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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Barcarena, Pará, Brazil · 2024

Brazil: pastor sentenced to ninety-one years for abusing five boys of his congregation

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor of a congregation in Barcarena

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Five small boys of the congregation, reached through the office their families trusted.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2024-01-01 · conviction and sentence

    Comarca de Barcarena, Tribunal de Justiça do Pará (Juiz Iran Ferreira Sampaio). Anderson Cleiton de Sousa Gomes, a pastor in Barcarena, was convicted of estupro de vulnerável against five boys aged between five and nine, all reached through his position in the congregation, and sentenced to ninety-one years and eight days in closed regime.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral standing used to reach boys of the congregation aged five to nine

Primary record

Sources

official court release verdict and sentencing release Tribunal de Justiça do Pará: 'Pastor é condenado a 91 anos por estupro de vulnerável'.

The convicting court's own release.

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