Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela · 2024

Venezuela: pastor sentenced to 16 years for abusing five children at services held in his home

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor running an evangelical service in his own home

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The children were attending an evangelical service the defendant himself led in his home; his position running that service is what brought them into the house and let him isolate them.

Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2024-01-01 · conviction and sentence

Tribunal Quinto de Juicio, Sucre state, Venezuela. José Ysrrael Díaz Canache, 47, was convicted of rape and sexual abuse of especially vulnerable victims and sentenced to 16 years and 8 months. He abused five children aged eight to twelve in May 2024, using money or force, while they attended an evangelical service he held in his own home. He admitted the abuse.

Documented coercion mechanisms

position running the service the children attended
money and force used to compel them

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Condenan a 16 años de prisión a pastor evangélico que abusó de cinco niños en Cumaná', Notitarde (Venezuela).: Venezuelan outlet reporting the conviction, the sentence, the court, and the home-service setting in which the offences occurred.

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