Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil · 2023

Tubarão pastor: forty-year sentence for thirteen acts framed as prayer

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

evangelical pastor, spiritual-support provider

Organization

unnamed evangelical church in Tubarão

Archive classification

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

The cited record identifies sexual acts presented as prayer, faith and pastoral trust, private spiritual support, congregational submission, and institutional victim-blaming as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is evangelical pastor and spiritual-support provider.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Sacred sex, purity, or sexual-energy claim

Evidence structure

Proceedings

Date in cited record · first-instance judgment reported April 2023

Second Criminal Court of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The court sentenced the defendant to forty years and twenty days in closed custody for thirteen instances of sexual violation by fraud against nine victims, and ordered moral-damages payments. He was denied release pending appeal.

Documented coercion mechanisms

sexual acts presented as prayer
faith and pastoral trust
private spiritual support
congregational submission
institutional victim-blaming

Cited record

Sources

court first instance judgment report Court of Justice of Santa Catarina, 'Pastor de Tubarão é condenado a 40 anos de prisão por violação sexual mediante fraude' (Apr. 12, 2023).: The official court report records the first-instance sentence, thirteen offenses, nine victims and damages. It describes sexual acts presented as prayer during private spiritual support, extreme submission to the pastor and the church's defense of the defendant and demonization of victims.

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