Conviction Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Traditional healing practitioners Criciúma region, Santa Catarina, Brazil · 2024

Brazil: religious leader sentenced to 45 years for sexual crimes against four women seeking spiritual help

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self-styled religious/spiritual leader

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The victims sought him out for spiritual support, and the court found the sexual acts were extracted as purported ritual requirements — the claimed spiritual authority is the instrument throughout.

Spiritual healing or treatment
Other spiritual authority or belief

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2024-01-01 · conviction and sentence

Justiça de Santa Catarina (TJSC), Brazil. A religious leader in southern Santa Catarina was sentenced to 45 years in closed regime for rape, sexual violation by fraud and harassment against four emotionally vulnerable women during 2023, committed under the pretext that ritual or spiritual work required sexual acts. In one case he suffocated a victim to stop her calling for help.

Documented coercion mechanisms

claims that ritual or spiritual work required sexual acts
targeting of emotionally vulnerable women seeking religious support

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official judiciary release verdict and sentencing report Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina, 'Líder religioso é condenado a 45 anos por crimes sexuais contra fiéis no sul de SC' (2024).: The state judiciary's release on the conviction and 45-year closed-regime sentence.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.tjsc.jus.br/web/imprensa/-/lider-religioso-e-condenado-a-45-anos-por-crimes-sexuais-contra-fieis-no-sul-de-sc- Corpus classification: official-judiciary-release; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 071df6f9170e4c9aebedc1519d8a299f18dfd13cb311fad1e7fe1187a542e013
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