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Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Munich, Bavaria, Germany · 2023

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

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-styled shaman and 'Wunderheiler' treating a family

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

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

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 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.

Appellate history

  1. 2024-04-30 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

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

Primary record

Sources

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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