Ecuador: pastor sentenced to 13 years for abusing a girl from age ten in the pastoral residence
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pastor of a Christian church
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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
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Proceedings
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
Cited 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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- https://www.fiscalia.gob.ec/13-anos-de-prision-para-pastor-cristiano-por-abuso-sexual/ Corpus classification: official-prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: conviction-release. SHA-256 d02032286070b4dd9d8fbd985a7bdca8af8edf52b89ff177db3bfcb2c8a9c43d
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