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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Salinas, Santa Elena, Ecuador · 2023

Ecuador: pastor sentenced to 13 years for abusing a girl from age ten in the pastoral residence

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor of a Christian church

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The complainant belonged to a family in the defendant's congregation, and the abuse occurred in the church's own pastoral residence — the position and the premises it gave him were the mechanism.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Religious marriage or family control

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2023-10-01 · conviction and sentence

    Ecuadorian criminal court, Santa Elena. A pastor identified in official reporting as Ebert Enrique A. A. was sentenced to 13 years and 4 months, with a fine and $4,500 in reparations, for sexually abusing a girl of his congregation beginning when she was ten years old, in the church's pastoral residence.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • abuse normalised to the child as ordinary conduct between couples
  • false promise of marriage
  • use of the church's pastoral residence

Primary record

Sources

official prosecuting authority conviction release Fiscalía General del Estado (Ecuador), '13 años de prisión para pastor cristiano por abuso sexual' (2023).

Ecuador's prosecuting authority records the conviction, the sentence, the reparations order, and the pastoral-residence setting.

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