Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Nahuizalco, Sonsonate, El Salvador · 2023

Edwin Analberto Pérez González: twenty-year sentence after church-work grooming

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor, director of the church attended by the survivor

Organization

unnamed church in Nahuizalco

Archive classification

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

The cited record identifies church administrative-work pretext, pastoral authority, congregational 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 director of the church attended by the survivor.

Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2023-06-12 · trial judgment and sentence

First Trial Court of Sonsonate, El Salvador. The court convicted Pérez González of continuous rape of a twelve-year-old congregant and imposed twenty years in prison plus civil compensation.

Documented coercion mechanisms

church administrative-work pretext
pastoral authority
congregational trust
private access to a child

Cited record

Sources

prosecuting authority judgment report Fiscalía General de la República de El Salvador, 'Pastor es condenado a 20 años de cárcel por violar a adolescente' (June 12, 2023).: The official prosecution report records the conviction and sentence and states that the pastor directed the child's church and used requests for church reports to bring her to his home.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.fiscalia.gob.sv/pastor-es-condenado-a-20-anos-de-carcel-por-violar-a-adolescente/ Corpus classification: prosecuting-authority; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 dc6da69fca67aa8dfc9643ac52190360eb3b49c2452b07499eab2913c0c77357
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