violation by fraud of nine congregants

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

evangelical pastor

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The court's charge itself encodes the mechanism: fraud through the ministerial role — the victims submitted to what they believed were prayer and spiritual acts by their pastor.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Spiritual healing or treatment

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2022-11-01 · conviction and sentence

    Justiça de Santa Catarina (TJSC), Brazil. A 53-year-old evangelical pastor in Tubarão was sentenced to 40 years for sexual violation by fraud (violação sexual mediante fraude) against nine victims — eight women, including two minors, and one man — committed between 2011 and 2021 under the pretext of prayer and spiritual support, inside the church, in victims' homes and elsewhere. He was denied the right to appeal at liberty.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • libidinous acts committed under the pretext of prayer and spiritual support
  • exploitation of congregants' religious trust in his ministry

Primary record

Sources

official judiciary release verdict and sentencing report Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina, 'Pastor de Tubarão é condenado a 40 anos de prisão por violação sexual mediante fraude' (2022).

The state judiciary's own release on the conviction, counts and sentence.

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