Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Magetan, East Java, Indonesia · 2024

Indonesia: repeat-offender dukun convicted of raping five minors via a spirit-pregnancy hoax

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-styled dukun

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The entire scheme ran on manufactured supernatural dread: the spirit-pregnancy diagnosis created the affliction only his 'treatment' could cure.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2024-01-01 · conviction and sentence

Pengadilan Negeri Magetan, Indonesia. A man identified as ABP, 40, posing as a dukun, was convicted of coercing at least five underage victims into sending explicit images and having sex with him as purported treatment after falsely telling them, via social media, that they had been impregnated by a genderuwo spirit. A repeat offender with a prior eight-year sentence for a similar scheme, he received fourteen years and an 800-million-rupiah fine.

Primary record

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Dukun pemerkosa 5 anak di Magetan divonis 14 tahun', Detik Jatim (2024), corroborated by Dandapala.: Reports the conviction, the genderuwo scheme, and the recidivism.

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