Conviction Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Traditional healing practitioners Munich, Bavaria, Germany · 2023

Germany: self-styled shaman convicted of raping a girl 'treated' under spiritual therapy — final at the Federal Court

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Appellate history

2024-04-30

Revision rejected (1 StR 423/23) — rechtskräftig.

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Convicted

Authority role

self-styled shaman and 'Wunderheiler' treating a family

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Textbook: his claimed healing power over the family is precisely what delivered the child into his hands, and the German statute on abuse within treatment relationships names that mechanism.

Spiritual healing or treatment

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Proceedings

2023-06-14 · conviction; final after the Federal Court of Justice

Landgericht München II; Bundesgerichtshof (1 StR 423/23). On 14 June 2023 the Munich II regional court convicted a sixty-four-year-old self-styled shaman of two counts of rape combined with abuse exploiting a treatment relationship, sexual abuse of a juvenile, and dangerous assault — he had pushed the girl from a roughly three-metre cliff into a reservoir. The victim, fourteen, had been delivered to him for 'spiritual therapy' after he manipulated and isolated her family. He received six years and ten months; the Federal Court of Justice rejected his appeal on 30 April 2024, making the judgment final.

Documented coercion mechanisms

claimed spiritual-healing authority over patient and family
manipulation and isolation of the family to secure access to the child

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official court release verdict and sentencing release Bayerische Justiz: press release on the LG München II judgment.: The judiciary's own release.
official court release final appellate disposition Bundesgerichtshof press release, 30 Apr. 2024.: Confirms the final rejection of the appeal.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.justiz.bayern.de/gerichte-und-behoerden/oberlandesgerichte/muenchen/presse/2023/33.php Corpus classification: official-court-release; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-release. SHA-256 9f5dcbf2067138f3c1250b0530f970f1f600c4e21bae5c390a5a311c420a41a9
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Source and tier basis: https://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2024/2024103.html Corpus classification: official-court-release; evidentiary role: final-appellate-disposition. SHA-256 c01e233f2ca289ea301218642b708e72d36dfeb71456430e6c44ba9b924c7649
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